| A | B |
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| awe | feelings of reverential respect mixed with fear & wonder |
| sacred | connected with God (or the gods); special; religious |
| religion | An organized system of ideas about spiritual reality |
| supernatural being | a higher power gods & goddesses |
| prayer | used to attempt to communicate or reach out to the supernatural |
| Transcendental | One of the functions of religion is _______ or to connect believers to “the source” (of power |
| faith | trust in a person or thing |
| rituals | special actions that occur in prescribed order at sacred times or in sacred places |
| Religion | An organized system of ideas about spiritual reality |
| Agnostic | the belief that there can be no proof of the existence of God or higher power…. “don’t know either way” |
| Moral Code | consistent set of rules which establishes right and wrong & righteous behavior |
| Theology | the study of religion |
| Monotheism | religions that believe in one god/higher power |
| Atheism | disbelief in the existence of God; does not abhor religion |
| Polytheistic | religions that believe in more than one god/multiple gods |
| Gnossis | implies knowledge of a higher power; this special knowledge & insight is experiential and intuitive not reasoned or rational. |
| Theism | the idea that there is a spiritual reality; seeks to prove its existence |
| Free Will | the belief that people have the ability to make choices that are independent of the will of god or a higher power |
| Predestination | the belief that all things that happen are predetermined by god or a higher power and cannot be changed |
| Aesthetic Truth | Type of truth that is believable and could be true; “true to life” |
| Historical Truth | Type of truth we know about because there is evidence left behind |
| Moral Truth | Type of truth that is within ourselves; almost like an instinct; for example you know it is wrong to kill or steal. |
| Scientific Truth | Type of truth that can be proven by experiment with empirical evidence |
| Spiritual/Religious Truth | Type of truth that deals with faith and belief; for example a religious person may say they “know God exists.” |
| Ontological argument | Argument for the existence of God that is based on logic & reason |
| Ontological argument | Argument for the existence of God that states if we can conceive of a God then one must exist |
| Teleological argument | Argument for the existence of God that is also known as the watchmaker theory. |
| Teleological argument | Argument for the existence of God that states that because there is a purpose for all living organisms & the universe works in very complex ways there must be a “designer” or a higher power that created the universe |
| Cosmological argument | Argument for the existence of God that is also known as the “first cause” theory |
| Cosmological argument | Argument for the existence of God that believes since nothing can cause itself everything must have a cause including the universe. |
