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Flashcards by Jack Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jack Smith
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Agnosticism | Not being sure whether God exists |
| Atheism | Believing that God does not exist |
| Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
| Free will | The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices |
| Miracle | Something that happens that breaks the law of science and makes you think that only God could have done it |
| Moral evil | Actions done by human which causes suffering |
| Natural evil | Things which causes suffering but have nothing to do with humans |
| Numinous | The feeling of the presence of something greater than you |
| Omni-benevolent | The belief that God is all good |
| Omnipotent | The belief that God is all powerful |
| Omniscient | The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen |
| Prayer | An attempt to contact God, usually through words |
| Religious Experience | An experience that makes the person having the experience feel the presence of God |
| Abortion | The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
| Assisted suicide | Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
| Euthanasia | The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
| Immortality of the soul | The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
| Near-death experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience |
| Non-voluntary euthanasia | Ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reasons for thinking they would want you to do so |
| Paranormal | Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes eg.ghosts, mediums |
| Quality of life | The belief that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
| Reincarnation | The belief that after death, souls are reborn into a new body |
| Ressurection | The belief that, after death, the body remains in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
| Sanctity of life | The belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
| Voluntary euthanasia | Ending life painlessly when someone suffering in great pain asks for death |
| Adultery | A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
| Civil partnership | A legal ceremony giving homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
| Cohabitation | Living together without being married |
| Contraception | Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring |
| Faithfulness | Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them |
| Homosexuality | Sexual attraction to the same sex |
| Pre-martial sex | Sex before marriage |
| Procreation | Making a new life |
| Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
| Discrimination | Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/ gender/ colour/ sexuality/ age/ class |
| Ethnic minority | A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
| Interfaith marriages | Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions |
| Multi-ethnic society | Many different races and cultures living together in one society |
| Prejudice | Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them |
| Racial harmony | Different race/colours living together happily |
| Racism | The belief that some races are superior to others |
| Sexism | Discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female) |
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