RLGN 105 MIDTERM (WEIDER) QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+

RLGN 105 MIDTERM (WEIDER) QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ Worldview - Answers A way of looking at life and the world around us. It's a framework for decision making. 2 Ultimate divisions of worldview - Answers A. Theism B. Atheism (non-theism) Theocentric - Answers The existence and reality of God will be at the center of your thinking. Anthropocentric - Answers man centered perspective Syncretism - Answers blending of values and concepts from opposing systems Nihilism - Answers There is no meaning. (God is dead. Life is meaningless) Regeneration - Answers (or born again) Giving a second birth to bring about a new life. Reconciliation - Answers Restoring peace and fellowship to a broken relationship. Redemption - Answers Paying the necessary price to purchase another's freedom. Sanctification - Answers -Setting something apart from common use for exclusive use in the service of God. -The ongoing work of God (The Holy Spirit) in which He develops within the believer a holy lifestyle. Justification - Answers -Declaring something free from guilt in a court of law. -The act of God in which He declares the sinner to be in right standing with Himself. Grace - Answers -Makes Salvation possible. -God acts in kindness to provide something undeserved. -Is demonstrated in the death of Christ on behalf of sinners. -Makes human effort unnecessary in salvation. Faith - Answers -Makes Salvation personal. -Turning toward Jesus. -To trust or believe. -I have heard, understood, and trust in God's provision in Jesus Christ. Repentance - Answers -Makes Salvation personal. -Central to the reaching of Jesus Christ and the apostles. -Turning from sin. -Realizing I am guilty before God who is holy. -A "change of mind." Naturalism - Answers That only reality exists in the natural realm. Pantheism - Answers God and the world are the same thing. Theism - Answers God exists, was the creator of the world, and is personally and intimately involved with His creation. God operates through natural law but can and does intervene in the affairs of mankind. Materialism - Answers -Philosophical Concept: Reality is based in what we can "know" through our senses. -Social Application: Absolute truth is nonexistent of irrelevant to society. Mankind seeks satisfaction and meaning in external things such as position, wealth, accomplishments, etc. Subjectivism - Answers -Philosophical Concept: There is no absolute truth. -Social Application: "Everyone is entitled to their opinions." Everyone makes moral choices based upon what makes them happy. Hedonism - Answers -Philosophical Concept: Defines pleasure and pain according to the human condition and sensory input alone. No other measure of good and evil. -Social Application: "If it feels good, do it!" Pragmatism - Answers -Philosophical Concept: A utilitarian philosophical belief that the end justifies the means. -Social Application: Focus is upon intentions rather upon right and wrong. If one's "intentions" are good, it does not matter what they do. Critical Thinking - Answers A. Recognizing and evaluating opinions and so-called evidence. B. Reflecting on the meaning and significance of statements and ideas. C. Reasonableness of statements and ideas. Absolute Truth - Answers Something that is true at all times and at all places "Truth is true whether we believe it or not. Truth is discovered or it is revealed, it Is not invented by a culture or by religious men" The Law of Non-Contradiction - Answers Something cannot both exist and not exist or be true and false at the same time and in the same way.