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Name 4 types of Christian upbringings. |
1- Going to Church 2- Saying prayers 3- Going to Sunday school 4- Faith Schools |
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Types of religious experiences that make people believe in God |
1- Feelings of awe (presence of God) 2- Stories of Miracles (E.g terminal illness cures) 3- Conversion (Experiencing something powerful that will make you turn to God) |
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Reasons for Design that make people believe in God |
1- The universe has laws (gravity) 2- The universe has much beauty (suggests someone must have created it) 4- Only God can be responsible |
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Reasons for Causation that make people believe in God |
1- Everything needs a first cause. 2-Universe must have a first cause. 3- Only something powerful could do that (God is all powerful) 4- Therefore God is the first cause. |
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Why do scientists say there is no God? |
1- Big band theory 2- Evolution 3- Fossils 4- Many things in universe are badly designed. 5- If god created the universe then who created God? |
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Why do unanswered prayers suggest there is no God? |
1-An all powerful God would surely have the power to answer all prayers 2- An all loving God would answer someones prayers 3- An all knowing God would listen to all prayers and not ignore them. |
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Why does evil and suffering in the world suggest there's no God? |
1- Would an all powerful God not step in and stop terrible human evil? e.g. death camps. 2- Would a loving God allow natural evil? 3- Would an all knowing God not care enough to stop all types of evil? |
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Explain 3 ways how Christians answer the problems of unanswered prayers. |
1- Some prayers are selfish (asking for gifts) 2- God is like parent (gives us what we need and not what we want) 3- God answers prayers in strange ways (e.g. someone surviving terminal cancer) |
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Explain how Christians respond to Scientific argument |
1- God caused the big bang 2- Apparent age theory ( God made the world look older deliberately) 3- A God day is billions of years |
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Explain how Christians answer the problem of evil and suffering |
1- God wants life to be a test where there is good and evil. This is important to Christians to know who goes to heaven and who goes to hell 2- Moral (human) evil isn't God's fault- humans have free will. 3- Evil and suffering toughen us up- prepare us for 'paradise' |