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1
The worst sin in Islam is
shirk
, which when translated into English means...
idolatry
theft
murder
adultery
2
Aestheticism, that life is to create beauty and meaning out of absurdity, is an expression of existentialim
True
False
3
Sire calls his chapter on Deism "The Clockwork Universe" because it describes their view of God as a Divine Watchmaker.
False
True
4
Theism is the foundational worldview, the one from which all others developing between 1700 and 1900 essentially derive.
False
True
5
Fill in the blank: "What personal, life-orienting core _____________________ are consistent with this woldview?"
Beliefs
Commitments
Feelings
Behaviors
6
Nihilism is more of a feeling than a philosophy. It is a denial of any philosophy or worldview.
False
True
7
Which postures best fits this statement: talking among ourselves about how bad or dysfunctional things are becoming.
Copying Culture
Critiquing Culgure
Condemning Culture
Consuming Culture
8
Naturalist Richard Dawkins calls natural selection...
Our only hope
The blind watchmaker
His god
A foolish fantasy
9
According to Sire, which is NOT an Existentialist author?
Camus
Satre
Heidegger
Baudelaire
10
Sire says one's WV is a commitment of the heart. The heart is “the central defining element of the human person".
True
False
11
Naturalists say that values, ethics, and morals come from God.
True
False
12
When Clarles Baudelaire saw the evil in the world made by the Deist God he said, "If God exists, he must be the devil"
True
False
13
A common New Age belief is that human nature is evolving to a higher consciousness
True
False
14
James Sire believes postmodernism is correct in its critique of optimistic forms of naturalism.
True
False
15
Buddhism may look very similar to Hinduism on the surface, but there are many things that distinguish the two.
True
False
16
According to Nihilism, humanity's emergence can be attributed to...
deep spiritual realities beyond our understanding
God
Chance
17
Which posture best fits this statement: We imitate culture, replacing offensive bits with more Christian ones.
Copy Culture
Consume Culture
Critique Culture
Create Culture
18
When James Sire says that man being made in the image of God has "gregariousness" he means that human beings are...
Foolish
Angry
Social Beings
Lonely
19
New Age is a set of pessimistic beliefs about human nature
False
True
20
What is the main point of this quote from an Existentialist? "The brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile."
there is a huge mystery in the workings of the human mind
the human mind is separate from the brain
thoughts r not from the spirit of a man but chemical reactions of the brain
21
James Sire commented that when we examine New Age beliefs we are studying a worldview in its
Pure Essence
Late adolescence
Dying Years
Absurdity
22
According to James Sire, this type of medicine might have its source in New Age beliefs
Holistic
Expensive
Sports
Internal
23
In Hinduism, Brahman is ultimate reality and is beyond good and evil.
False
True
24
James Sire suggests that which of these movies have been influenced in some degree by New Age themes?
All of the above
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Matrix
Star Wars
25
According to Sire, Nihilism is a denial of everything.
False
True
26
According to sociologist Christian Smith, a brand of Deism popular with most American teenagers these days is called...
Postmodern Deism
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Make Your Own God ism
27
Sire claims that any time Nihilists are trusting their thinking they are being inconsistent?
True
False
28
A simple definition for worldview is: Beliefs that drive behavior.
True
False
29
According to James Sire, the political system which attempts to put naturalism into practice is called...
Marxism
Capitalism
Anarchy
Democracy
30
Sire claimed that people are always aware of the assumptions they have about their own worldviews.
False
True
31
Which is NOT a viewpoint about prime reality held by biblical theists?
God is infinite
God is transcendent
God is personal
God both exists and does not exist.
32
Biblical theists believe that ethics are universal and absolute because they...
are derived from various cultures
are based on the unchanging character of a good God
are determined by man's best attempt to improve his life
can only be found in some cultures
33
Choose the option that BEST describes the biblical view of truth.
no one can know anything with any amount of certainty
man must do his best to make his own meaning in a meaningless world
it is impossible to have any certainty to know if God is real
humans can know the world and God because God has made them to do so.
34
Which is NOT a concept connected to Karma?
every soul should suffer for the past evil it has done
the Eastern version of "you reap what you sow"
God loves us and accepts us by grace
Ultimate reality is beyond good and evil
35
According to James Sire, this medical doctor is a promoter of New Age beliefs...
Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. C Everett Coop
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Phil
36
The Muslim prayer
Allahu akbar
is proclaimed five times a day and is translated "God is love".
False
True
37
From a biblical theist perspective, what is the basis for morality?
Parents teaching their children rules
The nature and character of God as is revealed in his Word
The majority-view of society, since society bears the imago Dei
God’s law as passed down by Abel and his descendants
38
Which is NOT a worldview question based upon Sire's book
The Universe Next Door
?
What is the meaning of life?
What is a human being?
Why is it possible to know anything at all?
What is prime reality—the really real?
39
Sire sees Existentialism depending upon Naturalism. In this sense he sees Existentialism as a __ of Naturalism.
Twin
Parasite
Enemy
Friend
40
According to Naturalism, the cosmos exists as a uniformity of cause and effect in an
open system
True
False
41
Saying that God created the world
ex nihilo
means that He made it "out of nothing" and only by His word.
False
True
42
The Deists of the 17th and 18th centuries believed all of the following EXCEPT...
God is personal
God is powerful
God is infinite
God created the universe
43
While worldview itself is invisible because it is internal and based upon beliefs, culture is worldview made visible.
False
True
44
Culture is taking the raw materials of life and rearranging them to express...
Confusion
Meaning
Nothing
Irrelevance
45
A Muslim declaration of faith is "There is no God but Allah and Muhammed is the Prophet of God."
True
False
46
James Sire identified the first "bridge" that led from Naturalism to Nihilism as...
a belief in Jesus Christ as Lord of all
a belief in absolute truth
the lack of a basis for humans to have any real choice
the depressing music of the era
47
Atman is Brahman means...
that Jesus Christ is Lord in Hindi
Atman was a religious leader in Hinduism who changed his name to Brahman
the individual "soul" is the "Soul" of the whole cosmos
ultimate reality is unknowable
48
A metanarrative is...
the opposite of modernism
a master story encompassing all other stories
the truth about aliens
a way of looking at the value of literature
49
The word culture and what culture means is clearly defined in the Bible and can be quoted from a specific Bible verse.
True
False
50
Which of the following choices best describes the progression of worldviews in the West?
Wv's progressed from mere natural beliefs to supernatural beliefs
Wv's progressed from trusting science and to trusting Scripture
Wv's went from belief in God → impersonal God → no God → no purpose at all
51
Existentialism leads to
solipsism
, the false belief that...
the Bible IS absolute truth to Christians only, but not to unbelievers.
each person alone is the determiner of values
there is no reality
52
In the biblical worldview history is...
Absurd
Chaotic
Linear
Cyclical
