RP Facts Flashcards
What do we use to make sense of what we see around us? What is this referred to?
We use our observations and our minds.
This is our evidence
Who developed the cosmological argument?
Thomas Aquinas
What is the Cosmological argument also known as?
The First Cause argument
What is the cosmological argument?
It is an attempt to prove the existence of God by the fact that things exist. It assumes that things must have a cause.
Nothing would be in existence without a First Cause that caused everything else. There needs to be a starting point.
What did Aquinas believe?
He believed that the first cause that caused all things was God
Who said God was created by our own imagination?
Ludwig Feuerbach
What did Feuerbach believe?
He believed that humans invented God to comfort them like a father
Who developed the argument from Design and Purpose for the existence of God?
William Paley
How did William Paley explain his argument?
He used the analogy of a watch.
He said that if someone saw a rock on the ground, they would not need to ask how the rock got there - they would assume natural causes but if it was a watch, they would assume it had a purpose and a design and that someone had put it there and said that the watch was like the Earth and sun.
What is the name of a promise between god and the people
Covenant
What did god ask Abraham to do
To sacrifice Isaac to show his devotion
Where was god while he spoke to Moses
In a Burning Bush
What was the last plague that god sent to the Egyptians
The death of the Egyptian first born
What is Passover
A celebration of the story of Exodus
What did god give Moses
The Ten Commandments: one god, no idols, don’t say ‘god’ in vain, do nothing on Sunday, honour your parents, don’t kill, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie and treat your neighbours how you want to be treated.
