U1S1 Believing In God

Question 1

Atheism

Answer 1

Believing that God does not exist

Question 2

Conversion

Answer 2

When your life is changed by giving yourself to God

Question 3

Free will

Answer 3

The idea that humans are free to make their own choices

Question 4

Miracle

Answer 4

Something that seems to break the law of science and makes you think only God could have done it

Question 5

Moral evil

Answer 5

Actions done by humans which cause suffering

Question 6

Natural evil

Answer 6

Things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

Question 7

Numinous

Answer 7

The feeling of the presence of greater than you

Question 8

Omni benevolent

Answer 8

The belief that God is all good

Question 9

Omni potent

Answer 9

The belief that God is all-powerful

Question 10

Omniscient

Answer 10

The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen

Question 11

Prayer

Answer 11

An attempt to contact God usually through words

Question 12

Agnosticism

Answer 12

Not being sure whether God exists

Question 13

Explain the causation argument.

Answer 13

1. Nothing happens by itself
2. Everything that happens must be caused by something else
3. The universe cannot have been caused by itself
4. A powerful/ first cause was necessary to cause the universe
5. This cause has to be God
6. Therefore God exists

Question 14

Explain the design argument

Answer 14

1. Design is the result of intelligent thought
2. The Universe shows us evidenced of being designed e.g. A waterfall
3. This suggests that a being with intelligence must have designed the universe
4. The universe is too complex to have happened by chance or be designed buy any other being than God
5. Therefore God exists

Question 15

Give 4 evidence in non belief in life after death

Answer 15

1. There is no scientific evidence in life after death. Mediums can trick people.
2. Science explains everything in our world and we should not believe in things unscientific
3. Humans are mortal and decay
4. Religion offers us no evidence of an afterlife

Question 16

Give 3 beliefs in life after death

Answer 16

1. Near death experiences- when you leave your body and can see dead relatives/ a bright light
2. Paranormal activity like ghosts and mediums
3. Reincarnation- the belief that a persons souls is reborn into a new body

Question 17

Give 3 scientific explanations about the origins of the world

Answer 17

1. The Big Bang- an enormous explosion that started the universe 15 billion years ago
2. Evolution- Darwins theory that prices evolve over millions of years
3. Natural selection- the way in which species naturally select the best characteristics for the best chance of survival

Question 18

Christian responses to scientific explanations

Answer 18

• The bibles description of the creation of the world is more of a story
• The six days of creation were stages not actual periods of time
• Science explains how the world came to exist and the bible explains why

Question 19

Give 5 Christian responses to unanswered prayers

Answer 19

1. They may accept hat they do not have enough faith that God will answer their prayers, so they must go on trying
2. They may accept that God hears and answers prayers but not in the way they hope or expect. They don’t fully understand but continue to follow him
3. They feel God is not listening to them
4. Some may accept that God does not answer selfish prayers
5. Some believe what they are praying for is not part of Gods will or plan

Question 20

Christian responses to evil and suffering

Answer 20

1. Free will. Some people accept that evil and suffering can be a result of free will
2. Test from God. Some accept that evil and suffering may be a test from God
3. God’s plan. Evil and suffering are part of Gods plan
4. Following Jesus’ example. People can strive to be good