| A | B |
|---|
| Agnosticism | not being sure if God exists |
| Atheism | Belief that God does not exist |
| Benevolent | Belief that God is good |
| Causation | the idea that everything has been caused (started off) |
| Design | when things are connected, have a purpose, planned |
| Miracle | something which seems to break a law of science and for which God seems the only explanation |
| Moral evil | actions done by humans that cause suffering |
| Natural evil | things which cause sufferingbut are not linked to human action , earthquakes |
| numinous | the feeling of the presence of somethig greater than yourself, God. |
| omnipotent | Belief that God is all powerful |
| omniscient | The belief that god is all knowing |
| prayer | an attempt to communicate with God |
| catholic upbringing | Lining in a catholic family,school and church |
| Paleys watch | The argument that the world has been designed by God |
| problem suffering | If God is good, all powerful and all knowingwhy is there suffering in the world? |
| petition | a type of prayer, saying sorry asking forgiveness |
| intercession | praying for the needs of others |
| praise | praising God for what he is, not what he does |
| meditation | a form of prayer which tries to understand the nature of God through books, rosary etc |
| catechism | the book that contains the rules, teachings of the catholic church |
| Reason why people are theists | they look at the world and feel that it works in a way that looks designed, for example seasons. There must be a designer this is God |
| People believe in god because of the existence of religion | How can all these people who beleive in religion and god be wrong? |
| The ways a christian responds to suffering | prayer,service, the idea of free will, you can not understand GOds will |
| Reasons why people do not beleive in God | science can explain everything, or will br able to in the future |
| problems with miracles that cause people to become atheists | Why does God not help everyone |
| The reasons catholics beleive in miracles | Jesus performed miracles |
| Modern day miracle | In Dunkirk thousends of troops were trapped but after prayers for calm weather they escaped |
