RE Unit 3 and a bit of 10 revision

• If parents tell them, children will believe in God
• If they see parents pray to God, they will believe because they don't believe parents would waste time like that
• Seeing so many worship God at mass, will make them believe
• In a catholic school they are taught by teachers, who are meant to guide them.

• Numinous > Awereness of something greater > God
• Conversion > Want to change lives, with great passion > Calling to God
• Miracles > Breaks laws of Science > Only God could so this
• Prayer > Prayer intentions are answered > Must be by God

• Anything that has been designed needs a designer
• Evidence in DNA that the world has a design
• Design requires omnipotence which is only God
• Laws of Physics work in sync, htis can only be done by God

• Everything has a cause and effect
• Means humans must have a cause
• God is the only logical solution
• Therefore he must exist

• Gases on earth formed primitive life
• Matter is eternal > No heaven/Hell
• Evolution > similar DNA > We are not special or chosen by God
• Red shift > UNiverse wasn't made like said in Bible

• Only God could make Big Bang happen
• Only God could make the laws of gravity for stars etc
• Only God could make gases react to form life
• God's time is different and still fit in with science

• Say prayers but don't feel presence
• Unanswered prayers
• Try to be good but still feel punished by life despite praying
• Natural disasters > If they pray for this and it doesn't end, how could an omnibenevolant God exist?

• Some things are for the better so that you learn what is right
• God has different plans
• What we need rather than ask for
• May not be a direct answer

• If Omnipotent he would have the power to remove suffering
• If Omnibenevolent he must want to remove suffering
• If existent then he doesn't exist
• If Omniscient he would know the evil that would come from the world and wouldnt make it becasue he is onmibenelovent

• God has a reason but we can't understand
• Free will caused it
• Evil is a test for paradise
• Cathechism > He is mysterious 

• Gospels > Jesus
• St.Pauls teches of people having a ressurection
• Creeds
• Catechism
• Life Purpose

• Try to live a good life by following teachings of the church
• Follow two greatest commandments; love of God and neighbour
• Sheep and Goat we are told to 'feed the hungry' so they support chairites
• Avoid sin

• Near death experiences
• Evidence of spirit world; Mediums
• Evidence of spirit world: Ouja boards
• Evidence of reincarnation

• Atheists > no God > no spirit world
• Religions contradict each other
• Evidence of the paranormal has been challenged by science
• There is no place for it

• Some say life begins at conception
• Some say life begins when foetus can survive outside of mother
• Woman should have a right to do her will with her body
• Unborn child's right is greater than the mother's

Catholics:

• arbortion is wrong > belongs to God in all circumstances
• It is taking a life > murder > banned in the 10 commandments
• Catechism says its wrong
• Adoption is an alternative

Liberal Protestants:

• Life doesn't begin at conception
• Abortion may be removing suffering (loving neighbour)
• Sanctity of life is broken in war, why not this?
• Parents should be allowed if their child will have a disease

• doubt whether person wants it
• a cure could be found
• doctors want to save lives not end them
• people might change their minds but it would be too late

• rather than being in agony euthanasia is better
• doctors can switch of life support so this is already legal
• right to suicide so why not this?

• sanctity of life > not up to humans to decide when a life is to end
• Euthanasia is murder > forbidden in10 commandments
• If brain dead > already dead > switching off the machine is accepting God's will
• Painkillers to help but they end up killing > good intentions (doctorine of double effect)
• Bible forbids suicide
• life is sacred and should only be take by God

A less common viewpoint:

• God may wish someone to die but is keeping them alive
• loving a neighbour can justify it

Against freedom

• stirs up hatred
• offence
• blasphemy
• religion is beyond human critique

For freedom

• basic human right (freedom of speech)
• Religious leaders use media to make statementsthey must accept other views
• In a multifaith society there must be freedom of religious expression
• So important that the public want to be informed

• Natural disasters
• Debt
• Wars
• Unfair trade
• HIV/AIDS
• Other: lack of educations, skills etc. 

• development programmes; clinics, training, saving schemes
• disaster fund
• 5% of money goes to rasing awareness and educating people on campaigns
• Speaking out for poor communities; 'make poverty history campaign'

• New testament > riches should be used for the help of the poor
• Sheep and Goats parable
• Sermon on the mount
• Golden rule
• Catechism > it is our duty

• through the church people come to believe in christianity
• Apostolic tradition is passed down meaning the true faith is passed down
• only the magisterium can teach the faith so the true faith is in the church
• people learn to have faith in the sacraments in church

• teaches the one true faith handed down by apostles
• faith is nesseccary for salvation
• church provides a place where people can become believers
• sacraments provide people with support to be a good catholic

• baptism washes away sins
• Reconciliation
• penetential rite
• confirmation > gifts of the holy spirit

• sins prevent from being with god
• gives a clear path to salvation
• shows  that salvation is a continuous process 
• it gives people a chance to find the right path on their life journey

• all christinas carry christ's work on earth
• the work of christ didn't end with the ascension
• recieving the body of christ unites the church all in one
• through batism a person is made a member of the church, of the body of people

• this is how it is described in the new testament
• explains the impirtance of mass
• shows how christians continue to work of jesus
• talents and tasks that god gifted us with in unity