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Religion and Worldview:
All religions can be understood in six dimensions:
- Sacred Narrative
- Doctrine
- Ritual
- Social and institutional expression
- Experience
- Ethics
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Halverson - Worldview definition:
A comprehensive view of reality in terms of which one attempt to understand and 'place' everything that comes before one's consciousness.
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Worldviews can be held at:
- Various levels of certainty and commitment
- Various degrees of integrity and consistency
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The Christian worldview aims at...
Biblical truth.
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We cannot defend something of which...
we are ignorant.
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Source of Ultimate Authority:
- The Scriptures
- (properly interpreted and applied)
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The ultimate source of all truth is...
- God
- (whether recorded in Scripture or not)
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Epistemology
How we know what we know.
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We are personal beings who can detect...
God's fingerprints in creation and his voice in conscience and through Scripture.
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Objective truth is...
knowable.
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In a nutshell, the Christian worldview can be organized in three broad categories:
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Christian metaphysics allows for...
No property, power or principle deeper than that of the divine person himself.
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God is one with respect to _____________, but God is three with respect to _______________.
- deity (Godhead)
- persons (Trinity)
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While God is essentially __________ and _______, his is no less _________ or __________.
- invisible - immaterial
- personal - relational
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Chesterton's quip: "It is not God...
for God to be alone."
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The loudest and oddest question mark in the cosmos is...
Humans
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Humans are more like _________ than anything in the universe, bu they fall short of the _______.
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"Original Sin"
A constitutional corruption that has been passed down to every human being (except Jesus).
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Humans are the only part of the universe that can...
- consciously return praise to God
- curse our Maker
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C.S. Lewis: "There are only two kinds of people in the end:
- those who say to God, 'Thy will be done'
- those to whom God says, 'thy will be done'
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Ethics is anchored in...
the reality of a personal and moral God who is free to interact with his creation in order to impact moral knowledge.
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