RE: Good & Evil
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- Created on: 11-06-14 08:22
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- RE: Good & Evil
- Nature of God
- Trinity
- God is 3 in 1
- The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit
- Expressed through the Nicene Creed
- God the Father - transendant part of God, the Son as the immanent and personal part, and the Holy Spirit as the immanent yet impersonal part
- Trinity
- Beliefs about God
- Male
- Omnipotent
- Omnibenevolent
- Omniscient
- Supreme
- Divine
- Totally good
- Totally perfect
- Reasons for belief
- Up bringing or a search of meaning
- Brought up by religious parents, and taught religious teachings are more likely to believe in God
- Presence of religion in the world gives some people faith
- People have the desire to believe in something
- Religion is strengthened by feelings experienced through worship
- The search for meaning is a major reason for people becoming interested in a particular religion
- People want answers or find out why life is as it is
- Becoming a follower of a religion in this way is called conversion
- Desire to find out why we are here, or why bad things happen in the world may also explain why people convert religions
- Planet MUST have been designed
- 'Design arguments'
- Such intricate working cannot have occurred by random chance
- Isaac Newton's thumb theory
- because every thumbprint is intricate and unique, there must be a God
- William Paley's watchmaker's theory
- you wouldn't think an intricate watch you found was made by chance - so why believe the world was.
- Albert Einstein
- "When I see all the glories of the cosmos, I can't help but believe that there is a divine hand behind it all."
- Numinous
- Cosmological and teleological argument
- 'Design arguments'
- Up bringing or a search of meaning
- Miracles
- An extraordinary event
- Jesus controls nature
- Inspiring awe and wonder
- Jesus feeds 5000
- Mark 6:30-44
- Jesus walks on water
- Mark 6:45-52
- God has intervened through the Holy Spirit
- Birth, Death, and Resurrection
- Miracles in own right
- Birth, Death, and Resurrection
- Nature of God
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