GOD DO
God's divine life present in the souls of his people.
What is "Grace"?
The error of denial of the existence of God
What is "Atheism"?
What is "The Argument from Motion"?
The Theological virtue by which one believes in all God has said and revealed to man and the Church proposes for belief.
What is "Faith"?
A being created by God in order to live in communion with him.
What is a "Religious Being"?
The work and plan of God is observable in nature, thus confirming his existence and continued role in creation.
What is "Intelligent Design"?
Error and a belief that the existence of God cannot be known or proven
What is "Agnosticism"?
The argument for the existence of God that says things cannot cause itself to be. Everything must have been caused by something else. Existence must have come from a first cause, that first cause is God.
What is "The Argument from Causes"?
Greek for "love of knowledge"; the pursuit of truth and understanding through the application of human reason.
What is "Philosophy"?
As opposed to religion informed by Divine Revelation, this is based upon reason and ordinary experience. It shows us that to be human is to be religious.
What is "Natural Religion"?
God's communication of Himself by which He makes known the mystery of His divine plan.
What is "Revelation"?
An error and a philosophy that accepts religious beliefs without grasping their intellectual content
What is "Fideism"?
The argument for the existence of God that states things can be more perfect or true than other things, insofar as they resemble the Most Good and Most True, which is God.
What is "The Argument from Degrees of Perfection"?
A revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the Church.
What is "Dogma"?
When God's reveals himself through the existence through all of creation.
What is "Natural Revelation"?
Supernatural truths about God learned by faith but beyond the grasp of reason
What are "Mysteries"?
The error of judging everything solely and exclusively according to philosophical or scientific reason.
What is "Rationalism"?
The argument for the existence of God that states, "If at one time nothing was in existence, nothing could have ever come to exist, unless there was a necessary being - who must exist, who by necessity has always existed. That being is God."
What is "The Argument from Possibility and Necessity"?
St. Thomas Aquinas' proposals for how the existence of God can be known through reason.
What are the "Five Ways"?
The knowledge of God and his attributes by human reason apart from Revelation.
What is "Natural Theology"?
The process of knowing God's existence because all creation must originate from a First Cause.
What is "The Principle of Causality"
The error that only things that exist are the things science can prove through its very particular, restricted methods.
What is "Scientism"?
The argument for the existence of God that states, "Things ordered in regular patterns and form comprehensive roles are guided by an intelligence. Therefore, objects that lack intelligence - like natural bodies of the sun, moon, and stars - appear to follow a regular pattern by a governing force. That is God."
What is "The Argument from Governance"?
The intellectual power or faculty ordinarily employed to adapt thought or action to some end.
What is "Reason"?
The ethical knowledge acquired by human reason to probe the truth "written on the human heart" as distinct from the moral teaching derived from Scripture and Tradition.
What is "Natural Law"?