Foundations Midterm 1

Faith Stands

Under hope and demonstrates our conviction and trust in the reality of what we cannot see

Faith according to Lewis

Simple belief ruled by reason

Necessary for Reasonable Faith

Some understanding, some reason to accept, readiness to act on it

What does Faith involve?

I don’t have to see or understand everything

Christianity is

A worldview

Christianity is grounded on

A historical crucifixtion that no one would have considered making up for a story

The existence of the church is grounded in

The resurrection and that Christ meets the needs that ring true for human beings

A worldview is

A total interconnected view of belief

Reality is

objective and how we interpret it is subjective

A worldview commitment is

an emotional commitment

“Prime Reality” is

That which the whole worldview stands upon

The Biblical Worldview is

God is the Foundation of all

Major Worldview Questions

Who is God, What is a human, What is our purpose, Where are we going

Everyone has

A worldview

The Law of Noncontradiction

Anything cannot what it is and isn’t in the same time and the same sense

The Test of Reason

A worldview should be consistent

The Test of Experience

Relevant to what we know to be true about ourselves and the world

The Test of Practice

Practical and tested in real life

Sin is

How we measure our failure

Touchstone Proposition is

The essence of the worldview

Preliminaries to Humans

The human need to reach out for something greater and the conception of God and the problem of what exactly people are denying

A strawman is

Taking the weakest points of an argument and focusing only on that portion

Our God is

Undeniable

Acts 17 speaks about

The God who made the world and everything in it

God did not

make us because He needed us. We are not essential

In God’s creation we are

Stewards of everything He has made

There is only

One race and God rules over all

We are

One mankind on borrowed time

The church as a people are

A spiritual nation that is chosen by God

In Him we

Live and exist

Divine Nature is not

An image or skill formed by human thought

God is proclaiming to mankind that

All people everywhere are to repent

Knowledge is possible because

“Love the Lord with all your heart” which shows us that we have to use our minds properly

Knowing requires

A mind capable of learning and that the information is real

Everything in our body is

Ordered information

Our knowledge begins with

God as the foundation of all knowledge

God gave us minds by which to

Reason, think, and know

When struggling with God’s existence, we can recall the question

If we are developed from illogical and undeveloped minds, can we use our own ideas for a foundation of principles

Universal Truth

Holds value if the majority of mankind will accept it as truth

Moral Truth

Holds value but not everyone will agree that it is a truth

If everything is subjective

Not all of our ideals and laws can be upheld

“Critical Thinking”

Allows us to evaluate and consider

Components of Critical Thinking

Imagination, Analysis, Evaluate, Development

Classical topics

Is a way of thinking

In all conversations and research

Truth is the goal

Importance of Genesis is

We are made in God’s image and are something wonderful to behold

Our characteristics

We have God’s characteristics, we have a fellowship that other creatures do not, we are understanding, and we can reason and have free will

Dignity of a human being is

We are worth respecting, we have a duty to love, we have ethics and morality, and we can show empathy

As God’s image bearers, foundations of human dignity include the reality of

Morals, Free Will, and Purpose

A worldview without God shows

That life is meaningless and without purpose

Point of Contrast

Why we have human rights, why mistreating other is wrong, and why racism is wrong

When we consider death and resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:32

Morality is important because

We have a sense of ought and there has to be a foundation for all of our logic and ethics

Biblical Worldview (In depth) is

God is creator and a moral sense is built into us

Morality

Won’t save us but immorality will condemn us

If morality is up to interpretation

Crimes against humanity can only exist if there is a standard that we are all placed on

Atheism

Everything in life is indeed permitted if God does not exist and man is in consequence forlorn

The Failure of Moral Relativism

You can be a good person without God, but there is not a foundation for why or what you do is good or not good

Goodness is

Intertwined with God and His Creation

The concept of beauty

Is abstract

Caring about beauty

Goes beyond raw materialism which cannot give it meaning

Reflection of God’s beauty in us

Is mirrored by us wanting to create beauty in our world

Goodness requires

A standard

Good is not

Measured from what is bad

In truth, we cannot

Learn anything if we are opposed to new ideas or listening to old ones

In reference to truth, Acts 17 talks about

How they searched the scriptures to see that it was true

We live in

A post-truth culture

Truth is

Rooted in reality, objective, discoverable, attainable, immutable, foundational, universal

In terms of beauty and goodness, Faith shows us

That there is a Godly standard for both

With Living in Doubt, we can

Address the questions, beware of limitations in knowledge, and pursue answers

Doubt is not just intellectual, it is

Spiritual and Personal

When we begin to doubt, we should consider

Are we thinking highly enough of God, Are we thinking too highly of worldly wisdom, Are we focusing on the resurrection, Are we focused more on self or personal failures, Are we looking at eternity, Are we looking for questions or answers?

The Resolution to everything

Is found in the Gospel

The Cardinal Virtues

Wisdom, Courage, Temperance, and Justice

In a Biblical sense, justice is

Treating others respectfully, faithfully, and honorably

If no standards exist

Justice is completely meaningless

If we are concerned about justice then

We shouldn’t gossip or lie about others

Justice

Being merciful and kind to others

Justice is the embodiment of

God

In justice we are

recognizing that we are all made in God’s image

Justice Does not

Stop in the coutroom

Justice is a principle

That humanity has carried through time

Anyone that we can show justice to

Is our neighbor

The Bible without a doubt

Goes against fornication and homosexuality

The subject of sexual sins requires

Compassion

The practices of homosexuality and immorality make sense in a Biblical Worldview because

We have a standard and a free will

The practices of homosexuality and immorality do not make sense in Darwinism because

Anything sexual is meant to be for “Survival of the fittest”

Sexuality

Has nothing to do with politics

The foundation of male/female sexual ethic is rooted in

Creation

Marriage mirrors

Christ and The Church

Marriage is

The only relationship sanctioned by God

Romans 1

Does not only call for the death of sexual immorality but of all sin/sinners

We have to distinguish

Between emotions and reality

How we feel

Does not correlate to doing what we want

There is a difference between

Internal thought and action consequences

Love has

Already been defined for us by God

Christians find

Identity in Christ

Galatians 2:20

“Christ lives in me”

Jesus gave up himself by saying

“Not my will but thine be done”

We have to

Cultivate feelings for God