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- state of existence
- actuality
- possibility of change
- potentiality
- The metaphysical theory that there is ultimately only one kind of being
- Monism
- The monistic view that the only kind of being is a mental or spiritual being
- Idealism
- argument based on the fact that presently contingent universe requires a present cause; contingent
- Present (current) causality
- "the justification of God"- attempt to reconcile the traditional view of God with the evil in the world
- Theodicy
- the branch of philosophy of religion that seeks to provide a rational jusitification for the truth claims of Christianity
- apologetics
- argument based on chain of causality through or in time which eventually ends with an original or first cause
- original causality
- God is the author of everything and did not create evil
- Privation argument
- knowledge of God based on natural intellect as opposed to revelation
- Natural theology' revelation
- The branch of philosophy concerned with kinds of being or quesitons like, "what kind of beings are there ultimately?," "Does God exist?, "Do universals exist?" etc
- Metaphysics
- that which depends upon something else for its existence
- Contingent
- "God may exist and we can know, I just don't"
- Soft agnostic
- "God may exist but we can't know"- self defeating because knowledge claim about something can't know
- Hard agnostic
- The metaphysical view that there are more than two kinds of being
- Pluralism
- God made everything perfect, one of the perfect things God made was free creatures- cause of evil, imperfecting can arise from the perfect
- Free will argument
- The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature, limits, and kinds of knowledge
- Epistemology
- "there may be a God but I don't know of there is one"- agnostic- a person who says God may exist
- Soft atheist
- an examination of the textural transmission by which documents reach us
- Biographical test
- The monistic view that the only kind of being is material being
- Materialism
- story never really happened, it was all made up by the disciples many years later when they wrote the gospels
- Legend theory
- universe began at point in time by geat explosion; infinite density
- Big bang model
- existing without a perceptible cause
- uncaused
- based on chain of causes through time
- Kalam argument
- The metaphysical view that there are two and only tow kinds of being-- material and mental or spiritual being
- Dualism
- Jesus did not really die on the cross; He swooned, in coolness of the tomb, He woke, moved the stone, overpowered the guards, and appeared before His disciples, claiming to have arisen from the dead
- Swoon theory
- The branch of philosophy concerned with the analysis and formal evaluation of argumentation
- Logic
- an argument for the existence of the universe (kosmos) or part of it and argues back to a first and original cause
- Cosmological argument
- an argument for the existence of God based on the idea of God itself
- Ontological argument
- lack of knowledge; ignorance
- Nescience
- "there is no God" - all knowledge or God could exist outside of your sphere of knowledge
- Hard atheist
- the examination of outside resources of the time that confirm or deny the testimony of the document
- External test
- the document written by authoratative writers who are in a position to attest to its content; does it contain major inconsistencies or contradictions?
- Internal test