God

Question 1

Does something become good because God says so? Or is something just inherently good?

Answer 1

Euthyphro’s Dilemma

Question 2

God can technically change what is right/wrong. Thus, morality is arbitrary and dependent on God’s will

Answer 2

Divine Command Theory

Question 3

This theory that says that believing that there is a God would be of most benefit to you over not believing.

Answer 3

Pascal’s Wager

Question 4

The 7 Traditional Conceptions of God are God as:?

Answer 4

Transcendent
Immanent
Totally Immanent (Pantheism)
Universal Spirit and Process
Transcendent Creator
Unknown Object of Faith
Moral Being

Question 5

This conception of God states that God is ineffable and is beyond the ordinary world of human experience

Answer 5

Transcendent

Question 6

This conception of God states that God transcends the world but dwells in every part of it

Answer 6

Immanent (Panentheism)

Question 7

This conception of God states that God is the universe

Answer 7

Totally Immanent (Pantheism)

Question 8

This conception of God states that God acts through and uses us in spirit and that God is revealing what this God is becoming

Answer 8

Universal Spirit and Process

Question 9

This conception of God states that God only created the world but does not intervene in it

Answer 9

Transcendent Creator

Question 10

The term for: God only created the world but does not intervene in it

Answer 10

Deism

Question 11

This conception of God states that “because I cannot grasp the concept of God objectively, I must believe.”

Answer 11

Unknown Object of Faith

Question 12

Who stated that: “because I cannot grasp the concept of God objectively, I must believe.”?

Answer 12

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 13

This conception of God states that if God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist

Answer 13

Moral Being

Question 14

Evil that is done by humans and causes suffering

Answer 14

Moral evil

Question 15

Evil that is not done by humans and causes suffering

Answer 15

Natural evil

Question 16

Who stated that we live in a world of the least of evils?

Answer 16

Gottfried Leibniz

Question 17

This concept states that we must look at the bigger picture as good can be seen from a higher perspective

Answer 17

Aesthetic Solution

Question 18

This concept states that we have the ability to do what we want and that we make evil, not God

Answer 18

Free Will Solution

Question 19

According to ___ it is possible to prove the existence of God, although not _____, but _______

Answer 19

Thomas Aquinas, a priori, a posteriori

Question 20

This concept states that the universe is too intricate for there not to be an intelligent designer, which is God

Answer 20

Watchmaker Argument

Question 21

Who was the proponent of the watchmaker argument?

Answer 21

William Paley

Question 22

This concept states that we only impose the fact that there is a designer for the universe

Answer 22

Cosmological Argument by David Hume - The intelligent design is based on a false analogy

Question 23

This concept states that God is the greatest concept we can conceive, as such it is foolish to say that the entity does not exist. If the entity does not exist, is it really perfect?

Answer 23

St. Anslem’s Ontological Argument