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Revelation definition

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Describes God making himself known to humanity

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Natural revelation definition

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God revealing himself within the natural world.

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Special revelation

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God revealing himself through special means such as the Bible.

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Why is revelation important?

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Without it, humans cannot know what God is which is the purpose of life.
Proof of God’s love to humans because the same way people share stories to people they love, God shares his stories through revelation.

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When was the final revelation?

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Jesus

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How was Jesus’ physical presence proof of God?

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Story of revelation through Jesus given through apostles which was the passed through to the Church.
Record of Jesus is in Bible which is a faithful record of revelation to humans.
People can encounter Jesus today and therefore God.

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What does the revelation of Jesus prove about God and why did he send Jesus?

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That God acts with love through his sacrifice of Jesus.
He sent Jesus to the Earth out of love.
He sent Jesus to save humans and lead them back to faith.

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Corporeal vision defintion

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Where people physically see something.

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Imaginative vision defintion

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Where people see something in their imagination or dreams.

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Why are visions important?

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Prompt action or greater faith from the person who experiences vision and those around them.
Suggest direct calling from God or possible vocation.
Show loving part fo God’s nature as a father, offering guidance through visions.
Demonstrate mystery of God, setting test of faith or prompting life-changing action.

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Old Testament example of vision

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Abraham visited by God and was promised protection and rewards from God for his obedience.

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New Testament example of vision and importance

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The transfiguration of Jesus in book of Matthew where Moses and Elijah appear to Jesus, Peter, James and John.
Provides evidence that Jesus is son of God as God speaks from the clouds and also that Jesus is a fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies.

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Non-biblical example of vision

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In 1424 Joan had visions of St Michael, St Catherine and St Margaret who told her she must force the English from their homeland. She helped the military leaders to capture many French towns during the Hundred Year War. She was captured and sold to the English to be burnt at the stake at 19.

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Why visions lead to belief in God?

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Personal powerful experience giving strength and faith.
Many examples in Bible and throughout history which people can interpret in a religious way.
Private revelations may prove existence of God. (Richard Swinburne said that if God exists, we would expect contact).

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Arguments against visions as proof of God existing

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No long lasting or physical proof that visions happened.
Could be hallucinations, misunderstanding or made up.
No reason for a vision to prove anything’s existence.
Dreams could be subconscious wanting a religious experience.

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Different miracles Jesus performed

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Healing miracle
Natural miracle
Exorcisms

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Natural miracle example

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Calming the sea or generating more food.

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Healing miracle example

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Curing people from illness.

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Exorcism definition

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Casting out of demons or evil spirits.

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Biblical example of miracle

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When Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and parts the Red Sea. (Exodus 14 “people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground”.)

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Jesus’ miracles

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In a wedding in Cana, he turned water into wine.
At Bethsaida, Jesus healed a blind man (as those with afflictions were often cast out as sinners) and he was welcomed back into the community. Shows forgiveness of his sins.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe miracle

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In 1581, Juan Diego said that Mary appeared to him and told him to build a church where he stood and to collect bundle of flowers. When he opened his roses, the flowers fell away to reveal image of Mary. The painting remains unharmed even though it was 500 years ago.

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Lourdes miracle

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Mary appeared to Bernadette 18 times 1858.
She dug up a spring of water.
The water can heal for example Serge Francois lost mobility in his left leg and he used the water to heal his leg.

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Why miracles lead to belief in God?

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They have no natural scientific explanation so it must be God.
People who experienced or witnessed the miracles feel like they had direct contact with God.
If there is no other explanation, then an atheist may turn to God for one.

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Arguments against miracles as proof that God exists

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Miracles could be coincidences or unusual events.
Just because something is unexplained now, doesn’t mean it will not be always unexplainable.
Unexplainable things don’t always mean God was the cause.

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What do miracles show about God?

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One way interaction from God and they reveal God’s omnipotent nature.
Healing miracles show His love.

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Catholic responses to arguments against miracles as proof that God exists

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They require faith in order to happen.
God cannot say yes to every request and that denial may be a bigger plan for an individual that only a omniscient God can understand.

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Religious experience definiton

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Not revelations but ways that God may wish to continue to communicate with humanity.

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Conversion experience defintion

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Experience of God that is so great that the person wants to change their life and commit themselves to God.

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Numinous defintion

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Feeling of the presence of God that fills person with awe and wonder.

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Transcendence

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Going beyond human experience and existing outside the material world.
Reminder of the omnipresence of God that can build faith.

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Why aren’t religious experiences seen as revelation?

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Because Jesus was God’s final revelation and they are secondary to the revelation of Jesus and only provide insight into what has already been discovered.
Church need to rigorously examine some before recognising them.

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Principle of Credulity

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It is reasonable to believe that the world is how we experience it to be so if we don’t have a specific reason or question a religious experience, it is possible that it is evidence for the existence of God.
Religious experience increase probability that God exists even though they aren’t strong evidence by themselves.

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Why religious experiences may not be proof that God exists

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Miracles contradict the unbreakable laws of nature and there’s more evidence for the laws of nature than miracles.
Lack of evidence and impossibility to test experiences.
Use of stimulants.
Hallucinations caused by diseases mistaken for visions.
Wish fulfilment (dreams also)

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Catholic responses to question of proof of religious experience.

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Omnipotent God is not bound by laws of nature so it is to be expected that miracles and religious experiences break them.
Faith doesn’t require proof.
Church doesn’t lightly recognise religious experiences as true private revelations and agree hallucinations are not religious experiences.

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Teleological argument

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So much of the natural world seems to be deliberately designed with order and purpose so God must be the designer.

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William Paley watch analogy

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If you came across a watch in a field, you wouldn’t assume that the parts came together by chance but that it was designed with purpose so the universe should not be assumed to be accidental.

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Strengths of teleological argument

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Our of experiences of design say that many things appear to be ordered and purposed.
Complements a Christian view of nature of God and suggests purpose for human lives.
Encourages scientific examination of the universe. The attempts so far point to a designer.

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Evidence against the design argument

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Universe is unique so an analogy cannot be used to explain it.
Evil and suffering are signs that God is a poor designer or there isn’t one.
People see the world with “purpose coloured spectacles” (Richard Dawkins) and they only see order because they look for it.

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Christian responses to evidence against the design argument

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Just because something is unique doesn’t mean that evidence and experience cannot be applied to it.
Humans can learn goodness from their suffering and evil.
Science and evidence support concept of order.

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How is evolution an explanation of order and purpose

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Science suggests that the world could not exists as it is without specific evolution that has taken place, so it must have been directed.

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Cosmological argument

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There was something (a prime mover) that began the universe.

The universe requires a first cause and that is God as infinite regression of causes isn’t possible.

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Aquinas’ motion

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The existence of the universe require a first cause as they cannot go back infinite times.

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Aquinas’ Causation

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Nothing causes itself so God must have been the first cause of the universe.

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Aquinas’ contingency

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There must have been a point where nothing existed because time is infinite. If everything is contingent (not necessary) then nothing would exist as something cannot come from nothing.
So God (the necessary being) must have brought about contingent things.
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Strength of the cosmological argument

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It is based on our experience that everything has a cause so this disproves arguments that the universe doesn’t need a cause.
Makes more sense than an infinite chain of events and acts as a total explanation.
It is compatible with scientific evidence (the Big Bang) which is in keeping with the cosmological argument.

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What does the cosmological argument reveal about God’s nature

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That He is omnipotent and can create a universe out of nothing therefore his power is limitless.

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Evidence against the cosmological argument

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Total explanation of everything that exists is impossible as explanations rely on other explanations and we should accept that the universe is just here.
Just because everything in the universe needs a cause doesn’t mean that the universe itself needs one.
Big Bang doesn’t need a God.

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The issue of suffering

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If God is omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent, why does he not stop evil?

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Natural evil definition

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Suffering that is inherent in nature such as natural disasters, disease that humans have no control over. Causes suffering to people who have committed no crime.

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Catholic explanation of natural evil

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Test faith in order to make them stronger and appreciate the good in the world.

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Moral evil definition

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Suffering caused from actions caused by humans such as murder based on human choice and free will.

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Catholic explanation of moral evil

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Humans have free will and therefore must be allowed to act as they choose and it is the price paid for true free will.

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Biblical responses to suffering

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Book of Job where Job (a righteous man) is tested and tormented by the Satan. It shows that the reasons for suffering are not something that can always be understood by humans and it is arrogant to assume they can.
Psalms says so.
In the New Testament, God experienced suffering through Jesus so there must be a higher purpose to suffering.

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Theoretical responses of suffering

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St Irenaeus the bishops said that God was responsible for allowing evil so we strive to be like God through our free will and our moral choices.
St Augustine of Hippo said that evil exists because the abuse of free will.

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Practical responses to suffering

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Prayer - God will answer as He is loving, but not always as expected.
Charity - helping those in need stop suffering, taught to do so in parable of Sheep and Goats.

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