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Mind Map by lucy Perkins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lucy Perkins
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Believing in God
- Religious Upbringings
- Attend Church/Catholic School
- Take Children
to church on
sundays
- Listen to
parents talk
about faith
and religion.
- Attend Church/Catholic School
- Religious Experiences
- Numinous
- Giving birth
- Giving birth
- Miracles
- Jesus walking on water
- Jesus walking on water
- Conversion
- God is telling
you what to
beieve in -
communicating
with God
- God is telling
you what to
beieve in -
communicating
with God
- Prayers
- God answered many
of moses prayers
- God answered many
of moses prayers
- Numinous
- Design and Causation
- Design
- Argument to prove that God
exists, relies on idea that all
things with purpose have a
desginer
- If God is the designer of the world then he must exist
- If there is a God, then
who designed God?
- Natural things which don't benefit humans at all
- Could be designed by many Gods
- If there is a God, then
who designed God?
- Plenty of evidence that world has been designed-
laws of science, DNA
- Argument to prove that God
exists, relies on idea that all
things with purpose have a
desginer
- Causation
- Everything in the
universe has a
cause
- Mathematical ideas of infinity mean
there doesnt have to be a beginning
- Surely God would need a cause?
- Something might not need to
have a cause
- Mathematical ideas of infinity mean
there doesnt have to be a beginning
- First cause
of universe
must be
omnipotent
- First cause
of universe
must be
God
- Everything in the
universe has a
cause
- Design
- Scientific Explanations of the World
- Big Bang, Oscillating
Universe, Steady State
- Christian Responses
- God started the Big Bang
- Only God could have made sure
that world was made as beautiful
as it is
- Scientific theories are only
ideas, they have not been
proven
- Scientific explanations are
wrong, biblical one is correct
- God started the Big Bang
- Big Bang, Oscillating
Universe, Steady State
- Unanswered Prayers
- How it can lead
to agnosticism
- God can't be all-good
and ignore prayers
- God can't be all-powerful
and not be able to answer
everyones prayers
- God would respond to prayers
of people that believed in him
- God can't be all-good
and ignore prayers
- Christian Responses
- Answer prayers just not in the
way expected
- Life would be chaos if God gave
everyone everything they asked for
- Prayer has to agree with what God wants for
humanity, can't go against will of God
- Answer prayers just not in the
way expected
- How it can lead
to agnosticism
- Evil and Suffering
- If God is all knowing, he will
know natural evil causes
suffering
- If God is all powerful, he is able to stop natural evil
- If God was all good he would want to stop natural
evil, but natural evil still happens
- God does know that evil occurs, doesn't have power
or doesn't want to stop, meaning God doesn't exist.
- Christian Responses
- God gave people free will, they choose to do wrong
- Evil and suffering gives people a chance to do good deeds
so that people can become better
- People never know what Gods reasons are for allowing evil.
Humans aren't as all-knowing and perfect as God
- God gave people free will, they choose to do wrong
- If God is all knowing, he will
know natural evil causes
suffering
- Programmes affecting belief in God
- Use notes in book
- Use notes in book
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