Worldviews & Reality
This worldview claims there is no God and that only the physical world exists.
What is Naturalism?
Genesis 1 is written in this literary style.
What is poetry?
This word best summarizes the condition of our world today.
What is broken?
According to C.S. Lewis' "trilemma", Jesus is either ____, _______, or ____.
Who is liar, lunatic, or Lord?
Salvation is described as this kind of gift.
What is a free (and/or relational) gift?
According to this worldview, thoughts and emotions are ultimately chemical reactions in the brain.
What is Naturalism?
These two themes dominate the creation account. (Hint: intentional structure and this aesthetic quality)
What are design and beauty?
This term describes elevating something created to the place only God should occupy.
What is idolatry?
Christianity is rooted not in myth but in these kinds of real-world occurrences.
What are historical events?
Salvation requires this kind of personal response.
What is a personal decision?
In Luke 12, God calls this man that stored up treasure for himself a fool for this reason.
What is that his soul was required of him?
Humans are described as this in relation to the rest of creation.
What is unique (or made in God’s image)?
According to Chapter 4 and Romans 1, this is the root issue beneath human sin.
What is suppressing (or rejecting) the truth about God?
More than 300 of these Old Testament predictions were fulfilled by Jesus.
What are prophecies?
These three actions describe biblical repentance.
What are confession, turning away (U-turn), and towards God?
This reason explains why God does not simply overwhelm people with proof of His existence.
What is that love requires relationship and surrender, not coercion?
This is described as the pinnacle of God's creation.
What is man (or humanity)?
According to 1 John 1:8–10, this happens when we claim we have no sin.
What is we deceive ourselves (or make God a liar)?
These people discovered the empty tomb first, which strengthens the credibility of the account.
Who are women?
In Matthew 7, Jesus says this to those who claimed to know Him but did not truly follow Him.
What is “I never knew you”?
This is what Naturalism says all reality is ultimately made of.
What is matter (or physical substance)?
This was the deeper significance of eating from the forbidden tree.
What is rejecting God’s authority (or relational rebellion)?
Romans 7 describes this internal conflict of wanting to do good but failing to do it.
What is the struggle with sin (or internal captivity to sin)?
This resurrection theory claims the disciples stole Jesus’ body.
What is the Conspiracy Theory?
(Also accept: What is the stolen body theory?)
This illustration explains that salvation depends on the object of faith, not the strength of faith.
What is the frozen lake illustration?