Revision Questions

Believing in God

1. Explain how religious experiences might make someone believe in God. Refer to at least three different types of experiences.
2. "The World has been designed by God." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
3. Why does the fact that evil and suffering exist in the world make it difficult to believe in God?
4. Write down one response to the problem of evil and suffering from Christianity and one from another religion.
5. "Miracles do not happen today." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
6. "The way the world works shows there must be a God." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
7. "There is no evidence God exists." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
8. "If God is good and powerful, evil should not exist." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
9. "No one can be sure God exists." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
10. Outline the main features of a religious upbringing in Christianity.
11. Outline the main features of a religious upbringing in Judaism.
12. Outline one religious response to the problem of evil.
13. "Children should be allowed to make up their own minds about whether to believe in God." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.
14. Describe the various forms of the Cosmological Argument.
15. What is the point behind the story of William Paley's watch?
16. What was St Thomas Aquinas's point about causation and/or motion in asserting that God must exist?
17. Why is the story of Job in the bible important in trying to understand the problem of suffering?
18. What is the significance of the Nitrogen Cycle in the arguments to demonstrate the existence of God?
19. State, with examples, what is meant by moral evil.
20. Explain how the appearance of design in the world might lead to or support belief in God.
21. Describe ONE miracle.
22. What is agnosticism?
23. "God must exist because so many people believe in Him." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion, showing you have considered another point of view.