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1
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What is the central purpose of knowledge?

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The development of the skill of rightly interpreting the world.

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What is necessary for interpretation?

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When receiving outside data, we adapt that data into internal meaning, using criteria.

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What are the three things that authority does?

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  1. The authority interprets
  2. Authority confirms everything else
  3. Authority IS our criteria
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What are the components of a worldview?

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  1. a set of basic beliefs, assumptions, and values
  2. which arise from a big story about the world and
  3. produces individual and group action-human culture
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What are the questions about Creation, The Fall, and Redemption paradigm

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  1. How should it be? (Creation)
  2. How it went wrong? (The Fall)
  3. How we correct it? (Redemption)
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How do we interpret the world rightly?

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Interpreting the world as God has already interpreted it.

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What is the difference between a worldview and apologetics?

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Worldview: How I interpret the world
Apologetics: The method I use to defend the faith

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What uses natural phenomena (cosmological, design, and moral argument) to establish the existence of a god and employs Christian evidences for the reliability of the Scriptures?

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Classical Apologetics

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What uses history (along with archeology); argues for the historical reality of key aspects of the life of Jesus and instead of appealing to a general reliability of the New Testament as a whole?

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Evidential Apologetics

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Belief in the Christian God need not require evidence to “prove” the truth of Christianity and Christianity need only to be shown to be rational.

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Rationalist Apologetics

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What shows the logical end to the unbeliever’s assumptions and shows the logical end of the believer’s assumptions?

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Presuppositional Apologetics

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What problems does classical apologetics say about the unbeliever?

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The unbeliever does not know there is a God and does not know the true God.

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What problem does evidential apologetics say about the unbeliever?

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The unbeliever does not have enough proof.

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What problem does rationalist apologetics say about the unbeliever?

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The unbeliever requires better rational frameworks.

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What problem does presuppositional apologetics say about the unbeliever?

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The unbeliever knows God, but suppresses the truth with his own wickedness.

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What is secularism?

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the belief that religion should play no role in government, education, or other public parts of society.

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What are the tenets of MTD?

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  1. A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth
  2. God want people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
  3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
  4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
  5. Good people go to heaven when they die.
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What is the basics of naturalism?

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  1. Matter is reality
  2. Supernatural is non-existent
  3. Humans are complex machines, composed of chemicals
  4. Human reason is autonomous
  5. Morality is distantly human
  6. Death is extinction
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What are basic ideas of d’Holbach?

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  1. Will, motive, reflection, and reason is tied into the fabric of nature
  2. Choice Does not Prove Freedom
20
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Tenets of Existentialism

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  1. Objective world stand over against individual
  2. The objective world appears absurd
  3. The individual must recognize the absurdity of the objective world
  4. This recognition creates authenticity: making the human authentically human
  5. The authentic person just revolt against the absurd objective and create value.
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Tenants of Atheistic Existentialism

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  1. Accepts the tenants of naturalism but…
  2. Views the external world as naturalists (objective)
  3. Existentialism is designed to transcend nihilism through subjectivity
    Sartre: existence precede essence
  4. Each person is completely free as regards his nature and destiny.
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Tenants of Theistic Existentialism

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  1. The personal is of primary value
  2. Recognizes the absurdity of the universe
  3. Belief in God cannot be obtained by reason alone (resignation)
  4. Belief in God requires a “leap to faith” (Kierkegaard)
  5. History is questionable (perception: myth/model)
  6. The fall isa model not an event
  7. Bible is useful only in the subjective, personal experience (Barth)

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