A Little Catch Up

What did you learn…………………

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Jesus Camp’s • Becky Fischer

http://www.youtube.com/user/kidsinministry

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Jesus Camp’s • Levi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYpcZZh6ilY

Jesus Camp’s Ted Haggardhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHb1NDoUMOI

And ………..Marjoehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmI9kMplmGg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5eyEUSk2ig

College Moment• The more you have to offer the more they

will offer.• If you need a fresh opinion regarding your

college decisions….I am available and happy to help.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Theology• Theology (from Greek Θεός meaning

"God" and λογία, -logy, meaning "study of") is the systematic and rational study of concepts of God and their influences and of the nature of religious truths.

Christianity: A Brief History• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=WpkoQeIJGXM

Table Assignment• What are the distinctives of Christianity?

List at least Five……………………..

Christianity What are the two “foundations” upon which

Christian theism rests? 1. General revelation – is God communication

regarding his existence to all people at all times.

2. Special revelation – the person and work of Jesus Christ.

LinchpinLinchpin- is a pin passes through an axle to

keep a wheel in position.

Special Revelation is the linchpin that holds the case for Christianity together. One can understand reality by understanding the story of God of which Christ is the center.

C.S. Lewis“ Unless I believe in God I can not believe in

thought.”It makes more sense to think that our own rational

thought processes are the product of some higher intelligence rather than billions of years of random incidents. Human reasoning must be suspect if not the result of a previous reasoning process. (52)

Characteristics of GodSovereign - Daniel 4:35

Moral – Proverbs

Patient – Exodus 32: 11- 14

Faithful - John 10:28

Powerful – Hebrews 1:10

Just – Jude 15

Loving and Forgiving John 1:12, Eph 1:7

Islam: Key Beliefs• One God (monotheism)• Angelic Hierarchy - Gabriel is the highest angel - Two angels assigned to each person to

record good and bad deeds - Jinn bad or mischievous spiritsGod has sent a

Islam con’t• A prophet assigned to each nation with

same message- There is only one God. All people should submit to him. There will be a judgment of deeds, both good and evil.”

• Muslims affirm: Adam, Abraham, Noah, David, Solomon, Jonah, John the Baptist and Jesus ( as a prophet).

More Islam….• The Prophets were given holy books: - Moses – Torah - David –Psalms - Jesus – The Gospels - Muhammad – The Qur’an Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the only one of

these documents that is available in an uncorrupted form.

Does this sound familiar?• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=AS0I6B7d6rc&list=PLF8A1B10F5C6F3C34

Trinity• Muslims are confused by this doctrine

because the Qur’an teaches the doctrine of the Trinity as polytheism.

• Thus, followers of Islam believe that Christians are polytheistic.

• Muslims believe that Islam fulfills Christianity.

Five Pillars of Islam• The Confession of Faith (“There is no God but

Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet”)• Prayers five times a day, facing Mecca• Almsgiving about 1/40 of income and

holdings, primarily for the poor• Fasting during the month of Ramadan• Pilgrimage to Mecca

Islam: More Info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB5YHMVM0Eg

Stop video at the five minute mark. End of Part #1

Extreme and Serious

WHY

Table Activity • Compare and contrast Christian theology to

the Islamic theology.

Secular Humanism• A Godless Religion ….

Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism and other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.

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Secular Humanism Beliefs• Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational

analysis.

• Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change

• Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience.

• Life's fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals.

• Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships.

• Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness.

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Guiding Documents

• Humanist Manifesto I• Humanist Manifesto II• Humanist Manifesto 2000

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Humanist Manifesto• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=kDYnM1e5_Z0

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfcPxHseDw

Comparison Continued Add Secular Humanism to the comparisons

you have started.

Marxism/ LeninismAtheistic at its core:

Marx said that God is a projection of man’s alienation from himself, labor, and from a human community cruelly divided by class barriers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rbQHJ9b3o

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Salvation – Man’s salvation would/will come in creating a mundane utopia that can only be built when men stop believing in promises of a kingdom to come in the time after time. (spiritual religion)

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Marxism/ Leninism

In this worldview there is a constant struggle between the

haves; (bourgeois a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be

determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.) and the have not's :(proletariat: (in Marxist theory) the class of workers, esp. industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive.)

Marxism/ Leninism

• Current Number of Citizens in Communist Countries: 1.5 billion

• People Killed by Communism 110,000,000

Marxism/ Leninism

Table Activity• Add this theology to your chart.

Cosmic Humanism• Pantheism -is the view that the

universe/nature and God are identical.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwXiFXZCnYk

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Cosmic Humanism• is an extremely large, loosely structured network of• organizations and individuals bound together by common values (based in mysticism )• monism—the world view that 'all is one and a common vision (a coming 'new age' of• peace and mass enlightenment, the 'Age of Aquarius')."• believe that 'all is one'—• everything that exists consists of one and thesame essence or reality.• A second assumption is that this Ultimate Reality is neither dead matter nor unconscious

energy. • It is Being, Awareness, and Bliss • A Hindu conception of God as an impersonal, infinite consciousness and force).• The first two assumptions imply two more: all that is, is God (which is pantheism);• and man, a part of 'all that is,' is likewise divine.

Cosmic Humanism: In our own backyard

Three days before former congressional candidate Abel Tomlinson climbed into a tree at the county courthouse in a rant that got him arrested, he paid $45 to file articles of incorporation with the state to create the Psychedelic Pantheism Church

Atheistic - God is an antiquated notion that reasonable people have moved past.

There is no God and thus no real morality.

If it is right for you and does not do great harm to anyone else then it is right.

Postmodernism

Postmodernism• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=gwAD8FaOHgs

• I make my own reality.

Postmodernism• Seventy-two percent of Americans agree, "There is no such thing as absolute truth; two

people could define truth in totally conflicting ways, but both could still be correct."• Seventy-one percent of Americans agree, "There are no absolute standards that apply

to everybody in all situations."• Fifty-three percent of those who claim there is no such thing as absolute truth identify

themselves as born-again Christians.• Forty-two percent of those who identify themselves as evangelical Christians agree,

"There is no such thing as absolute truth; two people could define truth in totally

conflicting ways but both could still be correct."

Final AssignmentFinish your comparison by adding Cosmic

humanism and postmodernism to the chart.