Bible study guide

1. Sports and games illustrate two truths that can help us understand our world and make it a better place. What are these two truths?

Rule governed universe + patterns emerge

1. Do the patterns we see around us every day suggest answers to some of life’s bigger questions? What are some of those questions?

Yes ex. What is the good life? Is there a God? What is right and wrong?

1. What are the two groups of people in “The Battle of Ideas”?

Captives and Captors

What is a worldview

A worldview is a set of beliefs that impact how you see the world

1. How does a worldview influence the way we live?

It influences the decisions we make, what’s right and wrong, how life should be

1. What is the key worldview principle?

Ideas have consequences 

Do Ideas have consequences? If so, in what ways?

Yes. They affect your mind then your heart

What are the two great commandments that God gave to us ?

The first greatest is to love God and the second is to love your neighbor

1. What are the two commissions God gave to us?

1. The Cultural Commission - “be fruitful and multiply…rule over the earth”

2. The Great Commission - “disciple, baptize, and teach: all nations”

1. What did Jesus do constantly when he debated people in the gospels?

Asked questions

1. What are assumptions?

Things we believe without proof

1. What assumptions did Even have in the garden?

I can trust my senses, I will be like God, I judge what is true and not

1. Why is it important for Christians to grow in knowledge of Christ?

Knowledge is supposed to increase our faith and affection for God

Theology

God

Philosophy

Wisdom

Biology

life

Psychology

mind

Ethics

morals

Sociology

Society

Law

Justice

Politics

Sovereignty

Economics

money

History

the past

1. What does it mean to be a practical atheist? 

To know things about God but it has no effect on your life

Why is it dangerous to just learn things about God and not seek to apply it to your life and is there an analogy to help understand this?

Use analogy of eating food that it should be balanced with exercise because food is meant to give energy but if not used it can cause problems

How are some ways people get a WV?

How they are raised, religious training, examining life

Coherence

Is it logically consistent?

Explanatory power

 How well does it explain reality?

Correspondence

 How does it correspond with empirically established facts?

Verification test

Can the claims of the WV be tested?

Pragmatic

 Is it livable personally/societally?

What is the analogy of the elephant and why is it important?

A couple blind men come up to an elephant and each feel a different part of the elephant but guess that the elephant is something else. People use this analogy to say that the people are different religions and they each worship the same God but see him differently the problem is the story assumes that no one can know the elephant while simultaneously claiming to know the elephant