RE: Religion and Life
Section 1: Believing in God
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- Created on: 04-04-13 13:18
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- Section 1 - Believing in God
- Main Features of a Catholic Family
- Baptism - vow to bring children up in a christian way and teach them to be a good catholic
- teach children to believe in God - children believe what their parents say
- Prayer - children are taught to pray - they believe they can't be praying to nothing so God must exist
- Mass - taught to worship - children believe because they see so many people at Mass, it shows god must exist
- Catholic school - teaches about the faith and gives children a further understanding of the catholic so therefore they believe what their teachers say
- Why is it a good thing?
- Keeps the family together with activities
- gives children a sense of belonging and emotional stability
- gives children an understanding of right and wrong and some morals
- Why is it a bad thing?
- means children a brought up on a religion they haven't chosen
- take away a child's freedom to choose a religion
- may work against community cohesion - think other religions are wrong
- Design Argument
- 1. the world has clearly been designed (evidence DNA, laws of science)
- 2. if the world is designed, it needs a designer
- 3. only possible designer is God
- 2. if the world is designed, it needs a designer
- Why are people against?
- No designer would make destructive thins like volcanoes and earthquakes
- science can explain everything without the need for a God
- Doesn't explain extinct animals. Part of the plan?
- the designer doesn't have to be god
- Design - plan to produce something because everything is so complex and well designed like a watch
- 1. the world has clearly been designed (evidence DNA, laws of science)
- Causation Argument
- 1. any effect has a cause and visa versa
- 2. the universe needs a cause to have begun
- 3. God is the only logical cause
- 2. the universe needs a cause to have begun
- Why are people against?
- If everything has a cause, so must God
- Possible that the process has gone on forever
- Perhaps that the universe is an exception - doesn't need a cause
- God doesn't have to be the 1st cause
- 1. any effect has a cause and visa versa
- Main Features of a Catholic Family
- Scientific Explanations
- Matter is eternal
- The Big Bang - Red shift shows that the universe is still expanding
- Evolution
- Gases on the earth's surface produced primitive life - not God
- Why does this lead to atheism or agnostisim
- science can explain the universe and humans - no need for God
- Atheists - if God existed he would be the only explanation for the existance of the universe
- No explanation for God starting the Big Bang
- an omnipotent God wouldn't have created the universe in such a random way
- Catholic Response to Science (proves Gods existance)
- Only God made the Big Bang - to the exact microsecond
- Only God could have made gravity needed for the Big Bang
- Only God could have made the gases needed to react to make life
- Believe Bible and science is right but creation was in order but over millions of years
- Catholic Response to Science (proves Gods existance)
- Only God made the Big Bang - to the exact microsecond
- Only God could have made gravity needed for the Big Bang
- Only God could have made the gases needed to react to make life
- Believe Bible and science is right but creation was in order but over millions of years
- Prayer
- Lead to belief in God
- feels like God is listening to them - have a numinous experience
- Why unanswered prayers may lead to atheism etc.
- feel like no-one is listening
- feel like God doesn't care
- Feel abandoned
- Feel like the problem of evil is too great
- Feel abandoned
- Why people believe unanswered prove God doesn't exist
- If God is all loving he should answer all prayers
- He shouldn't pick and choose his prayers
- If he is all powerful, he should be able to sort out all the prayers
- Catholic Response to unanswered prayer
- prayer may not be answered in the way you expect
- may be praying for selfish things - God teaches you a lesson
- gives us not what we ask for
- God loves us does the right thing for us
- Lead to belief in God
- Why Evil and Suffering may lead to atheism etc.
- Omnipotent
- all-powerful - no power to stop it all
- Omnibenevolent
- all-good - he doesn't care enough to stop all evil
- Omniscient
- He can't predict all the suffering to stop it
- Why does the problem disprove God?
- inconsistant triangle etc....
- Is God evil?
- not powerful?
- Catholic Response to the problem of evil
- God must have a reason but we can;t understand
- free will - it was all good but humans made it to all evil by temptation
- Without bad there wouldn't be good
- We are being tested by temptation before we go into heaven
- Omnipotent
- Kinds of Religious Experience
- Numinous
- something greater must be at work so God must exist
- Conversion
- Feel as if god is calling them
- Miracle
- God is the only logical explanation
- Prayer
- How it stengthens your belief in God
- they feel they had direct contact with God so he must exist
- Why people don't think religious experiences proves God
- Numinous is just awe
- all miracles can be explained
- more unanswered prayers so it's just luck
- all miracles can be explained
- Numinous is just awe
- Numinous
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