knowledge of God's existence

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A way of knowing that depends on the five senses.
Empiricism
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An natural human sense of the divine is something we are born with, not one we acquire.
Innate
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A sense of God, used by Calvin to talk about an innate sense in each of us.
Sensus divinitas
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Voluntary commitment to a belief without the need for complete evidence to support.
Faith
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A form of Christianity which rejects the authority of the Catholic Church and places greater emphasis on the Bible and on personal faith.
Protestantism
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This is when God chooses to let himself be known.
Revelation
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A genre of writing from the ancient world, teaching about wisdom and virtue. In the bible: Proverbs and Jobs.
Wisdom Literature
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theologian behind the teleological argument
Paley
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Drawing a conclusion about the nature and activity of God by using reason and observing the world.
Natural theology
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God’s unconditional and undeserved gifts.
Grace of God
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Where someone is given direct knowledge of God
Immediate revelation
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Sixteenth century protestant theologian, that says all people have an innate sense divinitas (divine sense) that makes it possible for anyone to know God
Calvin
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Where someone gains knowledge of God in a secondary, non-direct way
Mediate revelation
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He compares God's existence to the notion of a father and his children
Barth
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Voluntary commitment to a belief without the need for complete evidence to support.

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A form of Christianity which rejects the authority of the Catholic Church and places greater emphasis on the Bible and on personal faith.

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