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Unit 1, Lesson 4
The Worldviews
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Read Genesis 3:8-24 and answer the following
questions:
1. What was the consequence for the woman?
2. What was the consequence for the man?
3. What was the consequence for the serpent?
4. Why did the man and woman have to leave the
Garden of Eden?
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Worldview definitions
• A pattern of beliefs, convictions, and habits that
help us make sense of God, the world, and our
relationship to God and the world
• The total set of beliefs a person has about the
biggest questions of life
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Every worldview begins with the assumption of
a closed or open systemClosed: the world is naturalistic; there are no
supernatural beings, nothing outside of what we can
sense
Open: there is a transcendent Being that acts on the
world. There is reality beyond what we can sense
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Postmodernism
• Belief that all meta-
narratives are oppressive
and cannot be trusted.
The believe we cannot
know truth because all
versions of the truth
come from culture and
circumstances.
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Marxism
• Seeks to create a worker’s
paradise when workers
rise up to overthrow those
who own property. This
utopian state is called
communism.
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Secularism
• Belief that humans are the
center of reality and no
belief in anything that is
transcendent. They believe
man is the answer to
man’s problems.
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New Spirituality
• A free flowing
combination of Eastern
religions, paganism, and
pseudo-science that is not
governed by a personal
God, but by
“consciousness”
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Islam
• A religion of submission to
Allah. Muslims believe one
must do five things
specified by the Quran.
These five things are called
the pillars of the Muslim
faith
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Christianity
• Offers a narrative of all history. It
begins with God’s special creation
of human beings, shows the
consequences of their fall from
grace, and promises redemption
through the sacrificial death of
Jesus on the cross.