Chapter 2

Question 1

Who said “Faith is not simply a set of beliefs that religious people have. It is something that all human beings do.”?

Answer 1

Sharon Daloz Parks

Question 2

confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing that does not rely purely on logical proof or material evidence to arrive at such a conclusion

Answer 2

Faith

Question 3

What is an existential premise?

Answer 3

What we believe about why we exist

Question 4

Who said “Faith is more adequately recognized as the activity of seeking and discovering meaning in the most comprehensive dimensions of our experience.”?

Answer 4

Sharon Parks

Question 5

What is faith (verb)?

Answer 5

Making a guess based on the logic and evidence from the present to a world beyond evidence and logic

Question 6

What is faith (noun)?

Answer 6

The existential premises that define what we believe how and why we are here on earth.

Question 7

Name the three existential questions.

Answer 7

How did I come into existence?
Why do I exist?
Where does my existence lead?

Question 8

What assumption is the Life Calling Model based on?

Answer 8

That there is a pattern to the universe that includes each person as a part of that pattern in some way.

Question 9

The study of sciences searches for what kind of patterns?

Answer 9

Observed, measured, and predicted

Question 10

What is the Chaos Theory?

Answer 10

We observe random data, but over time a pattern will occur. (Dice)

Question 11

What is a definite pattern with a definite separate designer that has initiated the pattern and may continue to do so?

Answer 11

A theistic design

Question 12

How do patterns with intentions answer questions?

Answer 12

“How” the universe will occur and “why” the universe will occur.

Question 13

What is faith related to patterns?

Answer 13

derives from facts and the assumptions we make about those facts.

Question 14

What is faith related to intentions?

Answer 14

Faith related to intention, while incorporating some observable facts, relies much more on assumptions, intuition, and beliefs.

Question 15

What does faith emerge from?

Answer 15

A combination of facts, assumptions, and beliefs

Question 16

Factors that determine where we are about faith in a philosophical pattern spectrum

Answer 16

1. what we have been told by the culture and subculture in which we have grown up.
2. A second factor relates to the conclusions we have drawn from our own observations.
3. Finally, our conclusions about an intentional pattern will be impacted by ‘personal encounters with mystical experiences that take place beyond the realm of objective observation and explanation.’

Question 17

What are the two faith actions in forming our mindset?

Answer 17

Noun-action (describing)

Verb-action (activities)

Question 18

“The greater our assumption that we are intentionally meant to be here, the greater will be the potential to discover a purpose for our lives.” Who wrote this and what did he call it?

Answer 18

Richard Leider (1997). “Power of Purpose”

Question 19

What is something science cannot measure?

Answer 19

The future

Question 20

What is a worldview?

Answer 20

A set of assumptions we have developed

Question 21

Who said that a worldview is a set of pre-conceived ideas that we hold about the basic makeup of our world or universe?

Answer 21

James Sire (1997)

Question 22

What is a godless worldview?

Answer 22

assumes that what we view in the visible physical universe contains all there is to know.

Question 23

What is a “God” worldview?

Answer 23

‘formed around the belief that there is an order of existence’, that while including what we observe in science, extends beyond the scientifically visible universe, and there is spiritual or mystical truth from this realm that is just as important and reliable as that derived from the visible or natural realm.

Question 24

What are the two paths looking at Life Calling?

Answer 24

God-permeated exploration (we have an eternal place) and godless exploration (we exist only in the present with no discernible future beyond this life)

Question 25

Hebrews 11:1-3

Answer 25

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. is is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Question 26

3 dimensions of faith.

Answer 26

1. Faith correlates to what we hope for
2. Faith correlates to our certainty about what has already happened
3. Faith is active in what we are trying to understand right now

Question 27

2 Corinthians 5:7

Answer 27

We live by faith, not by sight.

Question 28

What are God’s invisible qualities?

Answer 28

Eternal power and divine nature