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Section 1 Flashcards

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How does infant baptism lead to belief in God?

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Parents will promise to bring up their children as Christians and encourage them to believe in God.
Young children follow their parents example.

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What are prayers to Christian children?

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Children are often encouraged to talk to God, to thank him for the good and ask him for help on the bad things.

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How to prayers lead to belief in God?

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Children will grow up with the belief that God is listening to them.
They may believe that God has answered their prayers.

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What happens during bible stories?

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Children are encouraged to read the Bible, beginning with picture books that re-tell the stories in a simple way.

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How do bible stories lead to belief in God?

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Children learn stories from the Bible

They learn that God has always been involved in history

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What happens when a Christian goes to church?

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Christian families often attend a ‘Family Service’ at church

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How does going to Church lead to belief in God?

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Children are surrounded by fellow Christians who all believe the same thing.
Seeing others pray and worship God is likely to make them think that God must exist

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What happens during Christian festivals?

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Families celebrate Easter and Christmas and other important events such as Lent (before Easter) and Advent (before Christmas)

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What happens during Sunday School?

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Most churches run special classes for children to teach them Christian belief and how to live a Christian life

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How do festivals lead to belief in God?

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Children are taught the Christian meaning of Easter and Christmas and celebrate it in Church, sharing in everyone’s happiness

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How do Sunday schools lead to belief in God?

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Learning in more detail about God, Jesus and the Bible helps to back up what a child’s parents taught them.

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What happens during Church School?

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Most churches are owned or party-owned by the church and they encourage worship in assemblies and Christian teaching in RE.

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What is infant baptism?

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Christian parents are likely to have their children baptised. As part of this sacrament water is sprinkled on the baby’s head as a symbol of God taking away their sins.

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How does church school lead to belief in God?

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Children and young people continue to be surrounded by Christians at school.
Belief in God is still seen as normal.
Pupils are likely to believe it if their teachers tell them it’s true.

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What is a first communion?

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The Sacrament of confirmation involves lessons from the Priest about Christianity and the nature of God

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How does a first communion lead to belief in God?

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Children learn more about God in their confirmation lessons and possibly have a religious experience when the bishop lays his hands on you.

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What is a youth club?

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Many Churches run youth clubs where young people can have fun and attend Christian events together.

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How does a youth club lead to belief in God?

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Young people are surrounded by others teenagers with the same beliefs

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What is confirmation?

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As part of fulfilling their vows at baptism, Christian parents are likely to encourage their children to be confirmed as full members of the Church.

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How does confirmation lead to belief in God?

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The sacrament of Confirmation involves lessons from the Priest/Minster, about Christianity and the nature of God

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Definition of a mystical experience

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An experience of the divine, which is difficult to describe

E.g. Hearing Gods voice or seeing a vision

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Definition a conversion experience

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The feeling that there is something inside you wanting you to change your life and believe in God.
It is sometimes called a regenerative experience because it gives you a feeling of being born again.
- Paul converted

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Definition of a charismatic experience

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An experience where the Holy Spirit descends upon you, for example , speaking in tongues, prophecy or healing

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Definition of a near-death experience

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An experience of God when in the process of dying or having died, but then being resuscitated
- Drowning/Seeing the light

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Definition of prayer

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All religious believers think that they can make contact with God through prayer. Prayer can be formal or informal
- The Lord’s Prayer

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Definition of a miracle

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A belief that prayers are answered or that an act of God has occurred. It is a event that seems to break the laws of science and can therefore only be explained by God
- Someones who’s heart stopped beating has come back to life

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Definition of a numinous experience

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A feeling of great wonder, where you feel there is something greater than yourself, which you can only call God. It is often described as an experience of the transcendence
- Looking up at the stars and feeling like you are a tiny piece of a big puddle

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Arguments for the Design Argument

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Evidence of design 
- the eye
The Fibonacci sequence
- present in nature, perfect form, must have been designed
Metaphor/example is understandable
- the watch 
Only God could have created this
- to create this you must be omnibenevolent
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Arguments against the Design Argument

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Inductive leap
- the conclusion that makes God made everything is not supported by the premises
Darwin
- things made due to evolution E.g. The eye
- survival of the fittest, why would God create something to die out?
Dawkins
- the universe does not need to have a purpose
- everything happened due to evolution
David Hume
- world created and things happen by chance E.g. Monkey keyboard = Epicurian thesis
John Stuart Mill
- why would God create a universe with flaws?
- Sun which causes massive cancer to humans.

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Arguments for the Cosmological/Causation Argument

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Explains why the universe exists 
Explains how God exists 
It is a clear argument 
- something could not come from nothing 
Ties in with science 
Goes with the Big Bang Theory 
Attributes of God, omnipotent, eternal
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Arguments against the Cosmological/Causation Argument

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Inductive leap
Contradicts itself 
- who caused God?
Assumes a starting point 
Assumes God is eternal 
Series of uncaused causes
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Is it the responsibility of the media to provide a fair and religious outcome?

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If someone is prepared to put forward their views, they must be prepared to be contradicted
- Richard Dawkins must be prepared for people to disagree and hate him

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How can the media influence a person’s belief in God?

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Make people think that religion is fun and community orientated
- The Vicar of Dibly promotes Christianity as a thing of happiness and community

The media has power to make people agree/believe with someone or a religion, hate a religion or convert their views
- the news

They use stereotypes/mockery/comedy
- The Book of Mormon

The media feeds of people’s insecurities
- the news, Islamic state

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Is the way religion is portrayed in the media fair?

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The media portrays the news in a negative light, always focus on the bad, ‘shock sells ‘
- News only focus on IS attack not the beauty of Islam

Some social media use their platform to celebrate multicultural festivals
- Snapchat ‘live broadcast’ Eid,Diwali

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How might miracles lead people to lose faith in God?

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Inconsistent triad/the problem of evil
If he’s all loving how could he allow bad things to happen
In the same situation, why does he only give a miracle to some people and not everyone?

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How do miracles lead people to believe in God?

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It breaks the laws of science = must be God

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Explain Irenaeus’ theodicy

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Suffering is necessary for improvement of human souls through character building
- Courage and resilience
The world is a ‘vale of soul making’
We are in an immature moral state, though we have potential for moral perfection
God gave us free will. Evil and suffering are as a result of that.

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Explain Augustine’s theodicy

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God is perfect and created a perfect world
- In the Bible he says that he saw his created and declared that ‘it was good’
When Adam and Eve are the apple from the ‘Tree of knowledge’ they ruined human perfection
As a result evil is not Gods fault, it is as a result of human temptation
- Classical theistic view still works

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Simple Christian responses to evil and suffering

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Pain is a punishment for the bad things we do
- Augustine
Pain is a test of our faith in God
- Job in the Old Testament
- Irenaeus
We learn from pain
- Irenaeus
Evil and suffering are as a result of free will
- Irenaeus, moral evil is derived from human free will and disobedience

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What does prayer mean to religious believers?

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They can communicate with God
They can listen to God
‘Power of Prayer’ prayer brings them closer to God
Learning through reflection

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How does prayer help affirm belief in God?

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Confirms good relationship with God

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How do Christians respond to the problems of unanswered prayers?

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They say that he does answers but in unexpected ways
God doesn’t interfere in day-to-day problems
Communicating with God helps us find answers in ourselves
Prayer is a test of faith

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Why do unanswered prayers lead people away from God?

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Being let down by God
Not feeling God’s presence can make people question God’s existence
Can lead people to be agnostic or atheist

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How might atheists use unanswered prays as evidence for God’s non-existence?

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If he was all good + powerful he would’ve responded

God doesn’t exist so obviously he won’t answer

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What are the conclusions of the Problem of Evil?

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God doesn’t exist

He isn’t of the classical theistic view

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What is the belief behind creationism?

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The universe and life originated from ‘specific acts of divine creation’.
God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.

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Christian responses to the Big Bang Theory

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Many Christians have no problem in accepting the Big Bang theory. They see the cosmologists helping them to understand how God brought the world into being - the Big Bang could have been the mechanism God used. And there is nothing in the theory itself which proves that there is no such being as God.

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Evidence behind the Big Bang Theory

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All the galaxies and moving away from us, the further away and Galaxy is the faster it is moving away.
These two features are found in explosions
Scientists discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (redshift = the displacement of spectral lines towards longer wavelengths in radiation from distant galaxies and celestial objects) received from all parts of the universe it is thought that the heat leftover from the original explosion.

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