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Mind Map by Grace Pulling, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Grace Pulling
about 11 years ago
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Belief
about Deity
- Describing God
- Protector, sustainer,
eternal, creator, king,
judge fortress, mother,
father, just, law giver,
understanding, loving,
patient, calm,
compassionate,
gracious, merciful,
forgiving, faithful.
- The Parable
of the
Prodigal Son
- The Goodness of God
- Creation, Miracles,
answers prayers,
heals people,
Jesus' Crucifixion +
Resurrection,
Benevolent
- Creation, Miracles,
answers prayers,
heals people,
Jesus' Crucifixion +
Resurrection,
Benevolent
- Omnipotent,
Omniscient,
Omnipresent,
Personal
+Immanent,
Impersonal +
Transcendent
- The Trinity
- Father
Annotations:
- Refer to Images of God
- Son: Jesus, God Incarnate,
completely human + God,
free of sin, resurrected to
show that God has power
over death, immaculate
conception, teach humans.
- Holy Spirit: immaculate
conception, comforter +
guide, paraclete,
destroys bad things,
cleanses, gives life
- Evidence:
Jesus' baptism
- Father
- Protector, sustainer,
eternal, creator, king,
judge fortress, mother,
father, just, law giver,
understanding, loving,
patient, calm,
compassionate,
gracious, merciful,
forgiving, faithful.
- Christianity =
Monotheistic
- Arguments
+ Reasons
- Cosmological Argument
- 1. Everything must have a cause
- 2. The universe exists
- 3. What caused the universe?
- 4. There must be a first cause
- 5. The first cause is God
- Domino Analogy
- Big Bang -
Mechanism
- Against: Does God
have to be the first
cause? Evolution -
Random Chance.
Who cause God?
- For: Cause +
Effect, Evolution
- Aquinas
- 1. Everything must have a cause
- Teleological Argument
- Watch Analogy: Intricate
Design, therefore there
must be a designer.
- Applies to World - God
is designer, can not fall
together by chance.
- Applies to World - God
is designer, can not fall
together by chance.
- Telos + Purpose
- For: evolution as
evidence of design, the
world was designed
just right for us.
- Against: Is the world
perfectly designed?
Comparisons please??
Evolution - we have had
to adapt to environment.
- Paley
- Watch Analogy: Intricate
Design, therefore there
must be a designer.
- Religious
Experience
- Encounter, Visions, Miracles,
Conversions, Manifestations,
inexplicable by science.
- Examples: Moses +
the Burning Bush, CS
Louis, Lourdes
- Against: Bible - many years
ago, yet to know full extent
of medicine + science.
- For: Take into account
by face value, life
dramatically changed
- For: Take into account
by face value, life
dramatically changed
- Examples: Moses +
the Burning Bush, CS
Louis, Lourdes
- Encounter, Visions, Miracles,
Conversions, Manifestations,
inexplicable by science.
- Moral
Argument
- Humankind has
a sense of good
and bad (moral
compass)
- Innate
from God
- Theories: Hastings Rashdall:
God exists because we act
morally. Cardinal John Henry
Newman: Conscience +
sense of guilt is God's voice
guiding us to goodness.
- Innate
from God
- For: Human
goodness
must be God
inspired
- Against: Morality
is not universal,
morality is based
on the society in
which you live.
- Humankind has
a sense of good
and bad (moral
compass)
- Religious
Upbringing
- Communion,
confirmation,
reading bible,
being brought up
within Christianity,
belief in God,
Baptism/cleansing
from sin.
- For: Only outlook
on religion, being
brought up with
this religion offers
stability.
- Against:
Indoctrination,
no one offers
another view.
- Against:
Indoctrination,
no one offers
another view.
- Communion,
confirmation,
reading bible,
being brought up
within Christianity,
belief in God,
Baptism/cleansing
from sin.
- Cosmological Argument
- God Intervening
in the World
- Through Miracles
- Healing, Nature, Raising
the Dead, Exorcisms
- Paralysed man, Jesus feeds
5000, Raising Lazarus +
Jesus, Man Healed from Jesus
- Paralysed man, Jesus feeds
5000, Raising Lazarus +
Jesus, Man Healed from Jesus
- Event that goes against the
laws of nature that must be
the intervention of God
- Lourdes: 67 approved
- Why? Prove existence,
show power, reinforce
beliefs regarding deity,
imminence, compassion,
challenge non-believer,
establish kingdom
- Healing, Nature, Raising
the Dead, Exorcisms
- Through Jesus
- Human +
Divine. Savior.
Eternal
- Human +
Divine. Savior.
Eternal
- Through the Holy Spirit
- Guides people to
live with good
Qualities - The
Fruit of the Spirit.
Charismatic Gifts.
Story of Pentecost.
- Why? leads people to
good sense of morality.
Reach out to people
over broad spectrum.
give love and joy.
- Why? leads people to
good sense of morality.
Reach out to people
over broad spectrum.
give love and joy.
- Guides people to
live with good
Qualities - The
Fruit of the Spirit.
Charismatic Gifts.
Story of Pentecost.
- Through Miracles
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