Assignment:
Be sure you answer both Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment before submitting.
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Part 1
After reading chapter 2 in the textbook and the lecture note for this topic, write a 2-3 sentence answer to each of the six questions that form the basic components or personal commitments for your worldview. Answer the questions about your own beliefs, in your own words, not what you think the Christian worldview believes. Keep this worksheet intact and please only add your answers under each question.
1. What is ultimate reality?
2. What is the nature of the universe?
3. What is human nature?
4. What is knowledge?
5. What is your basis of ethics?
6. What is your purpose?
Part 2
Answer the following two questions with a 300 words response for each question:
1. Your answers to the questions in Part 1 form the basis of your worldview. Now that you have articulated your worldview, evaluate it according to the Practical Test, described in chapter 2 of the textbook and the lecture. Can you live your worldview out in the world as we know it? Why or why not?
2. Reflect on your current understanding of the Christian faith. In other words, what is the essence of the Christian worldview? How does one become a Christian?
(B)
Please type your answers below each question, except for the two matching questions.
. List three analogies for worldview used in chapter 1of the textbook.
. List the various definitions and descriptions of worldview found in the textbook and lecture.
. Match the following worldview terms - Atheism, Pantheism, Theism, and Deism - with the correct description below.
. Belief in a personal and relational God who created and sustains all that exists:
. Belief in a God who created all things but is not relational or involved in the world:
. Belief that "all is god" and a strong sense of spiritualism but not in a personal God:
. Belief based only on the natural or physical realm with no spiritual or supernatural:
. According to chapter 1 in the textbook and Lecture 1, which worldview families use both faith and reason?
. What kind of person does James 1:26 speak about?
. Summarize Proverbs 8:10-11.
. What is the difference between private and shared worldviews?
. Briefly describe the three worldview tests.
2. Match the following worldview elements - Ultimate Reality, Nature of the Universe, Human Nature, Knowledge, Ethics, and Purpose - with the correct question below:
1. Is there absolute truth?
2. Is there a God?
3. How do we know right from wrong?
4. Is there a spiritual part to the universe?
5. Does life have meaning?
6. Are humans' merely higher orders of mammals?
3. When discussing worldviews, what is the difference between an open system and a closed system?