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Theist |
A person who believes that there is a God who is directly involved in creation |
Believer |
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Atheist |
A person who believes that there is no God |
Unbeliever |
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Agnostic |
A person who does not know if there is a God |
Stuck between believer and unbeliever |
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Proof |
Evidence that guarantees the truth of something |
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Cosmological (first cause) argument |
A proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there had to be an uncaused cause that made everything else happen, otherwise there would be nothing now. |
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Design ( teleological) argument |
A proof for the existence of God based on the idea that there is so much order and purpose in the universe that it could not have happened by accident-there has to be a designer (God) |
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Religious exprience |
An experience is the awareness that is gained from an event particularly using the senses and emotions. Those who claim to have a religious experience say they have awareness of God through what happened to them e.g visions, voices, and feeling of closeness. |
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Faith |
A commitment to something that goes beyond proof and knowledge, especially used about God and religion |
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What is God |
-God is the supreme being who has no limits in time, space, or power. -God is seen as the creator of the universe. |
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Terms used to describe God |
~ all-powerful (omnipotent) ~ all-knowing (omniscient) ~all-loving (benevolent) |
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Problems with proving the existence of God |
~Human beings can only prove things with our physical senses. ~God cannot be proved by humans using their physical senses as this would be a limited thing, not infinite so not God. ~Evidence like experiencing God through a vision is not valid for other people. ~Only logic can show that God must exist. But is logic proof? |
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The first cause argument (cosmological argument) st Thomas Aquinas |
The three ways |
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The first way |
~ We see things moving ~Things do not move themselves but have to be moved by something else. ~However, that 'something else's had to be moved by something that existed before it. This cannot go back to infinity as there would be no starting movement and therefore no second movement. ~Things must have been moved by something that in itself was not moved by anything else, this is called God. |
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The second way |
~ Everything has a cause. ~Nothing makes itself happen, but everything depends on another thing to make it happen. ~ This cannot go back to infinity as there would be no first cause and so no subsequent cause. ~ There must have been an uncaused cause. This is called God |
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The third way |
~ Everything comes into being and goes out of being, meaning they either exist or do not exist. ~ There must have been a time that there was nothing. ~If there was nothing, then something cannot come from nothing. ~ Therefore something most always have existed. This is called God. |
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Argumeats against The first Cause argument for the existence of God |
The universe started with the big bang- we don't need any explanation. If God was the first thing then who created God? Why does everything have you stop with God? Just because we see things happening a certain way inside the universe does not mean that this applies to everything. Just because there is a creator does not mean that the creator is infinite or perfect. Would a perfect creator make a world with so many things wrong in it? |
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