Class Definitions 1
A branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity.
What is the definition of apologetics?
Interactive relationship
What is the definition of knowledge?
The meaning of 3-4-5 in Ravi's 3-4-5 Method.
What are (three) tests, (four) questions, and (five) disciplines?
Meaning, Value, and Purpose
What is MVP?
The number premises (excluding conclusion) in the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
What is two?
The study of knowledge.
What is the definition of epistemology?
Something you think is true, to the extent that you act upon it. ("in degrees" it can grow or shrink)
What is the definition of belief?
The two limitations to apologetics.
What are spiritual and rational limitations?
The idea that man has two substances (physical and nonphysical).
What is substance dualism?
Premise one of the design argument.
What is all designs imply a designer?
What is knowledge by description?
The modern definition states this is the choice to believe something in the absence of evidence or knowledge. (This is an incorrect definition)
What is (a false definition of) faith?
Intellectual reasons, personal reasons, and social reasons.
What are the three reasons why people believe and disbelieve things?
The two things that Plato believed lead men to believe in God.
What are the existence of the soul, and the order of the motion of the stars?
The name of the three main arguments learned about in this class.
What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the Design Argument, and Anselm's Ontological Argument?
That which corresponds to reality.
What is the definition of truth?
Something you really know (familiar, interactive relationship).
What is knowledge by acquaintance?
The essential properties of particular type of thing.
What is the definition of nature?
The two types of sin
What are sins of commission and sins of omission?
This argument tells us that if the universe encompasses time, space, and matter: the cause must timeless, spaceless, and immaterial.
What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
Love and unity within believers.
What is the greatest apologetic?
Ravi's five disciplines
What are theology, metaphysics, epistemology, morality, and anthropology?
"God can do anything" or "All suffering is deserved"
What are inadequate responses to evil?
Moral (brought about by free moral agents) and Natural (brought about by free processes)
What are the two kinds of evil?
God cannot exist only in the mind, because a greater being could still be conceived.
What is Anselm's Ontological Argument premise four?