Comments on: Year 11 Homework: Belief about Deity http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/2011/11/year-11-homework-belief-about-deity-2/ For all of Mr Bigg's RPE students at CVC Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: Mr Bigg http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/2011/11/year-11-homework-belief-about-deity-2/#comment-511 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:04:42 +0000 http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/?p=436#comment-511 It’s quite a tricky one… You need to get into the issue of what a miracle is.

An atheist might say that if God really cared about us he would intervene in our lives more often and so “miracles” would happen all the time. (Is this a reasonable position?)

A believer could argue that miracles would cease to be miraculous if they happened all the time. God isn’t some kind of heavenly Father Christmas who does whatever we ask of him.

This whole thing relates strongly to the problem of evil – why does God let us suffer? Shouldn’t God intervene more often?

HTH

]]> By: Anonymous http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/2011/11/year-11-homework-belief-about-deity-2/#comment-510 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:29:50 +0000 http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/?p=436#comment-510 What should we write about for part E?

]]> By: Mr Bigg http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/2011/11/year-11-homework-belief-about-deity-2/#comment-501 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:44:11 +0000 http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/?p=436#comment-501 Dear Mother Teresa,

Thanks for writing in from beyond the grave!

All you need to say is that “Holy” means special, sacred and set apart.

]]> By: Mother Terisa http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/2011/11/year-11-homework-belief-about-deity-2/#comment-500 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:00:22 +0000 http://mdbigg.me.uk/cvc/?p=436#comment-500 What should we write about the first question?

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