This document discusses several philosophical concepts related to beliefs about God:
- Deism holds that God created the world but does not intervene in it, leaving it to operate naturally. Pantheism equates God with the world. Panentheism sees the world as contained within God.
- It considers arguments that have been made to disprove God based on causality, morality, and the existence of suffering. However, it also argues that atheism in some ways provides evidence for theism through cosmological, teleological, moral, and design proofs of God's existence.
- Finally, it briefly mentions additional topics like the relationship between God, love, and justice; creation and evolution; Jesus; the
3. Basic beliefs
Complexity of the world, there is a creator.
After creation, left world alone
No miracles or intervention
Reasons for arising
Rise of humanism, moral aspects of religion
Popularity of materialism
Rise of experientialism, experience in life is key.
Against supernatural.
4. God create, why cant God intervene?
God created a mechanical world.
God is a machine
But God is a person.
Deism recognize creation not salvation.
Creation is already a major miracle.
So why not believe in other minor miracles?
5. Basic Belief
Opposite Deism. God = World
Stand
Protons, neutrons and electrons
God =World
Critic
God is close
Equate God to His creation
How can transitional things be eternal?
6. Basic beliefs
Deny God = World
ThinksWorld is a subset of God
Reason for arising
God is not the world
God is not separated from the world
Hybrid theory
Critic
World change, God change.
7. Introduction
Many forms, humanism, materialism and
naturalism.
Disprove proof of God, not prove the converse.
From causality to disprove God
From morality to disprove God
From suffering to disprove God
Critics?
8. Why cant we conclude?
Subjectivity of the truth
9. Atheism gives strongest evidence toTheism
Four proofs
Cosmological Proof
Teleological Proof
Moral Argument
Design Proof
10. God, Gods Love and Justice
Creation and Evolution
Jesus
Bible
Others