Worldviews
This Worldview teaches that God is consciousness and we are all God.
What is New Spirituality
An overarching story of events that provides structure
What is a metanarrative?
Teaches what it means to be human
What is Psychology?
An experiment was done by whom using rotting meat to disprove spontaneous generation.
Who is Francesco Redi?
Humans are purely physical beings
What is materialism or naturalism?
If something exists, then something must have caused it to exist.
What is the CAUSAL ARGUMENT
This Worldview is atheistic, materialistic, and anti-religious.
What is Secularism?
The first step of the Biblical metanarrative
What is Creation?
Teaches the meaning of history
What is History?
Life only comes from preexisting life; it cannot generate itself
What is Biogenesis?
Humans are purely spiritual beings
What is spiritualism?
If there are moral absolutes, then there must be a moral LAWGIVER
What is the MORAL ARGUMENT?
This Worldview denies the existence of God and absolute truth.
What is Postmodernism?
The second step in the Biblical metanarrative
What is the Fall?
Teaches what is true and how we can know
What is Philosophy?
Life originally came from non-living matter more than 3.5 billion years ago.
What is Abiogenesis?
The study of the mind and the behavior it produces
What is Psychology?
If my mind is able to think and reason and create, then my CREATOR must be able to do the same thing.
What is the MIND ARGUMENT?
This Worldview believes in a personal God who makes Himself known through creation and the Bible
What is Christianity?
The third step of the Biblical metanarrative
What is Redemption?
Teaches how we should behave
What is Ethics?
Small, adaptive changes are capable of accumulating over time to produce entirely new species
What is Macroevolution?
The three key building blocks of any society
What are the family, church, and state?
If something exists that has design, then there must have been a DESIGNER.
What is the DESIGN ARGUMENT?
This Worldview teaches that the ideal state humans can achieve is called communism.
What is Marxism?
The fourth step of the Biblical metanarrative
What is Restoration?
Teaches us what makes a healthy society
What is Sociology?
Small, adaptive changes are capable of producing variations within the gene pool of species
What is Microevolution?
The belief that ethical decisions can vary depending on the situation
What is situation ethics?
Three of the four ARGUMENTS imply that there is a GOD.
What are the moral ARGUMENT, design Argument, and mind argument?