Apologetics: Mere Christianity
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21 Terms
The Law of Human Nature
A moral law applied to all humans which can be broken or obeyed. What one ought to do.
Herd Instinct
The instinct to help your fellow man.
Self Preservation Instinct
The desire to preserve your own life in the face of perceived danger.
Materialist View
The view that matter and space just happen to exist.
Religious View
The view that what is behind the universe is more like a mind than it is like anything humans know.
Evil
Spoiled goodness or a lack of the good.
Social convention
The rules that are taught by a particular society.
Cosmological argument
Arguments that attempts to prove God's existence by observing the world around us (the cosmos) from empirical facts about the universe, ( such as effect/cause).
Psychological Argument
Arguments for God based man's shared universal experience and understanding of himself.
Atheism
The denial of the existence of God
Good
when something fulfills its design.
Instinct
An innate typically fixed pattern of behavior in
response to certain stimuli. Impulsive not reasoned.
Divine Law (Aquinas)
More explicit law from God(revealed law), represented in New and Old Testament (10 Commandments)
Eternal Law
The order in creation that reflects God's will and purpose; it is eternal because it is always true and never changes. All other types of law have their basis in Eternal Law and are only true if they reflect the truth of Eternal Law.
Natural Law
Man's participation in the eternal law ,known through the use of reason
Three Characteristics of Natural Law
Permanent, unchanging and universal.
Utilitarianism
idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
Moral relativism
The view that there is no absolute or universal moral law or truth, resulting in a morality determined by cultural factors or personal preference.
Descriptive Law
A law that tells us how nature behaves, describes what is happening.
Prescriptive Law
A law that tells us how we ought to behave
Objective Morality
moral truth that exists independently of opinion.