Does God Exist? Test

Ontological argument

Logic in believing in God

Cosmological argument

Reflects order in creation; shows God as creator of the Cosmos

Pragmatic Argument

Usefulness in believing in God

Experimental argument

Existence of God is reasonable; Anthropic principle: evolution has a purpose

Theism

Belief in God (ex. St. Thomas Aquias, William Paley)

Atheist

Doesn’t believe in God (ex. Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche)

Deism

Belief in existence of God on purely rational grounds; separation of church and state (Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Pain, Madison)

Agnostism

Doesn’t know if there is a god

John Henry Newman

The Experience of Beauty and Goodness, The Testimony of Conscience, The Trustworthiness of Reality, Our Own Religious Experience

T/F Jefferson, Washington, Etc were deists

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T/F John Henry Newman had many experiences to point to the existence of God

T

T/F Belief in God is a matter of faith

T

John Cume… concluded existence of God can be proved

F

Diets saw God as a personal God and believed in power of prayer

F

Transcendent

Not tied to time or space

Omnipotent

God is all-powerful

Eternal

God is without beginning or end

Immanent

God is closed to us and involved in our lives

Personal

God has qualities similar to human beings

Omniscient

God koans all that is, was, and will ever be