Knowldge Of God Flashcards

(12 cards)

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Faith

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Voulantery commitment to belief without need for evidence

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Empiricisms

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Belief in the senses as a source of knowledge and evidence

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Revelation

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Uncovering or being revealed knowledge of god in a clear way

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Natural theology

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Using human senses and reasoning to uncover truths about god

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Paleys watch argument

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Knowledge of god through nature

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Revealed theology

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Revelation chosen by gods which humans could not coo,pretend without him

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Mediate revelation

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Less direct knowledge of god like through hearing from prophets

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Immediate revelation

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God makes himself directly known to humans

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Sensus divinitas

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People poses a natural inclination to recognise existence of god
.it provides a base of moral understanding and moral rights to god

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Principle of accommodations

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God communicates through humanity and the message is adapted to the understanding of the universe which explains why we must seek god through nature e.g paley

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Baths argument

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Human nature completely corrupted by the fall and there’s no knowledge of god apart from his revelations and there is no contact between god and humans apart from this

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Brunners argument

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Points of contact between god is beauty and nature conscience and sensus divinitas these points give us a basic understanding of god. If you wish to deepen understanding through revelation and faith. As well as this the fall has hurt human nature but not fully corrupted it so we are still able to have a relationship with gods

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