Believing in God Key Words

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Conversion:
When your life is changed by giving yourself to God.
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Miracle:
Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it.
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Numinous:
The feeling of the presence of something greater than you.
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Prayer:
An attempt to contact God, usually through words.
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Agnosticism:
Not being sure whether God exists.
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Atheism:
Believing that God does not exist.
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Free Will:
The idea humans are free to make their own choices.
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Moral Evil:
Actions done by humans that cause suffering.
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Natural Evil:
Things which cause suffering that have nothing to do with humans.
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Omnipotent:
The belief that God is all-powerful.
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Omniscient:
The belief that God kniws everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.
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Omnibenevolent:
The belief that God is all-loving.
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Design:
When something has been made for a purpose.
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Causation:
The process whereby one thing causes another. It is often known as cause and effect.
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How Does A Religious Upbringing Cause A Belief In God:
1)Baptism- part of God's family, automatically believe. 2) Prayer- you feel you are talking to someone. 3) Mass - see other worshippers who can't be wrong. 4) Catholic schools - Re lessons taught about God.
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How Could A Religious Upbringing Cause Atheism:
1) In school you meet atheists. 2) In school - science - the Big Bang & Evolution. 3) Unanswered prayers.
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Religious Experiences:
1) Numinous - only God is omnipotent. 2) Conversion - only God could do that. 3) Miracles - God = only explanation. 4) Prayer - he must be there if you are talking to him.
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How Could A Religious Experiences Cause Atheism:
1) Numinous might not be God. 2) Unanswered prayers. 3) Miracles now but in the future there maybe answers.
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Causation Argument:
1) Only God is eternal and Ex Nihilo. 2) Only God is omnipotent. 3) God is the only logical cause. 4) Must have been caused by something omniscient.
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Causation Argument Rejection:
1) If everything has a cause so does God. 2) Matter is eternal. 3) The Big Bang - 15 billion years ago.
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Design Argument:
1) Too perfect - only omnibenevolent God would give us what we need. 2) Design takes intelligence and thought - omniscient. 3) Only an omnipotent God could create design. 4) So complex - William Paley.
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Design Argument Rejection:
1) Natural evil. 2) Other answers in the future 3) Evolution. 4) Only proves there was a designer.
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Scientific Explanations:
1) Based on evidence. 2) Matter is eternal. 3) 15 billion years ago. 4) Fossil record shows evolution - no design. 5) Evolution disproves Genesis.
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Religious Counter Arguments:
1) Big Bang needed perfect timing - only God could plan and carry out. 2) God could have made scientific laws. 3) We have erything we need to survive. 4) 1 God day = 1 billion human years.
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Unanswered Prayers Cause Rejection:
1) No one listening - no one there. 2) No reply - no one there. 3) If God = omnibenevolent he would answer unselfish prayers. 4) Seems answers are pure chance.
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Theist responses:
1) God answers prayers - no, maybe, wait eg. 2) Answers in your best interests - multipliar effect. 3) No such thing as unselfish prayers. 4) God answers in ways we do not know.
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The Problem of Evil:
1) Omnibenevolent. 2) Omniscient. 3) Omnipotent. 4) Innocents suffer and people pray for it to stop.
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Theist Response:
1) Free will. 2) Should not question 'the plan'. 3) Life is a test - we respond - doctors. 4) Not omniscient we do not know.
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Bruce Almighty - Media
1) Explains free will concept. 2) Explains unanswered prayers. 3) Shows God is real and interacts with the world. 4) God can do things no one else can.
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