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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- 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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Monotheism – The Chosen
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Monotheism-The Chosen series
Deism-George Washington was Deist
Naturalism-Robert De Niro’s portrayal of Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).
Nihilism-No Country for Old Men the film shows how there is no absolute value that gets replaced when old values die out, and that there isn’t even any objective ‘value’ to human life, either, especially considering that people are sacks of meat, merely flesh and blood
Existentialism-Quote by Charles Bukowski “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
Pantheism-Elon Musk is a Pantheist -
This is rather difficult to specify in my Asian context, because Asian people don’t often verbalize their worldviews according to the Western paradigms listed in this lecture. Granted that there are many professing Buddhists and Hindus among the Chinese and Indians here so that one may assume that they may hold a pantheistic worldview, they practically live by an eclectic worldview set (as this lecture also says about the man on the street). I cannot say who is a living model of which worldview.
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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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It seems like Naturalism and Pantheism exalt creation over the Creator
Theism- specifically Christianity and Existentialism are very opposed. -
Christian and Judaism are most alike.
Deism and monotheism are most dissimilar .
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Nihilism and existentialism seem very similar because they both question truth and meaning. Pantheism and existentialism seem to be most at odds because pantheism says that everything is God and existentialism says that nothing matters.
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Nihilism and existentialism are the most similar, they both essentially claim that there is little meaning to life and little that can be trusted. Monotheism and existentialism are the most dissimilar, as monotheism points to a creator God, while existentialism finds no meaning in life.
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Monotheism and Deism are the most similar. Both believe that one God exists. Monotheism believes that God is separate but involved with the universe while Deism believes that God created an orderly world to operate on its own.
Monotheism and Naturalism are the most different. Monotheism believes one God exists who is separate but involved with the universe. Naturalism believes that matter is all that exists and is best understood through science.