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1 Peter 3:15
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but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, akways being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.
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Coexist
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Stream acceptance & tollerance.
All road leads to Heaven. Can't we all get along? |
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Worldview Flowchart:
God Exists: One: Many Polytheism Personal Creator and sustainer Jesus is God/Trinity Christianity |
God Does Not Exists:
Natural lism-Atheism-no purpose Nihilism-Human purpose (Due to existence secular Humanism or Due to essence choice Atheistic Existentialism Non-personal pantheism/new age Creator Deism Jesus is not God/no trinity, Juaism, Islam, Jehovah's witness, church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints |
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Isaiah 65:16
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Our God is the God of Truth.
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John 17:7
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The Word of God is true
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1 John 4:16
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Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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3 Basic World view Structures
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1. Theism (supernaturalism)
2. Naturalism 3. Pantheism |
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5 different kinds of Theism/ Supernaturalism
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A. Abrahamic Religions: (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
B.Deism C. Polytheism D. Animisim-contain spirit E. others |
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Animisim
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Supernatural belief; 1 spirit
- native american beliefs |
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2 Fundamental Differences
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1. Who is Jesus
2. Divine Relationships |
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Deism
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a. Jesus not God (impossible)
b. no revelation (impossible) |
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Judaism
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a) Jesus not God-not the Messiah
b) revelation stops with OT. |
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Christianity
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a. Jesus is the second person in the Trinity (God)
b. Revelation continues with Jesus in the NT |
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Islam
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a. Jesus was a prophet (not God)
b. New Revelation to Mohammad (Koran) |
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Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
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a. Jesus was exalted preexisting spirit (not god)
b. New Revelations (to Joesph Smith and current prophets) |
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Atheism
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no god
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Agnosticism
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doesn't know if God exists. They willing to listen to you and open minded about God.
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Materialism
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All things that exist are material (physical things)
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Nihilism
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No purpose
(a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless) |
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athesitic existentialism (Nihilistic)
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provide for a meaning or purpose
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Monism
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all ultimate reality is one.
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Features of monism
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1.The soul of each human is the soul of the universe
2. Oneness with the universe is passing beyond personality. 3. Oneness with the universe is non-cognitive 4.Oneness with the Universe is beyond good and evil |
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Merges________ with__________
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Pantheism; Western Individuality
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Features of New Age
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1. We create our own reality through mental activity
2. A preoccupation with the "Spiritual" 3. A syncretistic 4. Salvation is found within |
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Jesus
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1. Bear witness to the truth
2. Of the truth of not |
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Pilate
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1. What is truth?
2. NOT of the truth. Pilate not listen to God's voice. |
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Truth in the OT
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a) faithfulness
b) factuality |
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What is 'emet?
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a) our God is the God of Truth (Isiah 65:16)
b) God's word is true (Ps 119:142) |
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Opposite
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deceit, falsehood, and error
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Aletheia
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Factuality (primary)
Completeness (secondary) "I am the TRUE vine.." metaphor |
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What is Aletheia
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The word of God is true: John 17:17
The Gospel is true |
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Opposite (truth in the NT)
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false, imaginary, fallacious and incomplete
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God the Father is the True God
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And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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Holy Spirit is the truth or the Spirit of Truth
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And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 1 John 5:16
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Correspondence Theory of truth
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A statement is true, corresponds to what is real.
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logic
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the proper use of our reason
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metaphysics
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reality, what exists?
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Epistemology
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knowledge, what is knowledge?
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Truth is a relationship between...
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proposition and reality
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Propostion=
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truth claim (true or false test)
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth
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A proposition is true provided there exists a fact corresponding to it.
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Texas 2 Step
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1. Something is either true or false in reality (metaphysics)
2. Someone may know if it is true or false (epistemology) |
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Propostion
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1. Objective
2. True or False in reality 3. Our paradigm propostion "There is a burger in the sack" |
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Beliefs
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1. To believe something is to "hold it to be true"
2. What is it that you believe? 3. Who Generate beliefs? |
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True and False Beliefs
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1. Are all your beliefs true?
2. PROBLEM 3. Reasonable belief= evidence 4. We can know if beliefs are reasonable |
