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APOLOGETICS FINAL EXAM AND STUDY GUIDE
NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM ALL 138
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
WITH RATIONALES
Terms in this set (138)
• Apologetics: the reasoned defense of the Christian
What Is Apologetics?
faith.
What is Christianity? • It is an entire worldview (or "world-and-life view").
(1) Proof - Offering reasons to believe that the
Christian worldview is true or reasonable.
What three aspects make (2) Defense - Countering reasons to believe that
up an apologetic? Christian worldview is false or unreasonable.
(3) Offense - Offering reasons to believe that non-
Christian worldviews are false or unreasonable.
(1) to glorify God
(2) to silence unbelievers
(3) to evangelize unbelievers
(4) to edify the church and the believer
Why Do Apologetics? (5) to protect the church and the believer
• Analogy: curative medicine versus preventative
medicine
(6) to promote theological insight
(7) to develop critical thinking skills
...making an apology (in the popular sense).
...an excuse for being argumentative.
What Apologetics Is Not
...a form of intellectual bullying.
...a substitute for evangelism.
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• 2 Exhortations and 2 Examples
2 Exhortations
(1) Peter's exhortation:
"...but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy,
always being prepared to make a defense (apologia)
to anyone who asks you for a reason (logos) for the
hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and
respect..." (1 Pet. 3:15)
(2) Jude's exhortation:
"Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you
about our common salvation, I found it necessary to
What is the biblical write appealing to you to contend for the faith that
mandate for apologetics? was once for all delivered to the saints." (Jude 3)
2 Examples
(1) John's Example:
"Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of
the disciples, which are not written in this book; but
these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you
may have life in his name." (John 20:30-31)
(2) Paul's Example
"And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three
Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the
Scriptures..." (Acts 17:2) Many examples in Acts
• It is their network of ultimate beliefs, assumptions,
values, and ideas that functions as a framework for
What is a "worldview"?
interpreting their immediate experiences and for
interacting with the world.
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• Theology: presuppositions about God (and about
ultimate reality).
• Anthropology: presuppositions about humans
(origins, nature, purpose, etc.).
What it TAKES to make a • Knowledge: presuppositions about knowledge and
worldview? truth (whether, what, how, etc.).
• Ethics: presuppositions about goodness and morality
(source, nature, goal, etc.).
• Salvation: presuppositions about the basic human
problem and its solution.
• There is a God!
• God created the world (everything other than God)
and is not dependent on the world.
What constitutes the • Creation is a finite reflection of its Creator: rational,
Christian worldview? moral, purposeful, orderly, one/many.
Theology: • God is a Trinity: one God in three distinct Persons
• God is a perfect being: he possesses all perfections
and no limitations
• God is a (or rather the) Personal Absolute
• Created humanity: we were created by God in his
image
• Fallen humanity: we are fallen in sin and separated
What constitutes the
from God
Christian worldview?
• Sin affects every aspect of our being: will, intellect,
Anthropolgy:
emotions, etc.
• Redeemed humanity: we can be restored in the
image of God through Christ
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• All human knowledge is grounded in divine
revelation.
• Humans can (and do) have knowledge of God
through:
- Nature
- Scripture
• Humans can (and do) have knowledge of the world
through:
- Nature —both logical reasoning and sense
experience
- Scripture
• A person's knowledge and understanding depends
crucially on their spiritual state.
What constitutes the - Unregenerate unbelievers...
Christian worldview? • ...suffer from the noetic (i.e., intellectual) effects of
Knowledge: sin.
• ...suppress their natural knowledge of God in their
unrighteousness
• ...yet still have no excuse for their unbelief
• ...will not and cannot submit to God's Word
• ...are liable to the "futility of unbelief"
• ...are kept by common grace from the full
consequences of their sin and unbelief.
- Regenerate believers...
• ...are healed (at least partially) from the noetic
effects of sin
• ...have a saving knowledge of God
• ...readily submit to God's Word
• ...should think in a distinctively Christian way
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