Omnipotent Deity Atheist Agnostic Omnibenevolent Polytheist Analogy Impersonal
Omnipotent Deity Atheist Agnostic Omnibenevolent Polytheist Analogy Impersonal Theist Omniscient Trinity Myth Personal Monotheist Holy spirit Omnipresent
LO: What are the Ontological and Cosmological arguments and how do Christians use them to prove God’s existence • List five reasons in your book as to why someone might believe in God.
ALL (E GRADE): Will be able to summarise the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments MOST (C GRADE): Will be able to explain the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments using examples and provide two counter arguments to them both SOME (A GRADE): Will be able to evaluate the Ontological Argument using arguments from Anselm and Kant. Will be able to assess the Cosmological • In pairs you will be given a philosophical argument for the existence of God. • These are quite tricky to get your head around at first! • You will have five minutes to read through your argument and try to understand how it works. • Then you need to try and teach it to your partner. • Cosmological Argument • Ontological Argument LO: To examine the reasons Christians give for believing in God (Ontological and Cosmological)
ALL (E GRADE): Will be able to summarise the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments MOST (C GRADE): Will be able to explain the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments using examples and provide two counter arguments to them both SOME (A GRADE): Will be able to evaluate the Ontological Argument using arguments from Anselm and Kant. Will be able to assess the Cosmological • Who can explain the Cosmological Argument using these pictures? you think any counter-arguments? • St. Thomas Aquinas Can argued that of something cannot come from nothing. Therefore the universe must have a cause – something or someone must • Whybrought does it have to be God as opposed to something else that created world? the have it into existence. Someone or something must havethe started scientists argue it isbe possible to create something nothing! chain • Some of events. Only Godthat could the first cause, back to from which every event universe just‘domino there, and that’s all there is to say. ’ Bertrand Russell can be • ‘The traced (like isthe effect’). LO: To examine the reasons Christians give for believing in God (Ontological and Cosmological)
ALL (E GRADE): Will be able to summarise the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments MOST (C GRADE): Will be able to explain the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments using examples and provide two counter arguments to them both SOME (A GRADE): Will be able to evaluate the Ontological Argument using arguments from Anselm and Kant. Will be able to assess the Cosmological • Who can use this picture to help them explain the Ontological Argument? LO: To examine the reasons Christians give for believing in God (Ontological and Cosmological)
ALL (E GRADE): Will be able to summarise the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments MOST (C GRADE): Will be able to explain the Cosmological and Ontological Arguments using examples and provide two counter arguments to them both SOME (A GRADE): Will be able to evaluate the Ontological Argument using arguments from Anselm and Kant. Will be able to assess the Cosmological The Ontological Argument is a linguistic argument (based on logic & language). Who is the greatest? ‘God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. ’ Can you think of any counter-arguments? • God is the greatest, most perfect thing you can ever imagine. • He must exist otherwise you couldn’t produce this description. • If God is perfect in every way, He must exist in reality. Just because you can think of something doesn’t mean it exists. (Kant) • If He existedbyonly in to the wehuman couldunderstanding imagine a more perfect so God – God is believed many bemind beyond and thinking how could be able to imagine Him? one that existed in theanyone mind and in reality. Therefore, God exists! LO: To examine the reasons Christians give for believing in God (Ontological and Cosmological)
• ‘The Ontological and Cosmological Arguments prove that God exists’. • Give your own opinion to the above statement. • It is perfectly acceptable to reject the arguments and still believe in God! • Whether you support or reject the arguments you must explain why.
• Plenary – which picture / word goes with each argument? First Cause
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