| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Existentialism | Theory of what it means to be a person (existence), system of thought in which we define ourselves by what we dochoice), your life becomes defined by your activity |
| You think of God as infinitely distant | because otherwise you wouldn't be so sure you couldn't know anything about Him. |
| You think of Him as unconcerned about you | because otherwise you'd expect Him to have provided the means for you to know Him. |
| You must picture Him as completely unlike the Biblical portrayal | because in the Biblical account He does care about you and has provided the means for you to know Him already. |
| Non-believer | - “For all I know Christianity might be true, and for all I know it might be false. I have no information either way." |
| Xian | "The difficulty with that line of reasoning is that it presupposes that Christianity is false." |
| Existentialism | Theory of what it means to be a person (existence), system of thought in which we define ourselves by what we do (choice), your life becomes defined by your activity |
| Individual Feelings | are paramount, individual experiences and the choices that come with them are the types of things that shape reality |
| Pantheism | The belief that God and the universe are One and that God is the combined manifestation of all the forces and phenomena in the existing universe. It holds that everything there is constitutes a unity & that this unity is divine. Pantheism denies the distinction between God and the created reality, in fact, it denies all distinction. |
| Self-defeating/ Self-contradictory Arguments- | All this conjunction means is that the argument itself cannot meet its own requirements, the argument CONTRADICTS itself so it cannot be valid (example: “All bachelors are married” this very statement contradicts the meaning of the word “bachelor”-the question defeats itself [self-defeating]) |
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