Study Guide #1

Question 1

What are the 3 components of this course?

Answer 1

1) “Head” component where we discuss the rationality of our beliefs and their basis in Scripture and Logic
2) “Heart” component where we look at meaning and personal experience
3) “Hand” component where we discuss the practical implications of our beliefs as they are lived out.

Question 2

What 2 processes does Keller recommend to his reader?

Answer 2

1) Keller urges skeptics to wrestle with the unexamined “blind faith” on which skepticism is based, and to see how hard it is to justify those beliefs
2) Keller urges believers to wrestle with their personal and cultures objections to the faith

Question 3

What is a worldview?

Answer 3

A worldview is a fundamental assumption on how the world works

Question 4

Doubts can prevent…

Answer 4

Answered prayer and faith

Question 5

Doubts can ___ your faith and the faith of ___.

Answer 5

Destroy

Others

Question 6

Doubts can make your faith…

Answer 6

Stronger

Question 7

Types of doubts

Answer 7

1) rational reasons (head)

2) existential reasons (heart)

Question 8

Doubt enables you to ___ more effectively to others

Answer 8

Witness

Question 9

Doubts are necessary because they lead to ___

Answer 9

Change

Question 10

Doubts are displayed by _____

Doubts should also be __

Answer 10

Evidence

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