Arguments for the Existence of God

Question 1

What is God to be believed as

Answer 1

Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnibenevolent
Omnipresent

Question 2

How is revelation proof that God loves humans

Answer 2

We only reveal ourselves if we care about the person

Question 3

How did God first reveal himself to Moses

Answer 3

Through the burning bush

Question 4

How does the revelation of Jesus show God loves humans

Answer 4

He sent down his only son for us to know Him.

Question 5

What are Corporeal Visions

Answer 5

People physically see something

Question 6

What are Imaginative Vision

Answer 6

People see something in dreams or imagination

Question 7

Importance of Visions

Answer 7

Builds greater faith to those experiencing
Calling from God to vocation
Shows God’s loving nature by offering guidance

Question 8

Non Biblical example of Vision

Answer 8

1424, Joan of Arc had a vision of St Michael, St Catherine and St Margaret

Question 9

3 main types of miracles

Answer 9

Healing
Natural
Exorcism

Question 10

Examples of Biblical miracle

Answer 10

Moses parting the Sea in book of Exodus
Jesus turning water to wine at wedding in Cana
Jesus curing the blind-born man

Question 11

Example of Non Biblical miracle

Answer 11

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Question 12

David Hume’s CoRE and the counter argument

Answer 12

RE defy laws by which human life exist
- God is omnipotent and not bound to the laws of nature

Question 13

CoRE saying there is lack of evidence and the counter argument

Answer 13

There is lack of evidence to prove a RE has happened
- Just because there is no evidence, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

Question 14

Drug CoRE and the counter argument

Answer 14

Drug use and mental problems makes people more open to RE
-The Church analyses RE, they are not accepted lightly

Question 15

Sigmund Freud CoRE and the counter argument

Answer 15

We have an inner desire to accept RE so we satisfy those desires
-Our sense experience is generally reliable, we should accept what it is telling us

Question 16

Who developed the Design Argument

Answer 16

William Paley, Cicero and Aquinas

Question 17

What is the Design Argument

Answer 17

The universe has a designer, and that designer must be God

Question 18

What is the analogy used in the Design Argument

Answer 18

A watch

Question 19

Strengths to the Design Argument

Answer 19

Based on our own experience of design
Compliments the Christian view of Creation that there is and omnipotent God

Question 20

Weaknesses to the Design Argument

Answer 20

If God created the world, why is there evil and suffering?
Evolution not a designer

Question 21

Who developed the Cosmological Argument

Answer 21

Thomas Aquinas

Question 22

What is the Cosmological Argument

Answer 22

There must have been a first uncaused cause which must be God

Question 23

Strengths for Cosmological Argument

Answer 23

Compatible with scientific evidence, the big bang, God is the cause of the big bang

Question 24

Weaknesses for Cosmological Argument

Answer 24

First cause does not have to be Big Bang, could be the Big Bang
Universe does not need a cause

Question 25

What are the two types of Evil

Answer 25

Moral Evil
Natural Evil

Question 26

What are the problems of evil

Answer 26

All-powerful God would be able to stop evil and suffering
All-loving and all-knowing God would look after believers and prevent suffering
Innocent people suffer so God cannot exist as it is undeserved
Many people pray for suffering to end but it does not

Question 27

3 responses to the problem of evil

Answer 27

Biblical
Theoretical
Practical

Question 28

Christian response to the problem of evil

Answer 28

Punishment of Adam and Eve was separation from God which leads to Evil
Evil and Suffering is a test from God
Evil is not God’s fault, it is free will
God’s plan, we must trust