Religious Figures
Gods & Goddesses
Sacred Texts
Famous American Preachers
Attempted Proofs for the Existence of God
100
This man lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Moses?
100
This Hindu god was given an elephant's head by his father.
Who is Ganesh?
100
These are proclamations of the 'good news' concerning the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
What are the Gospels?
100
This famous American preacher was considered the voice of the civil rights movement and led the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
100
Since the concept of a perfect being must include existence if it's perfect, the perfect being must exist.
What is the ontological proof?
200
He was the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages.
Who is Maimonides?
200
This Hindu god counts Krishna and Rama among his many avatars.
Who is Vishnu?
200
In Judaism, this document was given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
What is the Torah?
200
This famous American preacher wrote the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
Since nature seems to have an order and all order requires an ordering mind, God must exist.
What is the cosmological proof?
300
This person was a Hindu prince prior to becoming the "Awakened One."
Who is the Buddha?
300
The neck of this Hindu god is blue from drinking the poison during the Churning of the Ocean.
Who is Shiva?
300
These are the oldest texts in the Hindu tradition, are attributed to the Aryans, and used in the ritual performance of fire sacrifices to the gods.
What are the Vedas?
300
This famous American preacher played baseball for the Chicago White Sox before becoming one of the most famous revivalists of the 20th century.
Who is Billy Sunday?
300
Since all things are contingent (might not have existed), there might have been no things at all. But there are things. Therefore there must have been a necessary being to change nothing into something.
What is the argument from necessary being?
400
This is the German monk who sparked the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
This ancient Chinese goddess created human beings by molding them from mud.
Who is Nuwa?
400
This fundamental Daoist classic was purportedly written by Laozi; it literally means the 'Scripture of the Way and Its Potent Manifestation.'
What is the Dao De Ching?
400
This famous American preacher was the first woman to hold a broadcast radio license and was the founder of her own denomination, the International Church of the Four Square Gospel.
Who is Aimee Semple McPherson?
400
Since all things are the effects of prior causes, there must have a cause without any prior cause if the regress of causes is not going to be infinite, and therefore have no beginning.
What is the argument from first cause?
500
This Islamic figure is the grandson of Muhammad whose martyrdom is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims every year.
Who is Husayn?
500
This Japanese god is the brother of the Sun goddess and is known trickster.
Who is Susano-o?
500
This is a body of literature concerning the previous lives of the Buddha.
What are jatakas?
500
This television evangelist, famous for his tearful, televised confession of adultery, is the cousin of 1950s rock-and-roll bad boy Jerry Lee Lewis.
Who is Jimmy Swaggart?
500
Since everything in the universe is moving, there must be something that moves all things but is not itself moved, and that is God.
What is the unmoved mover argument?
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