religious studies

general revelation is when god reveals himself indirectly ,this could be to a group or an individual e.g nature,people or events
1. special revelation is direct revelation ,god communicating directly with you (as an individual or group)
design argument
1. if you came across a stone you think nothing of it.but if you came across a watch you would believe it had been manufactured -even if you didn't know it was.the world is like that watch but even more obviously designed.the world is to amazing to of happened by chance.something,or someone ,must have thought about it all and deliberately designed it that way the only thing clever enough to have been the designer is god.therefore god exists.
moral=suffering caused by actions of humans.for example the holocaust witch purposely happened
1. natural=caused by nature .for example if you didn't do anything to get cancer like smoking
sources of evil
1. caused by devil?=the one that tempts us into doing the wrong things
  1. psychological phenomenon?=if something bad happens to you it can influence you into doing the wrong thing
2. impersonal force?=you do it because your addicted to that sort of behavior

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