Religious Studies - Unit One > Believing in God

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Religious Studies - Unit One > Believing in God
  1. Why Christian families raise their children to believe in God
    1. Thier duty is to marry, have a family and raise children
      1. Religion gives a secure basis
        1. Helps them through difficulties
        2. Baptism
          1. Welcomed by the church
            1. Friends, famil, congregation
              1. Promising to support them within their faith
          2. School
            1. Some parents may want their children to go to schools where theyc an be educated on their religion
            2. Worship
              1. Sunday school
                1. Learn about Jesus
                2. Attend church and celebrate religious festivals
                3. Comfirmation
                  1. Encouraged to renew vows
                    1. Only when old enough to decide by themselves
                  1. Religious Experience s
                    1. Numinous experience
                      1. Completely amazes someone
                        1. Words can't describe experience
                          1. Leaves witness aware of a greater being
                      2. Conversion
                        1. Changes ones belief's
                          1. Atheist may believe God exists
                        2. Prayer
                          1. Believers use it to communicate with God
                            1. Personal
                              1. Group worship
                                1. Share ideas with God
                                  1. Praise, thank and ask forgiveness from God
                                2. Miracles
                                  1. Act of God
                                    1. Seems impossible
                                      1. Performed for religious reasons
                                3. The Design Argument
                                  1. Design is result of intelligence
                                    1. Universe shows evidence of design
                                      1. Gravity
                                        1. Ozone layer
                                          1. Suggests an intelligent being designed the universe
                                            1. Universe too complex to happen by chance
                                              1. Had to have been designed by God
                                                1. Therefore God exists
                                        2. Arguments Against Design
                                          1. Cannot prove his existence
                                            1. Only suggests he's a designer
                                            2. Appearance could be due to evolution
                                              1. Scientific theory everything evolved
                                                1. Gives appearance of design
                                          2. Causation Argument
                                            1. Nothing happens by itself
                                              1. Everything that happens is caused by something else
                                                1. Universe can't have happened by itself
                                                  1. Powerful cause necessary to cause universe
                                                    1. This cause was god
                                                      1. Therefore God exists
                                              2. Cosmological Argument
                                                1. 13th century
                                                  1. Thomas Aquinas argued everything I caused by something else
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