Religion Quiz 3
The desire to do good to others; goodwill; Charitableness
Benevolence
The quality of having unlimited or very great power.
Omnipotence
The state of knowing everything.
Omniscience
God, as the creator of heaven and earth, guides the unfolding universe.
Providence
The collection of Christian sacred writings accepted by the church as inspired by God. Composed of the Old and New Testaments.
Bible
The way in which God reveals himself.
Revelation
An agreement between God and his people.
Covenant
The passing on the Gospel message
Sacred Tradition.
The term for any sacred writing. For Christians, The Old and New Testaments that make up the bible and are recognized as the word of God.
Sacred Scripture
When nature shows proof of God's existence.
Natural Revelation
God's self-communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan.
Divine Revelation
The natural ability human beings have to know and understand truth.
Reason
An attempt to show that the existence of evil doesn't rule out the possibilty of God's existence.
Theodicy
The problem of evil - the three main points
If God is all-knowing, then God must know of the existence of evil in the world.
If God is perfectly good, then God would not want the suffering of any feeling creature.
If God is all-powerful, then God would be able to put an end to all the suffering in the world.
Metaphoric examples:
God is the potter; we are the clay.
The lord is our shepard.
Jesus is the bread of life.
Jesus is the light of the world.
God is the king.
An inner feeling or voice viewed as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of ones behaviour.
Voice of conscience
Signs of Gods existence
Other people hold religious convictions.
The complexity and beauty of the natural world suggests a designer.
The spiritual dimension of human experience could have a divine origin.
Throughout human history, people have worshipped some form of the divine.
The capacity for loving, and being loved, could come from a loving creator.
Often, when people attempt to speak about God, they use metaphors
Theological Language
Arguments of God's existence
If there is no God, Life is ultimately meaningless.
Nothing can cause its own existence, if there is no first, second causes cannot exist.
Beauty reveals God.
The message of creation
The harshness of life gives us a robust texture and character that wouldnt be possible without an imperfect world.