Edexcel GSCE long course: religion and life: believing in god
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- Believing in God
- design argument
- Summary
- Some people argue that the complexity of the natural world and the uniqueness of a person's DNA and thumbprint support belief in God
- The world is so well ordered and everything is balanced to sustain life. The world is so beautiful and complex, interdependent parts make a whole.
- This complex world therefore must have been designed.
- if it was designed, it must have a designer
- the only being powerful enough to design the universe is God
- so God must exist... Right?
- the only being powerful enough to design the universe is God
- if it was designed, it must have a designer
- This complex world therefore must have been designed.
- Summary
- Causation argument
- Summary
- some people argue that everything in the world has a cause and therefore the world must have a cause and that cause must be God.
- Nothing can happen by its self.
- everything that happens must be caused by something else
- the universe could have not "just happened" by itself.
- A very powerful force must have caused the universe
- This cause must have been God
- this means god exists
- This cause must have been God
- A very powerful force must have caused the universe
- the universe could have not "just happened" by itself.
- everything that happens must be caused by something else
- Summary
- Scienctific explanations or the origins of the world
- Summary
- design argument
- Christian upbringing
- Believing in God
- design argument
- Summary
- Some people argue that the complexity of the natural world and the uniqueness of a person's DNA and thumbprint support belief in God
- The world is so well ordered and everything is balanced to sustain life. The world is so beautiful and complex, interdependent parts make a whole.
- This complex world therefore must have been designed.
- if it was designed, it must have a designer
- the only being powerful enough to design the universe is God
- so God must exist... Right?
- the only being powerful enough to design the universe is God
- if it was designed, it must have a designer
- This complex world therefore must have been designed.
- Summary
- Causation argument
- Summary
- some people argue that everything in the world has a cause and therefore the world must have a cause and that cause must be God.
- Nothing can happen by its self.
- everything that happens must be caused by something else
- the universe could have not "just happened" by itself.
- A very powerful force must have caused the universe
- This cause must have been God
- this means god exists
- This cause must have been God
- A very powerful force must have caused the universe
- the universe could have not "just happened" by itself.
- everything that happens must be caused by something else
- Summary
- Scienctific explanations or the origins of the world
- Summary
- design argument
- Children generally believe what their parents tell them so if a child is brought up by religious parents, with a religious upbringing that is based on religious teachings they are more likely to believe in God
- Believing in God
- summary
- Christian upbringing
- Children generally believe what their parents tell them so if a child is brought up by religious parents, with a religious upbringing that is based on religious teachings they are more likely to believe in God
- Christian upbringing
- Parents create an environment in which their children learn about God and see examples of how good Christian life is
- summary
- summary
- Christian upbringing can establish a faith that lasts forever
- Most Christian parents will have their children baptized, take them to church an, send them to Sunday school to learn about christian faith and encourage them to be confirmed as a christian when they are old enough.
- they will also encourage their children to take part in religious festivals which helps them them develop their own faith
- Religious experiances
- Summary
- Religious experiances
- Religious experiances
- Some people begin to believe in God through miracles, answered prays, a numinous experience or a conversion experience, and there are used as evidence of God's existence.
- Summary
- Summary
- there are many different ways people claim to experience God
- 1. religious scriptures- some people believe that the holy book can reveal the nature of God.
- 2. Prayers- this is an attempt to contact God directly and can be thought of as a conversation with God
- 3. miracles these are amazing events that cant be explained by the laws of nature of science.
- 4. numinous experiences- these are feelings of awe, in which a person can "sense" the presence of God.
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