Belief about Deity

Belief about Deity

1. Lourdes

2. Describing God

   • Immanent: within everything
   • Ominbenevolent: all loving
   • Transcendent: beyond space and time
   • Creator: made the world
     • God made the world in 7 days
   • Eternal: has no beging or end
   • Omniscient: all knowing
   • Omnipotent: all powerfull

3. Logical arguments for God's existence

   • St Aquinas
     • The cosmological argument
       • The universe has a cause. The only thing that could cause the universe is God
   • William Paley
     • The design argument
       • The universe is too complicated to be random. God is the only one that could design such a complex creation

4. Experience arguments for God's existence

   • NDE (near death experience)
     • When people are close to death they might experience God's prensence

5. Defining miracles

   • A supernatural event
     • Near death experience
     • Anserwed prayers
     • Dreams and visions
     • Coming back from the dead is a miracle because it breaks the laws of nature
     • Awe and wonder

6. Deity is a God or Goddess that is worshiped because they believe to have supernatural powers

7. Christians are monothesist: they have one God

   • Thesist: believe in God
     • They think there is a God and he created the world in seven days
   • Agnostics: believe we can't be certain
   • Athesist: don't believe in God
     • Athesist think God is non existent and he is not real