Test 2: Presuppositions and Assumptions/ Foundations for Living
Assumptions and presuppositions
What influences our worldview?
presuppositions
What is an assumptions that influences our view of the world, and are things we believe without evidence?
unmerited, undeserved, and unearned favor
What is grace?
Such rules do not change even when the individual or culture rejects it. Everyone is obligates to obey these rules.
What is moral absolutism?
the theory that absolute knowledge of things is impossible and the truth depends on how one perceives it.
What is moral relativism?
Has to do with behavior in relation to right or wrong, and is based on one's opinion.
What is moral truth?
Immaterial and cannot be proven
What is morality?
Is free from personal feelings, opinions, and prejudices.
What is objective truth?
Conforms to reason
What is rational truth?
Turning with sorrow from a past course of action
What is repentance?
Presuppositions
What is something implied as a necessary antecedent (earlier, former) condition; a basic assumption which influences our view of the world?
The Ten Commandments
What is the basic framework for solving issues?
Explicit
What is the things said by God and implied because of the action taken on what is said by God?
A statement of belief which corresponds to the reality; a fact as the object of correct belief; reality.
What is truth?
Our presuppositions are different
Why can communication be difficult?
Because of its deceitfulness
Why can you not rely on the heart of man for moral guidance?
That is the way things have always been. It always happens the same way.
Why do we assume things?
The Bible and convictions of the Holy Spirit
How does God communicate His standards?
