Re paper 1, section 1

• Conversion - When life is changed by giving yourself to God
• Free will - humans are free to make their own choices
• Miracle - breaks the law of science, could only be God
• Moral evil - Suffering caused by humans
• Natural evil - suffering humans cant control
• Numinous - feeling the presence of something greater than you
• Omniscient - God know everything that had/will happen
• Prayer - an attempt to contact God, usually through words

Upbringing:

• Baptised, promise to belive in God and be a good Christain
• Taught to pray, worship in church, wouldnt waste time praying to nothing
• Attend church school where everybody believes
• Natural to believe parents and teachers

Experiences:

• Direct contact must exist
• Numinous, conversion and miracles could only be from God
• Has to be someone to answer the prayers, only God

Design:

• Each design has to have a designer, only God
• Couldn't happen by chance, to complet eg. watch
• Shouldnt have designed bad

Causation:

• one thing causes another (each cause has an effect)
• God caused universe, humans etc , could only be him.

Scienctific view:

• Big Band & universe still expanding, evidence for evolution
• No longer need God as an explanation

Religous responce to science:

• God made Big Band timing, laws of gravit and gases react
• Main points in Bible fit with science, eg. Apparent age theory, 7 days would be billions of years.

How it can lead to agnostic/atheist:

• No one to listen
• Would help if he exists

Religious response:

• Answers, but not in the way you would expect
• Learn from selfish thoughts
• have to fit in with his overall plan, ill to enter heaven
• Need not want

How it can lead to agnostic/atheist:

• All powerful, could remove it
• All loving, want to remove it
• omniscience, knew it would happen
• Cant exist otherwise don't have these features

How christians respond:

• Interpret the Bible differently
• Response 1: would have a reason that humans cant understand, follow Jesus teaching to fight against it to help others.
• Respose 2: Humans cause it by misusing free will.
• Response 3: Not a problems as it prepares you for paradise, by improving sould to face evil you become a better person he shows features by using heaven as a reward.