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| -it does not depend upon any time, place, or conditions. |
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| -it exists independently of our minds; we do not create it. |
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| -it is the agreement of the mind with reality (coherence) |
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| -to deny its existence is to affirm it (we are bound by it) |
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| -it is the firm standard by which truth claims are measured |
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Postmoderns view all explanations of reality as constructions that are useful and objectively true. |
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The idea that belief in God is a projection of repressed or sublimated needs or desires is consistent with the teachings of Christianity. |
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A 'meme' can be described as an idea that is contagious in the way that a virus is contagious |
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Belief in something doesn't make it true; only truth makes a belief true. |
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A worldview is not what you see with; your worldview is what you actually see |
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According to Romans 1 one can conclude that there is a general awareness of God out there |
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When Jesus says in John 8, 'The truth will set you free" he means the truth in general |
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A christian view of reality does not build a wall between the sacred and the secular |
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Secular means of or belonging to the things of a religious nature. |
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In the Scriptures knowledge is merely cognitive assent to the truth |
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A worldview should be relative to the social norms of the surrounding culture. |
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When it comes to helping others learn the truth of the Gospel our prayer should be, "Make blind eyes see". |
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"To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is
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B. false
C. either true or false |
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| "If I believe of something that it is a duck, that is true of it, if and only if, it is a |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four common elements in the structure of belief systems?
A.A background theory about the world
B. A basic dependence upon the reality which my mind constructs
C. A basic diagnosis of the nature of human beings
D. a diagnosis of what is wrong with us
E. An answer for putting it right |
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| a basic dependency upon the reality which my mind constructs |
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| a total explanatory system |
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What as Immanuel Kant says "speaks" from reality
A. The ontological idea of 'beingness'
B. the starry heavens above
C. the aesthetic nature of the universe
D. The moral law within
E. A and C
F. B and D
G. A and D |
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The starry heavens above
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the moral law within |
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Which of the following are descriptive of what the Bible says about the human condition?
a. There's a general awareness of God out there
B.humans suppress the truth that they know about God
C. Humans replace the truth
D. Both B and C
E. All of the above |
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The Hebrew word for 'truth' can also be translated as ______
a. certainty
b. righteousness
c. dependability
d. faithfulness |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three bread meanings for truth found in the New Testament?
a. dependability, truthfulness, uprightness of character, of men.
b. truth in the absolute sense of that which is real and complete as opposed to what is false or wanting
c. the intellectual; discernment of facts that may be ascertained to be true or false |
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The teaching that the things we can see on earth are lesser forms or shadows of pute ideals which exist in a highter realm come from which philosophic school of thought?
a. socratic
b. platonic
c. aristotelian |
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A world view should be logically consistent. This means that
A. a true worldview will not contradict itself
b. a true worldview will fit the facts
c. a true worldview will be livable
d. none of the above |
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