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