Apologetics Midterm Exam Questions
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Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud and Numerology - ✔✔Freud
believed in numerology (the belief that numbers have mystical power and
significance). Believed that he had figured out the day of his death. This is
an issue because of its logical inconsistency. You cannot argue against
God and claim that there is an order in the universe.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud's belief about the genesis of
religion - ✔✔He believes religion is a psychological "crutch". He believes
that it was all based on fear. (A big dad with a stick)
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Jung and Archetypal thinking as it
relates to "all religions are the same" - ✔✔Universal beliefs-> guilt, a belief
in ethics or a belief in morality. All cultures believe in morality, a cultural
statement. The fact that they deal with the big ideas, doesn't mean that
they deal with them in the same way. (ie... Buddhism believes all of life is
suffering, in Christianity, we do deal with suffering, but anything that is in
process is imperfect.)
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,Psychological aspects of apologetics: Depression rates and belief in God
(study) - ✔✔Duke university study- believers have 50% less depression
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud's Fainting Spells - ✔✔Freud
fainted twice when two people in his inner circle became a Christian. His
theory of fainting is fainting is the inability to receive news that you have
heard and it causes you to faint. Freud on freud.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Studies on Longevity - ✔✔The
actively religious individual...
- Lives 7 years longer
- Does better in times of tragedy
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Study on death of a child -
✔✔Believers do better in times of tragedy, 8/10 marriages fall apart after
the death of a child for the non-religious individual.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Studies on immunology and heart
attacks - ✔✔Duke University- If you believed in God, you had a shorter
hospital stay, you, you seem to get out quicker. If you believed in God, you
had less recurrence of a heart attack. People who believe in God seem to
have better immune systems than people don't.
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, Psychological aspects of apologetics: Why does Dr. Davis yell at the
whiteboard about meaning? - ✔✔In the Atheist idea, the universe is an
accident, devoid of all meaning. As members of the universe, we are also
an accident, devoid of all meaning. If the universe and us have no
meaning, then it is illogical to try and add our own meaning. It falls flat
because nothing matters. Therefore, it's like screaming into the void (the
whiteboard), "I have meaning, I really do!" To which, we could say this
attribution of meaning is a psychological crutch.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: What is science of the gaps? -
✔✔People just want to fill in gaps with science. Scientific community says
Christians are illogical because that's what they do with God, but they are
guilty of just filling gaps in logic when they don't have an answer.
Van Til, Borrowed Capital- explain the concept and give two examples: -
✔✔Using standards other than God to judge God; Mackey
- whenever the unbeliever makes an argument, they always argue from
borrowed capital to even argue is to borrow.
- Ethics, meaning, order in the universe
i. Richard Dawkins, etc., say that people adopted these principals to be
survive
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Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud and Numerology - ✔✔Freud
believed in numerology (the belief that numbers have mystical power and
significance). Believed that he had figured out the day of his death. This is
an issue because of its logical inconsistency. You cannot argue against
God and claim that there is an order in the universe.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud's belief about the genesis of
religion - ✔✔He believes religion is a psychological "crutch". He believes
that it was all based on fear. (A big dad with a stick)
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Jung and Archetypal thinking as it
relates to "all religions are the same" - ✔✔Universal beliefs-> guilt, a belief
in ethics or a belief in morality. All cultures believe in morality, a cultural
statement. The fact that they deal with the big ideas, doesn't mean that
they deal with them in the same way. (ie... Buddhism believes all of life is
suffering, in Christianity, we do deal with suffering, but anything that is in
process is imperfect.)
1
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,Psychological aspects of apologetics: Depression rates and belief in God
(study) - ✔✔Duke university study- believers have 50% less depression
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Freud's Fainting Spells - ✔✔Freud
fainted twice when two people in his inner circle became a Christian. His
theory of fainting is fainting is the inability to receive news that you have
heard and it causes you to faint. Freud on freud.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Studies on Longevity - ✔✔The
actively religious individual...
- Lives 7 years longer
- Does better in times of tragedy
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Study on death of a child -
✔✔Believers do better in times of tragedy, 8/10 marriages fall apart after
the death of a child for the non-religious individual.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: Studies on immunology and heart
attacks - ✔✔Duke University- If you believed in God, you had a shorter
hospital stay, you, you seem to get out quicker. If you believed in God, you
had less recurrence of a heart attack. People who believe in God seem to
have better immune systems than people don't.
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, Psychological aspects of apologetics: Why does Dr. Davis yell at the
whiteboard about meaning? - ✔✔In the Atheist idea, the universe is an
accident, devoid of all meaning. As members of the universe, we are also
an accident, devoid of all meaning. If the universe and us have no
meaning, then it is illogical to try and add our own meaning. It falls flat
because nothing matters. Therefore, it's like screaming into the void (the
whiteboard), "I have meaning, I really do!" To which, we could say this
attribution of meaning is a psychological crutch.
Psychological aspects of apologetics: What is science of the gaps? -
✔✔People just want to fill in gaps with science. Scientific community says
Christians are illogical because that's what they do with God, but they are
guilty of just filling gaps in logic when they don't have an answer.
Van Til, Borrowed Capital- explain the concept and give two examples: -
✔✔Using standards other than God to judge God; Mackey
- whenever the unbeliever makes an argument, they always argue from
borrowed capital to even argue is to borrow.
- Ethics, meaning, order in the universe
i. Richard Dawkins, etc., say that people adopted these principals to be
survive
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