The Existence of God Flashcards
Omnipotent
All powerful
Omnipresent
God is everywhere
Omniscient
All knowing
Omnibenevelant
All loving
Immanent
Within all
Trancendant
Above all
Eternal
No beginning and no end
Agonistic
Not sure whether God is real or not
Athiest
When you don’t believe in God
Thiest
When you believe in God
Infinite regress
A cause that has no cause and must have been caused by God
First Cause Argument
Known as the cosmological argument. The argument that there has to be an uncaused cause that made everything else happen, otherwise there would be nothing now
Cosmos
The Greek word for universe
Summa theologica
Collection of works authored by Aquinas
Miracle
An extraordinary event that breaks the laws of nature and can have only been caused by God
Moral evil
Human caused evil
Evil
Anything that goes against the will of God and causes suffering to others
Revelation
The way God makes himself known to others
Special revelation
The way God makes himself known to specific others
Design argument
The argument that God designed the universe because the universe is made so intricately and it couldn’t have happened by chance