3.1 Believing in God
A mindmap on section 3.1
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- Believing in God
- Features of a Catholic Upbringing
- Baptism
- Parents tell children about God
- Taught to believe in God
- Pray to God
- Believe God exists as parents would not waste time praying to nothing
- Mass worship God
- Make people believe God exists
- Catholic school
- Taught God exists when they go to school
- Baptism
- Religious experience may lead to a belief in God
- Numinous
- Feel something is greater than you e.g. God
- Conversion
- Feel that God is calling you to do something for him
- Miricle
- Only explanation is God
- Prayer
- Feel God is listening if prayer answered
- Numinous
- Design argument
- Anything designed needs designer
- Evidence world designed e.g. laws of science- gravity
- Only possible designer of universe is God
- Appearance of design proves God exists
- Causation argument
- Cause and effect
- Universe and world has a cause
- God is only logical cause
- God must exist
- Scientific explanation
- 15 billion years ago matter exploded- Big Bang
- Formed stars and solar systems
- Catholic response science
- Most
- Only God coukld have made Big Bang
- Only God could have made laws which matter of BB needed to for solar systems
- God made gases to react to form life
- Some
- Science and Bible are correct
- Main points of Bible creation fit with science
- 1 day represents millions of years
- Most
- Unanswered prayers lead to atheism
- Feel no one is listening to their prayers
- Prayers not answered may feel God does not exist
- Good Catholic and something bad happens, lose faith
- Pray to end war and God does not answer it can lead you to beleive God does not exist
- Catholic response unanswered prayers
- God does not answer selfish prayers
- Prayer may be answered in a way that you don't expect
- God may give us what we need not what we want
- God will answer prayers in a way that is best for us
- Evil and suffering can lead to atheism
- God is omnipotent he must be able to remove evil and suffering
- God is omni-benevolent he must want to remove evil and suffering
- God is omniscient he has the knowledge to remove evil and suffering
- As there is evil and suffering God is not omnipotent, omniscient and omni-benevolent
- Catholic response evil and suffering
- Part of a test preparing people for heaven
- Caused by humans misusing their free will
- Pray for those who are suffering
- God has a reason for evil and suffering that human cannot understand
- Features of a Catholic Upbringing
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