Chapter 6

Question 1

Worldview

Answer 1

A web of beliefs that allows certain information to flow through as truth and other statements to be rejected as false

Question 2

Theology

Answer 2

Is there a god or any supernatural being

Question 3

Metaphysics

Answer 3

What is real? Is reality real?

Question 4

Cosmology

Answer 4

What are the origins of man and the universe

Question 5

Teleology

Answer 5

What is my meaning and purpose in life

Question 6

Axiology

Answer 6

How do I know what is right and wrong

Question 7

Eschatology

Answer 7

What is my destiny after death

Question 8

Epistemology

Answer 8

What is truth? How can I know it

Question 9

Anthropology

Answer 9

What is the state of man? Is he good or sinful

Question 10

What is the critique of atheism?

Answer 10

1. They do not give adequate reasons for believing God does not exist
2. They do not prove that our concept of God includes factual contradictions
3. They do not have reasonable answers when asked questions concerning ethics and purpose in life

Question 11

Critique of agnocitism

Answer 11

1. Does not adequately answer the question of ethical foundations
2. They claim that you can not know anything about God, yet they claim that he is unknowable

Question 12

In pantheism is there a distinction between God and the universe?

Answer 12

Nope. They are one being

Question 13

What problem do pantheistic face by equating God and the universe?

Answer 13

The universe is finite and changes or runs down. For God and the universe to be the same, the universe would have to be eternal with no beginning point and thus is denied by science.

Question 14

Important American desists?

Answer 14

Franklin and Jefferson

Question 15

Critiques of deism

Answer 15

1. If the God of deism is no able to act in his own creation, then he is not infinite
2. The idea that the laws of science was trustworthy to explain ongoing operation of the universe without God has diminished.

Question 16

What two religion groups practice polytheism today?

Answer 16

Mormonism and Hinduism

Question 17

What is the biggest problem polytheist have to deal with?

Answer 17

1. The origin of the world

2. Which God to listen to if they are all supreme and are all giving commands

Question 18

What is a kind of finite Godism?

Answer 18

Open theism

Question 19

Critiques of open theism

Answer 19

1. For God to be limited in Any of his attributes would mean that he is finite sync thus is subject to change and would need a creator
2. If God changes or has the capability to change then ethics can not be based on his character and there is no absolute truth

Question 20

Main monotheistic religions

Answer 20

Christianity
Judaism
Islam

Question 21

Naturalism

Answer 21

There is nothing beyond the natural

Question 22

Atheism

Answer 22

There is no God

Question 23

Agnosticism

Answer 23

You can’t know if there is a God

Question 24

Supernaturalism

Answer 24

There is something beyond the natural

Question 25

Pantheism

Answer 25

God and the world are identical

Question 26

Polytheism

Answer 26

There are many finite gods

Question 27

Finite godism

Answer 27

God exists but is limited in one or more aspects of nature

Question 28

Monotheism

Answer 28

There is one infinite and perfect being

Question 29

Desim

Answer 29

God exists but he does not act in the universe

Question 30

Richard Dawkins

Answer 30

The only scientist.

The most rage against God

Question 31

Christopher hitchens

Answer 31

Says mother Theresa is dangerous, sinister, fanatical
Uses menken the atheist who advocated social Darwinism and eugenics
Sees MLK and Bonhoeffer as humanists

Question 32

Daniel dennett

Answer 32

Sees the stories of the OT as interesting, but not to be seen as a serious rule of life

Question 33

Sam harris

Answer 33

Attacks the New Testament and Jesus

Question 34

All four men:

Answer 34

Point out the evils perpetrated by Christians

Ignore or reduce the contributions of Christians to society

Question 35

Hinduism

Answer 35

I billion
Reincarnation
Caste system

Question 36

Buddhism

Answer 36

Reincarnation
Denial of expectation
Final annihilation

Question 37

Judaism

Answer 37

Adherence to the law

Leads to possible inclusion into the afterlife

Question 38

Islam

Answer 38

1 billion

Quran

Question 39

Who founded Christian Science?

Answer 39

Mary baker eddy
Wrote Science and Life
Identified her God with creation
This is a gnostic idea of docetism

Question 40

Who founded the unity school of Christianity?

Answer 40

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore

Question 41

Where did unity get its ideas

Answer 41

Christianity
System of the mental healer phineas quimby
Added to reincarnation
Salvation is unnecessary
No sin sickness or death

Question 42

Paganism/Wicca

Answer 42

Living things are of equal value
No absolute good or absolute evil
They disavow Satan