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