Believing in God- Summary of whole topic
- Created by: Lara Oakes
- Created on: 01-12-16 11:25
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- 1.1 Why do Christians believe in God?
- The main features of a Christian family
- Go to church
- Pray together as a family
- Celebrate religious festivals
- Getting out into the community and helping people
- Why can this lead to a belief in God?
- You have God parents who support you and discuss their understanding of God
- You grow up with Christian values
- Because you follow the example your parents set
- The parents might chose a church school so you are around other Christians and pray etc together
- Believing in God
- 1.2 Religious experience
- Examples
- Numinous, this is the feeling of something greater than you
- Prayer, this is an attempt to contact God, usually through words
- Miracle, this is something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it
- Conversion, this is when your life is changed by giving yourself to God.
- Why these could lead to a belief in god
- The responses people believe they have recieve to their prayers leads them to a belief in God
- When something happens against all the odds and breaks a law of science people believe in God because of it
- Some people become so convinced God is real they commit themselves to God
- For some the presence of something genuinely awesome is proof that God exsits
- Examples
- 1.3 Does TV affect people's attitudes to belief in God?
- The genius of darwin
- This could make you become an atheist as it is presented by an atheist and was also about the scientific not religious argument
- Songs of praise
- This could convert people to become Christians as it has hymn singing and worship
- 1.5 The causation argument
- Everything in life has a cause so so does the universe
- This proves there is a God because someone or something had to cause it and so the only solution is God
- This is a faulty argument because if God created the universe then what created God?
- The genius of darwin
- 1.4 The argument from design
- The idea that everyone must have a designer if something is that inticate
- Humanists say the argument from design doesn't prove there's a God because...
- There isn't much order in the universe, it doesn't have a fixed design and the universe is expanding
- Patterns in nature do not really point to any designer. Patterns are the result of millions of years of evolution not a planning intelligence
- Why it suggests God exsits
- Because some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom
- The universe could not have been created like it is by chance the odds were far too smal
- Because the sex-life of a bumble bee or the structure of the DNA are extremely complex
- 1.6 What does science say about the origins of the world
- 1. The big bang caused it
- 3. The stars formed galaxies
- 2. Gravity pulled matter together to form stars
- 4. the stars exploded and formed the planets and the sun
- This could prove God doesn't exist because it proves the causation and design argument wrong
- 1.7 How do Christians respond to scientific theories about the origins of the world
- The experience of the physical universe as we know it originated in the big bang but God is the one who upholds the world and keeps it in being
- God didn't produce a ready made world he made a world able to make itself
- The universe evolved itself without any active participation from God, then the world continues on its own the only way he participates is through people and their attitudes
- The experience of the physical universe as we know it originated in the big bang but God is the one who upholds the world and keeps it in being
- 1.8 Anybody there?
- Why people might say unanswered prayers prove there is no God
- This could prove that God is not real because if he was and he is omnipotent and omni-benevolent then he would answer
- Why people might say unanswered prayers prove there is no God
- 1.9 What explanations do Christians have for unanswered prayers?
- God doesn't always answer the way we expect
- God doesn't interfere in day-to-day matters. It is arrogant of us to think that God will do what we ask of him
- Prayer works indirectly communicate-ing with God helps us to find answers within ourselves
- Prayer is a test of faith and should be a test of God. Some people just give up without really trying.
- 1.10 How can God exist if people suffer?
- The difference between moral and natural evil
- Moral evil are actions done by humans which cause suffering however natural evil are things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans
- Reasons why evil and suffering could prove there is no God
- God is omnicient (all knowing)
- God is omni- benevolent (all loving)
- God is omnipotent (all powerful)
- If God is all these things then why can't he answer our prayers, this must mean he doesn't exist.
- The difference between moral and natural evil
- 1.11 What do Christians say about evil and suffering?
- Reasons Christians give for the existence of evil and suffering
- Evil and suffering is one of life's tests. How we react to it are what determines what will happen to us in the afterlife
- Some Christians believe that in the story of Adam and Eve when they ate the apple that humanity is now punished because of this
- Humans have free will and they use it to create moral evil, this is our fault
- God has a bigger plan that we can't know or understand because we are only human
- Reasons Christians give for the existence of evil and suffering
- 1.2 Religious experience
- The main features of a Christian family
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