The Truth Project Lesson 6

Question 1

History as _______ and _________

Answer 1

Reason and feeling

Question 2

What does history do?

Answer 2

Provides reminders of what God has done through man

Question 3

What God has done through man is a ______ __________ view of history

Answer 3

Meta narrative

Question 4

What did the Pilgrim’s Providential View of History do?

Answer 4

Laid the stepping stones for future generations

Question 5

Our problem is that we ________ what we should forget and _______ what we should remember

Answer 5

Remember, forget

Question 6

“Historical _________”

Answer 6

Revisionism

Question 7

What is the concept of historical revisionism?

Answer 7

If you rewrite the past, you can make people believe whatever you want in the present

Question 8

What does Satan ask Eve in the garden?

Answer 8

“Did God really say…”

Question 9

Give an example of historical revisionism besides Satan in the garden.

Answer 9

The guards reporting about how Jesus’ body left the tomb

Question 10

What is a post-modernist belief about the past?

Answer 10

Everyone has their own past, thus there is no one truth applicable to all

Question 11

What is the goal in 2 Corinthians 10:5?

Answer 11

To take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ

Question 12

What are two examples of the battle over history?

Answer 12

Darwin’s “Origin of Species” in 1859 and the Mayflower Compact (documents cannot be understood without recognizing their faith in God)

Question 13

List the events AND the number of years until publication after the events occurred.

Answer 13

New Testament- 25, Homer’s Iliad- 500, Caesar’s Gallic Wars- 1000, Pliny’s History- 750, Thueydides’ History- 1300, Herodutus’ History- 1300

Question 14

God’s mandate to _________

Answer 14

Remember

Question 15

What is the purpose of the memorial stones in Joshua 4:1-7?

Answer 15

So that the people would remember what they have gone through

Question 16

When people remember what they have gone through, it does what?

Answer 16

Keeps them focused on the present

Question 17

What does Judges 2:10 say?

Answer 17

All it took was one generation to forget the provisions of God

Question 18

The entire culture lived for _____ __________ reasons

Answer 18

Self-centered

Question 19

A ________ caught up in their own little _____ will never be willing to lay themselves down as _________ ________ for others

Answer 19

People, story, stepping stones

Question 20

What is Natural Myopia?

Answer 20

Nearsightedness

Question 21

What is an example of Natural Myopia?

Answer 21

How you say the number 911 and why

Question 22

What three ideas did Dalrymple suggest?

Answer 22

We are receivers of tradition, life does not begin or end with you, and without history there really isn’t any impact or meaning in the present

Question 23

What two things did Sproul say without history there is no sense of?

Answer 23

Identity or wisdom in how and why we move forward

Question 24

What you _______ in the ________ is determined by your _____

Answer 24

Believe, present, past

Question 25

What you believe in the present comes from what four things?

Answer 25

Your education, through experiences, formal training, and what you observe

Question 26

History: Whose _______?

Answer 26

Story