term 1 Flashcards
What is a worldview?
A worldview is something that every one of us have and are continually developing as we live life, the assumptions we make about what is true or real.
What are the 6 Questions about Worldview?
- What is Prime reality?
- What are our origins and therefore what are people?
- What is my purpose in life?
- What is the origin of right and wrong?
- What is wrong with the world?
- What happens after death?
How Would Christianity Answer the 6 Questions?
- What is Prime reality?
God is the ultimate reality-the absolute foundation of everything that is, and the end toward which all points - What are our origins and therefore what are people?
God created people to be in his likeness, to rule the earth and take care of it. People are meant to be an image of God. - What is my purpose in life?
The purpose of life is to know God and hear his voice so I can live a life of servanthood and obedience to him and teach others about Him so they may know him too. - What is the origin of right and wrong?
God is everything that is Right. Everything that he created is Right, and good. Wrong is sin, and everything that is apart from God. - What is wrong with the world?
Sin is what is wrong with the world. After Eve ate the forbidden fruit, sin entered the world and caused disease, death, and everything that is wrong and bad. - What happens after death?
People that believe that Jesus came, died on the cross, and was resurrected in order to save the people from sin are accepted into heaven to live an eternity by the throne of God in a perfect Earth.
How Would Materialism Answer the 6 Questions?
- What is Prime reality?
All facts (including facts about the human mind and will and the course of human history) are causally dependent upon physical processes, or even reducible to them and nothing more. There is nothing beyond the physical. - What are our origins and therefore what are people?
People evolved unguided through a complex evolutionary process and natural selection. People are simply animals that have evolved a consciousness and can colonise everything to rule it and use it to their advantage. - What is my purpose in life?
Purposes may vary, but are focussed on developing yourself or only relying on yourself to achieve something because there is nothing out there to help you but yourself and other people. - What is the origin of right and wrong?
People have an innate sense of right and wrong that may have come from instincts that were kept during evolution. Rules are often what is right, and wrong is anything that breaks them. - What is wrong with the world?
People are corrupt, and some do a lot more bad. A lack of peace is caused by corrupt leaders, and selfishness of some people can also cause this to worsen. - What happens after death?
You simply die. There is nothing to meet or see after death, because there is nothing beyond the physical that exists.
How would Pantheism answer the 6 questions?
- What is Prime reality?
Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical to divinity and a supreme being or entity, pointing to the universe as being an immanent creator deity who is still expanding and creating, which has existed since the beginning of time. - What are our origins and therefore what are people?
People are an immanation of God, and that this deity and supernatural being is everything in this world. This being created people and people are this being. - What is my purpose in life?
Purpose in life is to work towards more human freedom in partnership with the being. Humanity and God together work towards the undeterminable future and work towards human freedom. - What is the origin of right and wrong?
The universe, while containing both values, possesses neither right or wrong. The pantheistic being lies beyond good and evil. Finite creatures do not, and therefore are subject to being either good or evil, right or wrong. - What is wrong with the world?
There is no such thing as wrong, because everything is God. It is the imperfect faculties that mortal people posses that create the illusion of wrongness and sin. - What happens after death?
Pantheist believe that they do not really die: they return to nature. Our elements dissolve and are re-absorbed in new life forms, and we become part of the natural cycle. There is nothing that we feel after death, but we live on in the form of nature.
Why do Christians not like abortion?
They believe that it is taking control from God and deciding the path and existence of life for themselves. This is not supported by christians because the main purpose of life for them is to follow God in obedience and allow for him to exact his plan however he needs to do it. Getting an abortion would be not following his plan, because his plan was for the pregnancy to result in a child, or otherwise.
Why do Materialists believe in Unguided Evolution?
They do not believe in a Creator guiding the creation of life with detail. They believe that there is nothing beyond the physical and material, and therefore unguided evolution must have happened in order for evolution to occur at all. There is nothing out there to guide the evolution, so therefore it was unguided.
How did God create the world?
God said “let there be light,” and there was. And it was good. God spent 6 days, speaking his creation into existence. He created man, Adam, and a companion for him, Eve, a woman. At the end of the 6th day, on the 7th day, he rested.
How did evil enter the world?
God said that Adam and Eve can eat from whichever tree they wish, except for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The pair agreed. Then, Satan disguised as a Serpent entered the Garden of Eden. He tricked Eve into eating the fruit of knowledge, saying that she will become as smart as God and know all the good and evil. She ate the apple, and gave it to Adam to try too. This caused sin to enter the world, because they disobeyed God’s rules.
What is another example of the legend of Noahs Flood?
One example of a flood myth is the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars believe that this account was copied from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis,[a] which dates to the 18th century BCE.[3][b] In the Gilgamesh flood myth, the highest god, Enlil, decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy. The god Ea, who had created humans out of clay and divine blood, secretly warns the hero Utnapishtim of the impending flood and gives him detailed instructions for building a boat so that life may survive
Stories also from Aztec cultures.
What was the purpose of the flood?
The Flood was after the Fall, as a culmination of all evil. God grieved that he had made Man, because all of Man’s thoughts had turned to wickedness and evil. He decided that man kind would have to be restarted, and chose the most faithful man to keep alive, due to his faith. He then told him to build and ark, save his family and their wives, and keep two of every animal. God then sent waves and waves of thunder and rain onto the Earth, and wiped out all of mankind and all of the creatures save for those on the Ark. Then, once Noah had reached land, God made a promise. No matter how wicked mankind would be, he would be merciful, and never destroy or curse the ground because of man again. This also shows the theme that life is precious.
What is historical science?
Historical science draws evidence from historical records, which experiments and carbon dating can not conclude.
What is observational science?
Observational science is theoretical, experimental and applied research related to oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial sciences
Contrast inferences vs observation.
An observation uses your five senses, while an inference is a conclusion we draw based on our observations
What is an assumption?
Something that is assumed in order for a certain conclusion to be based on specific evidence
