Religion Test 2

• Classical Theism 


  A traditional philosophical foundation for ideas of supernatural revelation as found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Causality

  We ask why there is something rather than nothing?

  Humans seek a cause for the universe as a whole
• Design

  • The usefulness/purposefulness of the material world
  • Everything is a resource for us to use
  • Showcases the beauty of the world
  • There is an Infinite Mind(higher power) who designed it
• A Reflection on Human Nature

  Why do we have a mind?

  • Human intellect is ordered to truth
  • Human free will Is ordered to good
  • Humans can’t be infinitely good as human intellect and free will is limited
  • We understand goodness and truth can be unlimited
• The Moral Argument 


  Society has universal, unchanging moral norms

  • Unconditional moral norms hold origins in the mind of God

  Society has individual/cultural moral norms

  • Ever changing
• Infinite Knowledge and love 


  Two main qualities of God, shows his nature of infinite being