Set of assumptions to which one commits to serve as a
List the various definitions and descriptions of worldview
framework for understanding reality and shaping ones
found in the textbook and lecture.
behavior
According to Chapter 1 in the textbook and Lecture 1,
All of them
which worldview families use both faith and reason?
1. Private Worldview: Personal view of the world, shaped
What is the ditterence between private and shared world- by their life story
views? 2. Shared Worldview: Foundational assumptions made as
a community that are commonly shared
1. Open System: Influenced by spiritual world
When discussing worldviews, what is the ditterence be-
2. Closed System: Cannot be influenced by external forces
tween an open system and a closed system?
because nothing external exists
1. God's attributes are passed to humans (creativity, love,
logic and reason, etc)
The concept that humanity is created in the image of God
2. Humanity is to exercise dominion over what God creat-
may refer to a number of things. List four: two covered in
ed
the textbook and two covered in the lecture.
3. God breathed the breath of life into us
4. God gives us worth
1. Its place at the end of the narrative
2. The amount of narrative space that the creation of hu-
List three reasons for seeing humanity as the pinnacle of manity takes within the narrative
God's creation. 3. The interruption in the pattern of wording established
when discussing the first five days of creation in Genesis
1
1. Righteous
2. Majesty
List at least five characteristics of God emphasized in
3. Gracious
Psalm 145.
4. Merciful
5. Good
1/5
, 1. To keep and work the Garden
How would you describe the nature of work God gave to
2. Kingly gardener and watchman
Adam in the Garden of Eden?
3. Expand the Garden
1. "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your ottspring and her ottspring;
What is the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 known as and what he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
does it mean? 2. Struggle between man and sin
3. Both humans and demons will attect each other but
neither is capable of destroying the other completely
1. No one is righteous
2. No one does good
3. Everyone is deceptive, curses, and is bitter
4. Murderous
Although created in the image of God, after the Fall hu- 5. Path of ruin and misery; no peace
manity became sinful by nature. How extensively does this 6. No fear of God
"original sin" or "depravity" attect us according to Romans 7. Every person is under the law and is held accountable
3:10-23? by God
8. No one can earn justification, but God can provide it
even if the law is broken
9. FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY
OF GOD
1. The world of Genesis 3 is the world we live in. 2.
According to this topic's assigned reading "The Mystery of
Seemingly insignificant choices, unbelief, and pride are
Original Sin: We Don't Know Why God Permitted the Fall,
key aspects of the Genesis account, and of our ongoing
But We Know All Too Well the Evil and Sin That Still Plague
struggle.
Us," by Marguerite Shuster, what is the problem with the
3. We are corrupt, and creation sutters a curse on account
world?
of Adam and Eve's lapse—and our own.
In the lecture, Jesus is described as fully God and fully There is one God who has revealed himself in the three
man, now briefly describe the Trinity and Jesus' position persons of the triune Godhead
in the Trinity. Jesus was God the Son, second person on the trinity.
What does the incarnation refer to? 2/5