Buble Test 1 Flashcards
Definition of “worldview”:
- A set of basic beliefs, assumptions and values
- which arise from a big story about the world
- and produces individual and group action—human culture
Definition of secularization
Secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of a political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. The view that public education and other matters should be conducted without religious element
Definition of dominion
Being in charge of something or ruling it; having power
Several purposes for our creation
Be fruitful and multiply
Fill the earth
Subdue the earth and have dominion over it
How to “prove it” to non-believers
God is already doing it everywhere at all times, and people just aren’t listening
Similarities between God and man
Human abilities:
Abilities humans need in order to carry out their jobs Self consciousness Rationality Language Emotion Ability to form relationships
Similarities between God and man
Moral nature:
A conscience
A heart that loves
A desire to worship something or someone
Creation mandate
Gen 1:28
“God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”
Ten-thousand hour principle
True mastery of anything takes ten thousand hours of practice
4 hrs a day, 6 days a week, for 8 years
Culture
Is what a particular group of people make of the world.
Who we are
We don’t know who we are without Genesis 1.
You’ll know who you are by knowing who you’re supposed to be imagining