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Lesson OneWhat Are the Major Worldviews?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoQuestions a Worldview Seeks To Answer - Part I3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeQuestions a Worldview Seeks To Answer - Part II3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourDistinctives of a Biblical Worldview3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveWhich Worldview Will You Choose?3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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List a television show, a book, a friend’s opinion, or some other source that illustrates each of the six worldviews listed. Example: Deism—Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, indicated on a NASA form that he was a deist.
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Monotheism: Heartland – family that prays together to God
Naturalism: Cosmos with Carl Sagen
Deism: most of my college students live in this frame of mind, believing there is probably a God, but no need to concern themselves with him
Nihilism: some of the hippies in Jesus Revolution
Existentialism: Great Gatsby
Pantheism: I have a friend who claims to be a Christian, but also acknowledges the presence and influence of Mother Earth
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Pantheism – A former neighbor was pantheist – she said “we are all God”
Existentialism – I can’t remember the name but read a book that talked about a Hindu man trying to reach self-actualization
Naturalism – someone I know named Tracy who is very into nature and believes that’s all there is
Deism – Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were open deists
Monotheism: Islam – Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus; Judaism – our tour guide in Israel who was Jewish, knew all the claims about Jesus yet hasn’t accepted Him
nihilism – someone I know named Larry who doesn’t believe any of it -
Monotheism – Most of my very close friends believe the the God of the Christian Bible is the “One True God”.
Deism – My coworker Dave believes in God, and goes to church but that is his only connection to God. There is no acknowledgement that you can have an actual relationship with God . He knows of God but he doesn’t know God.
Naturalism – Where I live in Colorado is a New Age stronghold. Everything is determined by the natural forces of nature and its surroundings.
Nihilism – The comedy TV show Brooklyn Nine Nine I believe has a nihilist core. Mind you it is a comedy show but just by how things have changed with their cast roles to cater to the politically correct on a show to show basis, emphasises the nihilism that is represented.
Existentialism – I would say the emergence of “wokism” and transgenderism depicts existentialism to its very core.
Pantheism – Many indigenous people groups from third world nations have a strong foundation in pantheism. This gives way to much superstition. -
Monotheism- The Chosen is a show that really hones in on there only being one God and Jesus as the Messiah who dies for all our sin. Relationship, trust, obedience all being main focuses throughout the series.
Deist- Not sure what the bibles are called but I know there are versions where they take out every miracle but leave God in them.
Nihilist- There is a new telescope that has been built that now sees farther than any before, expectations were to see unformed galaxies bc the distance would be in the “past”. Upon looking they recognized more completely formed galaxies and instead of recognizing a creator of it all at once they feel their theories were wrong and science will be able to determine why.
Exetentialist- Our current cultural push is live your own life and make it up as you go, from your sex, to your sexual preference to what you want to be called or identified as, just do what makes you happy.
I know there is a new thing about being rooted to the ground and the earths energy giving you your energy, happiness and so on -
Yoga, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Darwin, news/politics, atheist groups
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Of the six worldviews listed, which two are most alike? Which two are the most dissimilar? Explain.
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Judaism and Christianity are most alike. They utilize the majority of the same holy book, believe in one God, etc etc. They drift on one though incredibly significant point of was Jesus the Son of God or only a human prophet.
Judaism and Pantheism seem most different. Judaism has a high value for tradition, order, stoic nature, family, high detail related to the body and God’s commands, etc. Pantheism detaches from the now and the physical. It puts value on the thought and imagining what we see isn’t of true reality or meaningful.
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Monotheism and Deism are the most similar in that they both believe in a god that created the universe. Monotheism and Naturalism contradict each other the most because one believes in God that created and moves the world while the other believes in science and the evolution of matter.
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I would say Judaism and Christianity are close b/c we believe in the same God and both believe that Jesus was a real man.
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Nihilism and existentialism are the most similar. It appears that at the end of the day in these two beliefs, nothing truly matters and there is no reason for life to exist.
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The most similar are Pantheism and Naturalism because they both fixate on creation rather than saying that God made creation.