Apologetics Natural Theology 2018

Design

That which demonstrates order, purpose and complexity.

Necessary Being

A being that cannot not exist

Contingent Being

A being that does not have to exist.

Ontological Arguments

Relating to or based upon being or existence

Cosmological Arguments

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 Arguments

Arguments for God based man's shared universal experience and understanding of himself.

Natural Theology

Theology deriving its knowledge of God from the study of nature independent of special revelation

The Principle of Sufficient Reason

Everything that is has an adequate or sufficient reason as to why it is.

The Principle of Causality

The effect can not be greater than the cause.

Four causes

material, formal, efficient, final

Material cause

According to Aristotle, what a thing is made of.

Formal cause

That which give shape or pattern to the matter that is informed

Efficient cause

an agent that brings a thing into being or initiates a change

Final cause

According to Aristotle, the purpose for which a thing exists.