unit 3.3

Question 1

Significant Life Experiences

Answer 1

Important, notable, special, major. (Graduation, moving out of home, the start of year 12, accident, loss of loved one, birth)

Question 2

Interpret

Answer 2

Make sense of, understand why these life experiences happen

Question 3

Impact

Answer 3

Abandon their beliefs (I cannot believe God did this”), question (“Really…?”), re-examine their beliefs, re-interpret and come to a new understanding of their beliefs. Beliefs can be strengthened or weakened as a result.

Question 4

Cultural Adherence

Answer 4

Childlike faith, blind acceptance

Question 5

Personal faith internalised understanding Adherence

Answer 5

A real, personal understanding of belief in…

Question 6

SLE affects their beliefs can be either positive or negative

Answer 6

Energy 
Understanding
Example 
Deal with 
Make sense of 
Interpret

Question 7

Beliefs affect Significant Life Experiences

Answer 7

Beliefs provided a path for actions

Beliefs affect response to …

Question 8

Introducing Desmond Doss in a specific question

Answer 8

Desmond Doss, in 1945 (during WWII), a Seventh-day Adventist Christian who was a medic in the US army in the battle of Okinawa.

Question 9

The belief of Life is Sacred before:

Answer 9

Picture of the 10 Commandments showing Cain killing Abel, Doss vowed never to take a life.

interview with Doss, and Audrey Milner, Doss’ sister

Question 10

The belief of Life is Sacred during:

Answer 10

During the war, Doss continued to act on his belief and not only saved his fellow US soldiers but Japanese soldiers too.

Question 11

The belief of Life is Sacred after:

Answer 11

Doss devoted his life to working with young children and teaching them about God and speaking at church events.

Question 12

The belief of the seventh-day Sabbath before:

Answer 12

Doss would regularly attend church with his family as it was a tradition he would do with his family. Doss had a cultural understanding of the Sabbath, a childlike belief that was practised in a traditional way.

Question 13

The belief of the seventh-day Sabbath during:

Answer 13

During the war, Doss comes to a new understanding of what he can do on the sabbath, that he can still do things on Sabbath, like save lives and work as a medic if it is required of him

Question 14

The belief of the seventh-day Sabbath after:

Answer 14

Doss had a renewed deep belief of sabbath, even though he didn’t need to work as a medic, he had a new understanding of sabbath day. Desmond Doss continues to use the Sabbath as a day of praise to his Ultimate Reality by attending church.