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What are the 7 questions worldviews answer?
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-What is the prime reality?
-What is external reality? -What is a human being? -What happens to a person at death? -Why is it possible to know anything at all? -How do we know what’s right and wrong? -What is the meaning of human history? |
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· What is Sire’s main objection to the ethic of Deism?
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-Relativism is not OK
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· What does Sire say about the way Naturalists integrate their worldview?
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-Inconsistent, not logically sound
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· What is the main difference between naturalism and nihilism?
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-Degree to which the world-view is taken seriously; Nihilism taken more seriously
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· Why does the professor say Deism is alive and well today?
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-People believe God exists but don’t expect Him to do anything
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· According to Sire, what is the main difference between Existentialism and Naturalism?
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Existentialism affirms human value with no basis
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· According to the lectures, what would be an effective way to witness to a Pantheistic Monist or New Ager?
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-Pantheistic Monist: Does Pantheistic Monism match up with reality? NO
-New Ager: NA is a completely selfish WV |
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· What is the main difference between New Age and Pantheistic monism?
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-PM supports holistic nature where NA supports an Individualistic nature
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· What is the main difference between postmodernism and existentialism?
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-PoMods are not willing to make truth claims, Exis can
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· What is an inherent self-contradiction of postmodernism?
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All reality is unknown
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· According to the lecture, to what type of tolerance are Christians called?
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Negative tolerance
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· What type of behavior is wrong, according to postmoderns?
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-Nothing
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· What are the 7 arguments for God?
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-Cosmological, Ontological, Moral, Anthropological, Experiential, Historical, Incarnational
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· What is the Jesus Trilemma?
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-Liar, Lunatic, or Lord
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5 Beliefs about the Bible?
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-Hoax, Myth, Mistake, Redaction, Truth
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What are some of the books (Mere Christianity) greatest contributions?
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-Jesus trilemma, moral existence of God
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