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The Existence of God and Revelation Flashcards

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What are God’s three qualities?

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  • Omnipotent (all powerful)
  • Omniscient (all knowing)
  • Omnibenevolent (all loving)
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What is TRANSCENDENT?

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He is not part of creation, he is outside it watching it all happen.

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What is IMMANENT?

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God is all around us

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What is PERSONAL?

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that he gets involved in the lives of individuals and has a relationship with them

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How can God be Immanent & Transcendent at the same time?

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He is part of the Holy trinity

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Who is Buddha to Theravada Buddhists?

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A Historical figure, an example to be followed

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Who is Buddha to Mahayana Buddhists?

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He is immanent & personal

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Who thought of the Design argument?

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William Paley

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What is the Design Argument?

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The universe is so complex and well designed that there must have been a designer behind it - God

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What is an example of the design argument?

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If you saw a watch on the ground, you wouldn’t assume it was there by chance but that there must have been a watchmaker. Each part of the watch has a specific purpose, just like the world.

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What is the Goldilocks effect?

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An idea founded by F.R. Tennant that the world is in the perfect place for human survival and this can’t have just happened by chance.

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Give one problem with the design argument

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If God designed the world, why is there so much suffering in the world?

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How does Natural Selection disprove the design argument?

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The reason why the world is in a perfect condition is because organisms have adapted and evolved over time to reach this point

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How do Buddhists respond to the design argument?

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There is no God or creator, the universe is in a continuous cycle

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Who thought of the first cause argument?

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Aquinas

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What is the first cause argument?

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Everything has a cause. Something must have caused creation, the first cause is God

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What do scientists say is the first cause?

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The big bang

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What is one problem with the first cause argument?

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It doesn’t prove that God is loving or personal

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How do Buddhists respond to the first cause argument?

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There was no ‘first cause’ the universe has always existed.

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What is the argument from Miracles?

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When amazing things happen and there’s no scientific explanation, these events prove God’s existence

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Give one bible example of a miracle

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Moses being able to part the red sea

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Who was Grayson Kirby?

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A man who suffered an incredible car accident, people prayed for him and now he’s made a full recovery

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Give 2 things an Atheist would say in response to Miracles

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  1. they’re just happy coincidences

2. they’re a result of the placebo effect

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Give 2 problems about miracles that Christians may point out

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  1. God is either partisan or arbitrary

2. Manipulation of Gullible believers

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What is Partisan?

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Picking favourites

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What is Arbitrary?

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Choosing people at random

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What would Buddhists say about Miracles?

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They aren’t significant in proving a god, people who meditate intensely may be able to develop special powers.

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What would Buddhists say about Buddha’s miracles?

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They’re not true just symbolic

29
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What are the two types of evil?

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Natural & Moral

30
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Why is evil an argument against God’s existence?

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If he designed the world, why is there evil in the world?

31
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Give 2 explanations for evil

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  1. The inconsistent triad

2. Giving humans freewill

32
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How is science an argument against God’s existence?

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Now we have scientific explanation, there is no reason to believe in God

33
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What is ‘God of the Gaps’?

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There are certain things in science that we can’t explain, that’s where God comes in

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Explain the Parable of the Invisible Gardener

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Two explorers come across a garden, one thinks it’s an accident one thinks there’s a gardener. They wait to find a gardener but no one turned up. The believer said he’s invisible but the other one said there’s no point in believing.

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What does the story of the invisible gardener show?

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Religious believers adapt new scientific discoveries to their current beliefs

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What are Revelations?

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Religous experiences where the believer thinks that God is revealing something to them

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What are the two types of Revelation?

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General & Special

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What are special revelations?

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When God reveals himself to an individual for a specific purpose

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What are general revelations?

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When God reveals himself to all of us but not everyone notices

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How can Holy scriptures be seen as a revelation?

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The bible is god’s way of revealing himself to us. It shows us how we should live our lives

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Give 3 problems about the bible

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  1. Full of contradictions
  2. Just common sense
  3. People selective read
42
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Give an example of how Christians selectively read the bible

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The death penalty should apply to breaking the sabbath.

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How can nature be seen as a revelation?

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Nature reveals aspects of God’s personality. Christians may experience Awe or Wonder

44
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Give 2 problems with Nature as a revelation

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  1. Natural disasters

2. Happened by chance

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What are Visions?

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A picture, in a dream perhaps

46
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Give 2 bible examples of Visions

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Saint Paul ‘why are you persecuting me?’ and the Virgin Mary

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What is the Tibetan book of the dead?

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A book supposedly created after seeing a vision, believed by Mahayana Buddhists

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What do Buddhists think about Visions?

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Mahayana chant mantras in order to come into contact with a Bodhisattva, proves there is a spiritual world

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What are 4 arguments against Visions?

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  1. Brain reacts differently under stress
  2. In the past, not a great understanding of mental illness
  3. Took drugs to enter the spiritual world
  4. Manipulate believers.
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What are two types of miracles?

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  1. Those that defy the laws of nature

2. Those that are amazing coincedences

51
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What is one problem with miracles?

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They ‘grow’ in people’s minds over time

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