Believing in God Unit 3
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- Believing in God
- Catholic upbringing
- for
- family kept together
- community
- learn right and wrong
- against
- children can't choose
- no freedom of religion
- against community cohesion
- leads to belief in God
- parents teach children
- parents pray
- brought to mass
- catholic school
- for
- religious experience
- leads to belief in God
- numinous experience
- conversion
- miracle
- prayer
- against
- explanations to miracles
- most prayers unanwered
- numinous - surroundings not God
- leads to belief in God
- argument from design
- for
- designed - needs designer
- evidence world is designed
- world must have designer
- only designer could be God
- against
- scientific theories
- God wouldn't design hazards
- designer may not be God
- for
- argument from causation
- for
- everything has a cause
- God - only logical cause
- gives purpose
- fits with science
- against
- who caused God
- first cause not God
- universe/matter is eternal
- for
- scientific explanations
- lead to atheism and agnosticism
- Big Bang evidence
- evolution
- gases produced primitive life
- catholic response
- God caused Big Bang
- God still designed/caused it
- God's days -billions of years
- lead to atheism and agnosticism
- unanswered prayers
- rejection of belief in God
- God not listening
- God not there
- unselfish prayers unanswered - wrong
- may be a good cathloic
- Catholic response
- God has plans
- many pray selfishly
- God gives us what we need
- answers in a different way
- rejection of belief in God
- evil and suffering
- rejection of belief in God
- omnipotent
- omniscient
- omnibenevolent
- creator/designer
- catholic response
- free will
- preparation for paradise
- wants us to fight against it
- God divine - we don't understand
- rejection of belief in God
- Media
- Bruce Almighty
- suffering caused by free will
- God has reasons - unanswered prayers
- omnipotence
- divine God
- Songs of Praise
- numinous
- community
- Bruce Almighty
- Catholic upbringing
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