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Belief About Deity
- Christians are
monotheists.
- Only believe in
one god
- God is eternal,
omnipotent, omniscient,
and benevolent
- Omnipotent: god
is all powerful
- Omniscient: god
is all knowing
- benevolent:
god is all good
- Eternal; has no
beginning or end
- God is the creator
and judge of all
- God in 3
forms; Father,
Son, Holy
Spirit
- God the Father created the
world, loves everyone like a
father
- God the Son, came down to earth, sacrificed
himself to free man of all their sins and was
resurrected
- God the Holy Spirit,
gives courage and helps,
exists in those who have
faith, normally symbolised
as being a Dove, symbol
of Peace
- Reasons Christians
Give For Believing in
God!
- The Cosmological
Argument: the universe
must have been made
by God because it
couldn't have been made
itself.
- The design argument:
the universe has
evidence of being
designed according to
plan, supported by the
story of Paleys watch
- William Paley came up with
the design theory. He
suggested that if you found a
pockey watch and opened the
back up, you would see
evidence of a skilful
watchmaker, a desugner. He
then said if you look at the
earth, you have to conclude
that there is a skilful designer
that designed it. This he
argues has to be God
- Morality: right and wrong
and our knowledge about
existing
- Personal experience
- Family Upbringing
- The first cause theory. This theory simply
means that God is the first cause. You can't
have something beginning from nothing. God
caused the big bang!
- Reasons Non-believers
give for not believing in
God.
- The universe could of
began by chance
- Being brought up to
believe God doesn't
exist
- Some things in the world
are badly dsigned
- Not everyone
understands right and
wrong in the same way.
- evolution
- Miracles
- something which breaks the rules
of natural law
- Most Christians belief that Jesus
performed miracles during his life to
show that he is the son of God
- The greatest miracle: the resurrection of God.
Most Christians believe that Jesus coming back to
life was the biggest miracle.
- Other miracles that Jesus performed was:
turning water into wine, fed the 5 thousand,
and gave a blind man his sight
- Many Christians visit Lourdes today
in the hope they might receive a
miracle