How could religious upbringing lead to a person believing in God?
Being baptised. Going to a C of E school or catholic school. Praying as a family. Celebrating religious festivals. Going to church or sunday school. Family members telling you about their belief in God.
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What are 4 types religious experience?
Numinous. Conversion. Prayer. Miracles.
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What is the Cosmological argument?
It is an argument supporting the existence of God. " The argument tha everything must have been started off (caused) by something else" - St Thomas Aquinas
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What is the Teleological argument?
It is an argument supporting the existence of God. "The idea that things with a function or purpose, must have been created for that purpose"
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What are 3 arguments for not believing in God?
Big Bang. Evolution and natural selection. Unanswered prayer.
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The existence of evil
It is one of the strongest arguments against the existence of God. It exists as two types - moral evil and natural evil.
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The problem of evil
God is thought to be benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent. This is an argument against the existence of God.
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Free will and Evil
Christians say that God gave us free will. This means that we have the right to choose. Christians believe that evil is not a result of God but of the choices that humanity make.
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