TP - Lesson 9, The State Quiz Flashcards
What is the primary question one is to answer when determining the laws of the state?
Whose law is it?
What is the example given of a “sphere of sovereignty”?
Churches on God’s soil, not states
According to a Christian worldview, where is supreme authority found?
God
According to a Christian worldview, where is civil authority found?
civil magistrate
According to a Christian worldview, to whom did God delegate authority to FIRST?
Jesus
According to a Christian worldview, to whom did God delegate authority to next?
civil magistrate
What does Jesus teach as an example to us in how to follow authority?
submission to the Father
What is the delegation of authority to the people?
servanthood
What is the adherence to authority by the people?
submission
According to a Christian worldview, the primary purpose of the state is to do what?
punish evil, condone good
According to a Christian worldview, what are the laws to the state to be based upon?
ethics
According to a secular humanist worldview, where is supreme authority found?
state (human laws)
What is the trap that adherents to a secular humanist worldview put themselves in when promoting laws based upon “universal” or “higher” ethics?
They open the debate that there is a higher power (than humans)
Who state that “God is dead”?
Nietzsche
This same individual stated that humans either have a drive for ____________ or ____________.
power
pleasure
This same individual further stated that ____________ is all that is left for humans as they pursue ____________ without ____________.
Naturalism
pleasure
consequence
Who stated that once you get rid of objective truth, one can live however they want?
Ravi Zacharias
This same individual stated that once society killed God, it simultaneously kills ____________, and ultimately was killing ____________.
ethics
man
The warning given for the future was one of a global state, where the state itself replaces ____________ and the ____________ as the experts of what is best for man.
God
family
How does Christ teach us to have a righteous rebellion to secular government?
love others through service
How does Christ teach us to instill a Christian worldview into a secular world?
Using our talents and gifts in God-called roles to meet the needs of the ….?????