Arguments for the existence of God
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- Created on: 05-06-16 16:03
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- Arguments for the existence of God
- First cause argument
- 1. Everything that exists was cause to exist
- 2. The universe exists so it must have a cause
- 3. There had to be something eternal and not caused to cause the universe
- 4. The eternal, uncaused cause is God
- 5. Therefore God exists
- Design argument
- William Paley (Watch)
- 1.Walk across country, see watch
- 2. Open back of watch, has complex mechanisms
- 3. Conclude watch has not made its self, must has a designer
- 4. Universe is much more complicated than a watch, must have a designer
- 5. The designer must be God
- Religious experience
- Conversion
- A positive change in a persons life whereby their beliefs and actions are changed
- Prayer
- Speaking and listening to God; Drawing strength from God
- Feeling Gods presence
- A sense that God is closed or with you, often experienced during worship
- Miracle
- An event caused by God which either breaks the laws of natures or brings an unexpected outcome
- Visions
- Seeing or hearing non physical realities
- Conversion
- Moral argument
- 1. People all tent to agree on the basics of whats wrong and whats right
- 2. Therefore that sense of morality must be 'built in' to humans
- 3. This built in sense of morality must come from somewhere; a source outside them
- 4. This source we call God
- 5. Therefore God exists
- First cause argument
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