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Flashcards by elliemaebrennan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by elliemaebrennan
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| Question | Answer |
| Catholic Christian Up Bringing | •Baptised •Teach children to believe in God •Teach children to pray •Take children to Mass •Catholic school |
| Catholic Christian upbringing may lead to BIG because... | •Children believe parents •Parents wouldn't waste time praying for nothing •They see people worship God when they go to mass |
| Catholic upbringing is good because... | •Helps keep family together -Parents and children join together for Catholic activities •Gives children good morals (understanding of what is right and wrong) •Gives children sense of belonging to a community |
| Catholic upbringing is bad because... | •Children have no choice •Takes away child's human right to freedom of religion •May work against community cohesion by making the children think that other religions are wrong |
| Religious experience | •Numinous - the feeling of the presence of something greater than you •Conversion - when your life is changed by giving yourself to God •Miracle - something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think that only God could have done it •Prayer - an attempt to contact God, usually through words |
| Religious experience proves God exists because... | •If you are aware of the presence of something greater than you, then God must be there •Something that breaks all the laws of science = must be the most powerful = must be God •Answered prayers |
| Religious experience do not prove that God exists because... | •Numinous experience is caused by your surroundings - nothing to do with God •All miracles can be explained - E.G. Jesus may not have died when He was taken down from the cross so he never resurrected •More unanswered prayers than answered ones |
| The argument from design | ☞Anything that has been designed needs a creator ☞Evidence that the world has been designed (gravity + DNA) ☞The only possible designer for the world would be God |
| The design argument proves God exists because... | ✔︎There is evidence that the world has been designed (DNA + evolution) ✔︎Only God could design something as wonderful as the universe |
| The design argument does not prove that God exists because... | ✖︎No designer would have created destructive things like volcanoes and earthquakes ✖︎Science can explain the appearance of design without needing God ✖︎Even if a designer did exist, it doesn't prove that the God of a particular religion does |
| The causation argument proves that God exists because... | ✻It explains why we are here ✻We cannot believe that something can come from nothing ∴ everything must come from God ✻Science tells us that every effect must have a cause ∴ the universe (an effect) must have a cause (God) ✻We believe that everything must have a beginning/start - God started off the universe |
| The causation argument doesn't prove that God exists because... |
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