Believing In God Flashcards
(29 cards)
agnosticism
not being sure whether God exsist
atheism
not believing that God exsist
conversion
when your life is changed by giving yourself to God
free will
the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
miracle
something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could’ve done it
moral evil
actions done by humans which cause suffering
natural evil
things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans
numinous
the feeling of the presence something greater than you
omni benevolent
the belief that God is all good
omni potent
the belief that God is all powerful
omniscient
the belief that God is all knowing
prayer
an attempt to contact God usually through words
main features of a Catholic upbringing
have babies baptised and promise to bring up their children to believe in God and be good Catholics
teach their children to believe in God
teach their children to pray
take children to mass to learn how to worship God
is it natural for children who have had a Catholic upbringing to believe in God because:
their Catholic parents would have told them about God and they will ivboisily take after their parents
Catholics pray to God so they will believe in God because they will think why will their parent waste their time praying if God is not real
seeing people worship God
their teachers will tell them it’s true
you may be required to argue for and against religious experience proving gods existence
- a numinous experience
- conversion
- a miracle
- feeling like God is listening to your prayers
points on the argument from design?
anything that has been designed needs a designer
plenty of evidence that the world has been designed
if the world has been designed their has to be a designer
there for this proves that God exsist
people who think the argument from causation proves God’s existence may use these arguements:
the argument makes sense of ourselves and the universe because it explains how and why we are here
fits in with common sense and we cannot believe that something can come from nothing
argument fits in with science which tells us that everything has a cause and the cause must be God
we believe things must have started off and must have a beginning and the argument explains that God started off the universe
people who think the argument of causation does not prove gods existence
if everything needs a cause then why should the process stop with God?
it is possible that matter itself is eternal and was never created.
just because everything in the argument needs an explanation does not mean the universe does. the universe could just be here
even if their was a first cause it doesn’t mean it was God from a particular religion . it could be a mixture of bad and good
science explains how the world came into being this way
matter is eternal
as the matter of the universe flew away from the explosion it formed stars and then solar system
the big bang theory
the gases on earth surface produced primitive life
how the scientific explanation of the world may lead to agnosticism or atheism
if science can explain the universe and humans without God it can lead some people to be agnostic as they no longer need God to explain .
other people may believe that if God exsisted he must of made the world and be the only explanation for it
how Catholics respond to scientific explanations of the world
only God could’ve made the big bang theory to form the universe
only God could’ve made laws such as gravity which the big bang needed to form solar systems
only God could’ve made the gases on earth to form life
scientific explanations of the world proving God does not exist
if God exsisted he would be the only explanation of the world therefore the fact that science can explain the world and humans without proof that God exsist
big bang was an accident and no evidence that it was cause by God
an omnipotent and omniscient God would not have created such an wasteful world with many species dying for humans
why unanswered prayers may lead to agnosticism or athiesm
unanswered prayers
if somebody prays for a child to get better and they get worse people may lose their faith in God
how Catholics respond to unanswered prayers
if you pray for selfish things God will let you fail and make you work harder next time
prayer might not be answered because God has different plans for the person
God gives you what you need not what you want
