Post by RayW on Jun 8, 2013 6:28:18 GMT -8
Please post your answers to the following questions here:
1. A worldview was defined as the sum total of one’s answers to life’s most important questions. Does everyone have a worldview? Explain.
2. If a person’s worldview affects so many different areas in life, how important is it that one’s worldview be both well thought out and consistent?
3. Give an example of an inconsistent worldview.
4. Theism is the belief that God is transcendent above creation, yet He interacts with creation. Why is it necessary, according to Theists that God exist outside of time? What is the inconsistency with all worldviews in which God only exists in time?
5. Deism is the belief that God simply created all things and then left them to their own demise. Job recognizes God’s apparent lack of activity in Job 21:7–26 and 24:1–25. Job’s basic thesis is that from the looks of things, there is no ultimate judge intervening in the affairs of men. The wicked prosper, and the righteous and poor are taken advantage of. Job, it seems, comes dangerously
close to deism at times, but then his conclusion is that God knows the ways of the wicked (Job 24:23). The theme of the apparent apathy of God toward the wicked is continually seen throughout Scripture. The defense that is always given is that while the wicked may seem to prosper in this life in spite of their
wickedness, they will eventually die, face judgment, and then be forgotten. (Read Jer. 12:1–4; Ps. 37:1–2; 35–36; 92:7; Ecc. 7:15).
In what ways have you taken a deistic worldview, thinking that God is not really involved? Explain.
6. Examine Naturalism. Further discuss the deficiencies that it has in answering the worldview questions.
7. Examine Pluralism. Further discuss the deficiencies that it has in answering the worldview questions.
8. Why do you think Pluralism is so prevalent in the twenty-first century as a worldview? Why do you think that people ignore the inconsistencies?
9. How was your thinking most challenged by the lesson? Explain.
1. A worldview was defined as the sum total of one’s answers to life’s most important questions. Does everyone have a worldview? Explain.
2. If a person’s worldview affects so many different areas in life, how important is it that one’s worldview be both well thought out and consistent?
3. Give an example of an inconsistent worldview.
4. Theism is the belief that God is transcendent above creation, yet He interacts with creation. Why is it necessary, according to Theists that God exist outside of time? What is the inconsistency with all worldviews in which God only exists in time?
5. Deism is the belief that God simply created all things and then left them to their own demise. Job recognizes God’s apparent lack of activity in Job 21:7–26 and 24:1–25. Job’s basic thesis is that from the looks of things, there is no ultimate judge intervening in the affairs of men. The wicked prosper, and the righteous and poor are taken advantage of. Job, it seems, comes dangerously
close to deism at times, but then his conclusion is that God knows the ways of the wicked (Job 24:23). The theme of the apparent apathy of God toward the wicked is continually seen throughout Scripture. The defense that is always given is that while the wicked may seem to prosper in this life in spite of their
wickedness, they will eventually die, face judgment, and then be forgotten. (Read Jer. 12:1–4; Ps. 37:1–2; 35–36; 92:7; Ecc. 7:15).
In what ways have you taken a deistic worldview, thinking that God is not really involved? Explain.
6. Examine Naturalism. Further discuss the deficiencies that it has in answering the worldview questions.
7. Examine Pluralism. Further discuss the deficiencies that it has in answering the worldview questions.
8. Why do you think Pluralism is so prevalent in the twenty-first century as a worldview? Why do you think that people ignore the inconsistencies?
9. How was your thinking most challenged by the lesson? Explain.