Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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Religious people refer to God as...
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What does proof mean?
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Something is 100% correct and cannot be disregarded
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Evidence that guarantees the truth of something
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Evidence that doesn't remove all areas of doubt in the mind
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What are the problems when proving God's existence?
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God cannot be proved by physical senses as would mean God is limited to being something that is physical.
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Religious experiences cannot be evidence as it is not valid for other people.
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Some people may find ways to destroy any evidence suggesting God exists.
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What is the First Cause Argument?
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An argument that disregards God's existence, and puts to shame all theories that try to prove God exists.
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It is a proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there had to be an uncaused cause that made everything happen.
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It is a proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there is so much design and purpose in the universe that it could not have happened by accident.
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St Thomas Aquinas drew up ____ way(s) to prove the existence of God
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Which are strengths of the cosmological argument?
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Many people use this as a starting point of who initiated the Big Bang.
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If God is perfect, why is the universe made full of imperfections?
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Things could work differently outside the world.
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There must be pure existence for anything to happen - love, knowledge and power are all in God.
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Aquinas used the analogy of an arrow and a target to explain the design argument.
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What are the challenges to the Design Argument?
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Richard Dawkins used the digger wasp example of natural evil.
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There aren't any challenges because the world is a perfect place.
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If there was a God, he would have made a better job of creating things.
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What is a religious experience?
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It is a unique awareness of an outside supreme being.
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It is when God reveals himself to people telling them that they are going to heaven.
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It is when you suddenly change from one religion to the other.
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Can religious experiences make differences to people?
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Yes - they are often used as a basis for their own acceptance of faith. For example, many people accepted the resurrection of Jesus as a fact based on the experience of the early disciples and their claims to have seen the Risen Christ
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No - they are difficult for people to understand let alone express, so others cannot make sense of religious experiences at all, so immediately disregard them.
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Yes - the accuracy of people's descriptions of religious experiences can convert people into believing in a religion.
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Which are accounts of religious experiences?
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The Call of Jeremiah, Julian of Norwich, Bernadette of Lourdes
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Muhammad, Isaiah, Peter
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Mother Theresa, MLK, Gandhi
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Valid religious experiences come unexpectedly.
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It is believing in one God, and disregarding any other religion.
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A commitment to something that goes beyond proof and knowledge, especially used about God and religion.
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Has the same meaning as 'knowledge'.
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Proving God would still allow human freedom.
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Choose two arguments used against God's existence