Chapter 1,2,3
A comprehensive framework, or perspective, that answers life's biggest questions about reality, knowledge, ethics, and meaning, influencing an individual's thoughts, actions, and overall way of life.
What is a worldview?
The foundation for our knowledge and wisdom.
What is the Bible?
The free and unmerited favor of God.
What is grace?
This distorts creation.
What is sin?
To buy back
What is to redeem?
A big story about the world to help people make sense out of life.
What is a metanarrative?
The soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
What is wisdom?
God's curses on the physical aspects of creation are both _____ and ______.
Just and fair
What does CFR stand for?
Creation, Fall and Redemption
God redeeming creation back to its original state of wholeness.
What is restoration?
The capacity of orderly thinking.
What is reason?
Objects produced by a people group to accomplish various tasks.
What are artifacts?
Divine favor continuously shown to all people, even to those who are God's enemies.
What is common grace?
Sin needs this to survive.
What is creation?
We live in this reality, between the ______ and ____ ______.
What is already and not yet?
Assuming what one is trying to prove.
What is circular reasoning?
God's words to the natural order directing it to behave as He chooses.
What are laws of nature?
The entire inner being of each human that has been tainted by the corruption brought about by sin.
What is total depravity?
God's original design for the various entities within His creation.
What is structure?
The parable mentioned in the chapter illustrating the word being planted in the hearts of men, some of the seeds falling by the side, some being strangled out by thorns and some of it bearing good fruit.
What is the Parable of the Sower?
This allows Christians to hold onto their worldview while still benefitting from secular privilege.
What does it mean to have a two story view of reality?
God's words to the human race guiding us in how we are to live in the world.
What are creational norms?
What are the three categories that was impacted by the fall?
Family, work and personal life
The bending that an entity in creation experiences due to sin, as well as the bending back of the entity back towards its structure.
What is direction?
The parable mentioned in the chapter that has to do with believers and unbelievers living together until judgement when we will be separated.
What is the Parable of the tares?