Test 1 Quiz

Question 1

Name 3 important parts of a child’s upbringing if they are raised by Christian parents.

Answer 1

Christened 
Church
Pray
Celebrate religious festivals 
Sunday school
Church school.

Question 2

Explain how baptism can lead to belief in God.

Answer 2

Baptism- parents promise to bring up their children as Christian’s and teach them about God. If their parents believe in God then they have no reason to doubt he exists.

Question 3

What are the 4 types of religious experience?

Answer 3

The numinous
Conversion
Miracle
Answered prayer

Question 4

What does the numinous mean?

Answer 4

The feeling of the presence of something greater than you.

Question 5

Give an example of a conversion experience.

Answer 5

Nicky Cruz.

Question 6

What is the definition of a miracle?

Answer 6

Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it.

Question 7

What evidence of design is there in he world?

Answer 7

Laws of science
DNA
Evolution
Beauty of nature

Question 8

How does the example of Paleys watch argument help to explain that God made the world?

Answer 8

You cannot say a watch appears by chance it must be designed by a watch maker. Therefore the universe, which is more complicated, must need a universe maker. The only being that could design the world is God so god must exist.

Question 9

Give one problem with the design argument:

Answer 9

The argument ignores the evidence if lack of the universe, for example natural disasters such as volcanoes earthquake and hurricanes.

Question 10

What does causation mean?

Answer 10

The idea that everything has been caused by something else.

Question 11

How does the idea of causation lead to someone’s belief in God?

Answer 11

If we look at things in the world we see they have a cause. Anything caused to exist must be caused by something else. Therefore the universe itself must have a cause. Only God could be the cause of the universe. Therefore god is the first cause and must exist.

Question 12

Give one problem with the idea of causation

Answer 12

Why should the causes stop at God? If everything needs a cause then God must need a cause.

Question 13

Give the % of the worlds population that belong to a religion and therefore believe in God.

Answer 13

86%

Question 14

Do you believe that God created the universe?

Answer 14

I do not believe that God created the universe because Science can explain where the world and humans came from without any reference to God. As well as this, I have been brought up in an Atheist family thus I haven’t been brought up believing that there’s a God and that he created the world.

Question 15

How does science explain where the world and life came from?

Answer 15

The Big Bang and the Theory of Evolution.

Question 16

How could the scientific explanation lead to agnosticism?

Answer 16

Agnostics look at how science can explain where the world and humans came from without any reference to God yet religion says that God created everything so some people are not sure what to believe; science or religion.

Question 17

How can the scientific explanation lead to atheism?

Answer 17

They are sure there is no God. The scientific explanation of the world and humans, without any reference to God, is proof to such people that God does not exist.

Question 18

Give one way in which Christians may respond to the scientific explanations of the origins of the world.

Answer 18

Many Christians believe that the scientific explanation proves that God created the universe:- the Big Bang had to be exactly the right microsecond- there had to be scientific laws such as gravity for the matter of the universe to form solar systems and only God could have made the laws on which they were based- Life on Earth required carbon to be able to bond with four other atoms and water molecules. This could not have happened by chance so god must have ensured that it happened.

Question 19

Why might unanswered prayers lead to some people not believing in God?

Answer 19

Atheists are confident that if God existed, and was omnibenevolent and omniscient then surely everyone’s prayers would be answered.

Many people experience suffering and pain in their lives or watch as family and friends suffer, and God seems to do nothing.

Question 20

Give one way in which Christians may respond to this idea of unanswered prayers.

Answer 20

If what you pray for is selfish, for example “please God help me to pass this exam” it would be wrong of God to allow you to pass the exam if you had not revised for it. So God is answering your prayer by encouraging you to work hard for what you want to achieve.

Question 21

Name the 2 forms of evil and suffering.

Answer 21

Moral and natural.

Question 22

Give 2 examples of moral evil.

Answer 22

Murder

Rape

Question 23

Give 2 examples of natural evil.

Answer 23

Hurricane

Volcanoes

Question 24

Some people do not believe in God because they think that there would be no evil and suffering in a world created by a Good and powerful God. What argument do they use to show this?

Answer 24

They believe that God is omnibenevolent, but if God is good then he would not want evil and suffering in his world. If he was omnipotent he must be able to get rid of evil and suffering from the world he created. However there is evil and suffering in the world, so either God is not good or God is not all powerful or God does not exist.

Question 25

Name two ways in which Christians respond to the problem of evil and suffering.

Answer 25

Saying that evil and suffering are the fault of humans misusing their free will.

Saying Jesus taught believers the need for prayer and good works, without evil and suffering we cannot do this.

Question 26

How might the Tv show ‘songs of praise’ encourage belief in God?

Answer 26

It showed that God and Christianity are relevant in the modern world e.g. Modern Churches and Moot for people who are spiritually searching.

The church members were out reaching their to their communities. God must exist to make these people help total strangers to change their life for the better.

Question 27

Why might ‘the most hated family in America’ discourage belief in God?

Answer 27

They say God hates everyone so why would a person want to believe in a God like this.

If believing in God causes this type of behaviour it can put a person off God.