15 Mark Question

How it supports religious faith:

• When added to other arguments and reasons for the existance in God the reasons for believing in God are strengthened.
• Aruguments support religious people's already existing faith in God. Fideism = religious beliefs cannot be justified by rational means, only through faith.
• People with faith will look at the universe and see motion and change and cause and effect and accept that they were bought about by God.
• An atheist will see the universe as the result of random chance because they don't have religious faith.
• God is unique and the laws of nature do not apply to God, so God can be infinite.

How it doesn't support religious faith:

• Bertrand Russell said the universe is simply a "brute fact." God can neither be proven nor disproven whatever evidence is presented. So arguments for the existance of God have no value.
• Even if there was a first cause of the universe there is no evidence of this God being the God of classical theism.
• Hume said the first cause could be the material, physical world rather than God.
• Aquinas and Craig contradict themselves when they reject the possibility of the infinite - they both believe in an infinte God but deny an infinite universe.