revelation
- Created by: laurenellxs
- Created on: 20-03-19 09:51
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- types of revelation
- other people
- conscience
- natural world
- prophecy
- experience
- miracle
- dream
- scripture
- morality
- vision
- general (indirect) revelation
- called general/indirect because it is available to everyone, often used to describe the way God is revealed through the natural world: conscience, people, awareness of morality, scripture or reason
- special (direct) revelation
- called special/direct because it is revelation directly to an individual or sometimes a group, often used to describe the way God is revealed: through a dream, vision, miracle, experience or prophecy
- arguments against the idea of revelation
- natural world-the beauty and complexity of the world is true, but can be explained by science rather than God
- conscience-an inner feeling about what is wrong and right was not placed there by God but taught to us by parents and others
- goodness-people do good deeds because they are good people, many nonreligious people do good deeds
- morality-people societies have to cooperate in order for society to survive
- scriptures-to the nonreligious scriptures were written by people, they reveal what those people believed, not things about God
- dreams and visions-neuroscience and psychology can partially explain them, just because they arent yet fully understood doesnt mean God is the reason for them
- miracles-there is no factual evidence for them, if we can't even know they happened we certainly can't know they are revelations of God
- prophecies-if they come true, they must have been possible, and reveal more about the mathematical laws of probability than they do of God.
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