Apologetics EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

Apologetics EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) Apologetics - Answer- the reasoned defense of the Christian faith Worldview - Answer- outlook or perspective on the world that is in all of reality and all of our experience of it. Concerns how you think and interact with the world on a basic level Apologetics as proof - Answer- Reasons to believe the Christian worldview is true or reasonable. Positive function: asks why should I believe in Christianity Apologetics as Defense (negative) - Answer- Counters (alleged) reasons to believe CW is false. Answers: why shouldn't I believe that Christianity is false? Apologetics as Offense - Answer- offers reasons to believe that the non-CW are false or unreasonable. Adresses: why shouldn't I believe something other than Christianity? 1 Peter 3:15 - Answer- but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect Why do Apologetics - Answer- 1. Glorify God 2. silence unbelievers 3. evangelize 4. edify the church/believers 5. protect the church 6. promote theological insight 7. dev critical thinking skills Biblical Mandate for Apolo (5) - Answer- 1)1 Peter 3:15 (cf 14-17) 2)Jude 3 3)John 20:30-31 (lead people to saving faith) what it TAKES to make a WV - Answer- Theology, Anthropology, Knowledge (presuppositions about knowledge and truth), Ethics (presuppositions about goodness and morality. is morality real or illusory?), Salvation (what if anything is wrong with people Theology - Answer- There is a God, he is perfect, personal absolute (not relative to anything else, and he is personal), Trinity (ultimate unity and plurality), Created the world (ontologically distinct from the world), Transcendent and immanent, sovereign (control authority presence), Trinity Text - Answer- Mt 3:16 Transcendent and immanent - Answer- Isa 40, 7 Sovereign - Answer- Ex 3:14 Humans: physical and spiritual - Answer- 2 Cor 5:1 Glorify God and enjoy him - Answer- Isa 43:7 Redeemed humanity - Answer- john 5:24, 2 cor 3:17 Knowledge - Answer- Scripture (mt 4, Isa 8:20) natural (ps 19), Knowledge for unregenerate - Answer- Rom 1, 8 Knowledge for regenerate - Answer- 1 Cor 2, Ps 1, John 17, Morality is real, objective, universal - Answer- ps 19, 96 Three aspects of moral theory - Answer- standard: law of God (1 jn 3:4) Goal: glory of God (1 cor 10:31) Motive: love of god (Jn 14:15) Implications of moral theory - Answer- grounded in divine character and will (mt 5:48), accountability grounded in divine judgment (Rom 14), involves natural and special rev (ps 119) Salvation - Answer- basic problem: sin inviting wrath and judgment ( Gen 3, Rom 3:9) Only solution: salvation through cross (Rom 3: 21) Trinitarian act of Salvation - Answer- Phil 2:6 appointed by God accomplished by Son Applied by the HS Divine Grace in Apolo - Answer- 1 Cor 15:10 Classical Apolo - Answer- faith based on reason Two stage method CA - Answer- 1. show God exists (theistic argument) ontological argument, cosmological argument, teleological arguement, moral argument 2. Show JC son of God using historical arguments. Prophecy, character, miracles, resurrection Ontological (define, who) - Answer- non-existence of God is not consistently conceivable (the a priori) : God is by definition a perfect being and if he is a perfect being he must be metaphysically necessary. - Anslem, plantinga, Decartes A priori argument - Answer- relies on evidence from reason rather than empirical evidence) Cosmological argument - Answer- contingent universe required a necessary first cause - aristotle, Aquinas, Leid Teleological - Answer- apparent design in the universe points to a de