GCSE RS - BiG - Religious Upbringing

Christian parents:

• Have children baptisted - promise to raise children to believe in God + be good Christians

• Teach to believe in God

• Teach to pray to God

• Teach to worship God in Church + go to Sunday School

NATURAL to worship God:

• Parents tell children about God so will believe

• God exists because they're not praying to nothing

• Lots of people worship in Church - Believe God exists

• Taught about God's existence so teachers in Sunday School are right

Design - Makes plan to produce something

Religious Believers developed ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN:

• Anything designed needs designer

• Evidence of designs e.g. DNA, GRAVITY

• Only possible designer for UNIVERSE is God

Supports belief in God and may lead others to believe in God

Causation - process of one thing causing another

Driver pressing brake to stop

ARGUMENT OF CAUSATION is:

• Cause and effect - Basic feature of world

• Universe, world, humans must have had a cause

• God is logical cause of universe - God exists

RESPONSE 1:

Bible - God wants Christians to follow example of Jesus

e.g. Healing sick, Feeding hungry - So Christians become nurses/doctors/social workers

Reduce amout of suffering in world

RESPONSE 2:

Given free will - God created world with E+S through humans misusing FREEWILL

E+S caused by humans, not God

RESPONSE 3:

Life is a preparation for paradise - if people improve souls to become GOOD, KIND + LOVING

God gave E+S as a chance to become good people

In the end, God will show OMNI-BENEVOLENCE + OMNIPOTENCEby rewarding good in heaven

RESPONSE 4:

Some Christians believe God not using powers to remove evil and suffering

Humans cannot understand - God is divine+ no human can understand his thoughts