What is Man?
We know there is an all-powerful god through a combination of these two faculties that are available to us.
What are faith and reason
For the Christian, life is full of this driving motivation which leads us into seeking God and other goods
What is meaning
This argument suggests that the universe is beautiful, purposeful and oriented to a particular end
What is the teleological argument
The moral argument begins with the understanding that all men have a sense of ______ and ________.
What are right and wrong
This attribute of God argues that a self-existent being cannot be subject to change
What is immutability
We acquire knowledge in these two ways
What are the senses and intellect (or reason)
This faculty in man is a great atribute, but can never fully “justify the ways of God to man”.
What is natural reason
This is the other argument that belongs to the first group of arguments for the existence of God
What is the cosmological arguement
This law produces the sense of right and wrong, shared by all peoples regardless of religion
What is the natural law
Man has these two things, but God has them supereminently
What are understanding and free will
We are conscious that our wills have this characteristic
What is freedom
This person resurfaced the idea that bind chance was the only organizer of the universe
Who was Charles Darwin
This argument proposes that man, by nature, is a religious being
What is the historical arguement
This great figure wrote the “Grammar of Asssent”, arguing that it is our conscience that leads us most directly to a conception of God
Who was Cardinal Newman
This type of being must be infinite in all perfection
What is a self-existent being
Our intellect and reason form this rational “substance”
What is the sould
Some argue that the presence of ______ , harmful insects, disease-carring flies etc. contradict the teleolocal arguement
What are vermin
This law argues that anything that comes into being must have been brought into existence by something else
Many argue today that these elements of life are the only things that truly form our conscience
What are education and environment
God partially reveals himself to us in many different ways, yet will always remain….
What is it to be infinitely incomprehensible
This thought, unique to man, moves him to the deepest core of his being
What are thoughts of immortality
These two great riddles or enigmas of the universe are orth pondering when considering the cosmological argument
What are motion and life
This Greek Philosopher challenged the Teleological arguement
Who was Epicurus
This Latin phrase means, “nothing is made out of nothing”
what is ex nihilo nihil fit
This American poet wrote The Poetic Principle which argue that man has an unquenchable thirst which arises from his immortality
Who was Edgar Allan Poe