Belief in God
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- Created on: 17-02-15 15:59
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- Belief in God
- Religious upbringing
- babies baptised
- parents encourage to believe in God
- parents teaching to pray and worship
- If God did not existt they would be wasting time
- Sunday school
- learn about God
- normal feature of life, RE lessons teach God exists
- Parents tell children about God
- babies baptised
- Religious experiances
- numinous
- feeling of the presence of God
- experience makes them feel God is real.
- Conversion and belief in God
- used to describe an experiance of God which causing the person to change
- Miracles
- something which seems to break a law of science
- God is the only explaination
- Prayer
- an attempt to contact God
- If a prayer is answered
- numinous
- Design argument
- evidence
- DNA
- structure indicate a design for the structure of organisms
- Evolution
- complex life forms develop from simpe ones
- Beauty of nature
- evidence of design
- DNA
- leads to belief in God
- anything designed needs a designer
- lots of evidence
- not believing in God
- lack of design
- can be explained
- dinosaurs
- not neccessarily God
- evidence
- Causation argument
- the process whereby one thing causes another
- known as cause and effect
- everything has a cause
- anything caused to exist must be caused by something else
- there has to be a first cause
- this has to be God
- there has to be a first cause
- anything caused to exist must be caused by something else
- may not stop at God
- better explanations e.g. the universe is eternal
- the process whereby one thing causes another
- Scientific explanations for atheism and agnosticism
- agnosticism
- not being sure God exists
- atheism
- believing God does not exist
- big bang
- red-shift-light from other galaxies is evidence that the universe is expanding
- the matter of the universe became so compressed that it produced a huge explosion
- evolution
- fossil records show similarities between life forms
- argument that you need God is no longer valid
- agnosticism
- unanswered prayers-agnosticism/atheism
- not feeling God's presence when praying
- doubt God's existance
- prayer=attempt to contact God.
- not feeling God's presence when praying
- Evil and suffering
- reject God's existance
- God would not have allowed natural evil
- natural evil
- suffereing that has not been caused by humans
- tsunami
- volcanoes
- draught
- moral evil
- humans misusing free will
- war
- ****
- murder
- sins
- God wants Christians to help those who suffer
- follow the example of Jesus and stop suffering
- reject God's existance
- Religious upbringing
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