Apologetics Final Exam 2023 Practice Questions and Answers 100% Verified
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Apologetics Final Exam 2023 Practice Questions and Answers 100% Verified
How does the cross serve as a symbol of both strength and humility?
The future glory Christians will have in CHrist helps us to carry our cross with bold humility as we live in and engage with the world
What is an apologe...
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How does the cross serve as a symbol of both strength and humility?
The future glory Christians will have in CHrist helps us to carry our cross with bold
humility as we live in and engage with the world
What is an apologetics of glory?
-seek honor, power, and personal satisfaction from an apologetic encounter
-exhibit pride and triumphalism
-diminish the scandal of the cross to make it more palatable to the current culture
What does it mean to be an apologist at the cross?
-Engage others with humility, honesty, and confidence in the apparent foolishness of the
cross
-sacrifice personal triumph
-submit to God and His word
What are the idols of cultural acceptance?
Ethics and knowledge
Ethics
Modify the Bible's ethics in favor of one that is more acceptable, to an ethics based on
self-gratification or personal freedom as the highest good
Submitting to God's authority
We must seek to change others because we fear God, not seek to change God
because we fear others
Knowledge
Humans also lust for autonomous, exhaustive knowledge. As creatures, we are
contingent beings
realizing the limits of creaturely knowledge
It is important to acknowledge that there are certain mysteries in the world that God has
not filled us in on, and that we will never have the independent, all-encompassing view
on reality that God does
What is strong empiricism?
-Does not accept anything unless empirically verified
-Is self-refuting and impractical
-Does not consider that intelligent people don't interpret data the same way
-Rejects that sin affects our reasoning, affections, and cultural plausibility structures
-accepts a limited amount of proofs i.e. 5 + 5 = 10
What are unrealistic expectations?
-expects a God's eye view of the world
-does not consider that there are questions that aren't answerable in black and white
-in practice, refuses to see that humans are limited
What are the six lessons learned from the study of humility and wisdom in
Proverbs?
-Listen and take others seriously—Prov. 18:13
-Avoid falsely representing the other side (21:28)
-Resist assuming motives (16:2; 20:5)
, -Find points of agreement to affirm (15:1)
-Resist focusing on periphery (13:10)
-Avoid being unnecessarily antagonistic (20:3)
Know the three specific aspects of a theological anthropology
humans are 1) intellectually reflective and 2) moral beings who 3) worship.
intellectually reflective beings
-focusing on the analytical and empirical apologetic methods can leave the false
impression that apologetics is exclusively an intellectual activity in which people make a
decision for or against Christianity just by sorting out all the facts
-While we do use our intellect when we make commitments and decisions, we never
make them on purely intellectual basis
moral beings
not all humans or cultures agree on a particular moral standard, but that all humans and
cultures have a moral standard and make moral judgments about what is good, bad,
appropriate, inappropriate, meaningful, and inconsequential
worshipping beings
-All people worship something
-The thing we love most is what we will serve, and what we serve is what we love most
Know the three anthropological models discussed in connection with James K. A.
Smith and which model of human beings he proposes and why ("desiring"
beings).
-Humans as primarily "thinking" beings
---Our mind is who we are, our body is merely accidental
-Humans as primarily "believing" beings
---Defined by a worldview that is pre-rational or supra-rational
-Humans as primarily "desiring" beings
---Embodied agents of desire or love
Be familiar with the section that discusses why reasons are not always enough.
-people have to want to believe
-it is human nature to "change our beliefs to fit our loves," and to be "less ready to
change our loves to fit our beliefs."
-the art of persuasion can't be boiled down to simple logic or list of the evidence
Why do we need story and imagination as part of the apologetic method?
-It makes the listener want to believe
-Affect how we see and relate to the world around us, they ultimately have a strong
effect on how we live our lives
-"basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total
construction of a worldview"
native rationality
The universally shared internal mechanism that work to produce beliefs such as "the
reality of the external world..."
cultural rationality
Refers to the frameworks assumed by a culture that "further define the sorts of things"
those in that culture "consider it plausible to believe"
basic logic
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