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What does omnipotent mean? |
All powerful |
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What does this mean god can do? |
Anything even logically impossible things like making a square-circle |
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What does it say in the bible about god doing logically impossible things? |
Mary doubted that she could carry Jesus as a virgin but the angel Gabriel told her ‘Nothing is impossible with God’ and then she had Jesus |
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What does omniscient mean? |
That God is all knowing |
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What does this mean about our thought and the future? |
That god knows what we think and what the future holds for us |
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What does omnipresent mean? |
Present everywhere |
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What does omnibenevolent mean? |
All loving |
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What was god’s greatest act of love? |
Sending his son Jesus down to earth to save us from our sins |
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How does heaven show that god is all loving? |
Because he has provided believers a place after death for eternal joy |
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Why can you pray and have a relationship with god? |
Because he is ‘personal’ |
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What two words describe God as going in forever in space and time? |
Infinite and eternal |
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What does god do at the end of our lives? |
Judge us accordingly |
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How is god believed to be totally just and the perfect judge of human character? |
Because he is all loving and all knowing. Not to mention he has ultimate power and authority |
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God will never support injustice or evil. What does this mean for christian beliefs? |
That they too should oppose these forces whatever they encounter |
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What does monotheism mean? |
Belief in one god |
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In the trinity what is meant by god being ‘the father’ |
The sense of him being the creator of the universe and someone who looks after us like a loving father |
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What is meant by god being ‘the son’ |
In the form of jesus |
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What is meant by god being the ‘Holy Spirit’? |
The idea of God being in all of us, acting like an inner guide or counsellor and helping us along in life |
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How is God like a father to us? |
Because he created us in his vision and loves us as we are his children. He is also merciful fair, and caring about everything and everyone |
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What are the two types of evil? |
Natural and moral evil |
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What is natural evil? |
Earthquakes, eruptions, floods, ext |
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What is moral evil? |
Evil committed by humans such as murder or rape |
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What is a theodicy? |
A possible solution to the problems with evil and suffering |
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what is the free will defence (moral evil) |
That god made us have free will so he is not responsible for our bad things but we are. |
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What is the free will defence (natural evil) |
That a world needs natural evil as a part of the scenery because a world with no natural evil or one in which fire doesn’t burn anyone isn’t logically possible |
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What other theodicy is there regarding the devil |
That he is responsible for moral and natural evil |
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What is the problem with this ‘devil theodicy’ |
Why would God let him get away with it for so long |
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What theodicy regarding Adam and Eve and the original sin is there? |
That we all have the tendency to sin as it has passed down to us like a genetic disease through this original sin |
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What is the problem with this ‘original sin’ theodicy? |
That it does not explain natural evil |
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What theodicy linking to god knowing the future is there? |
That God has made suffering to link to good things later. Like a butterfly effect. And that we can’t appreciate this without having something bad to compare it with |
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What is the problem with these theories? |
That god could have made evil and suffering a little less common |
