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Dichotomy

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Division of an issue into only two simple positions

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Conflation

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Careless collapsing &co-mingling of distinct ideas into ONE undifferentiated concept
•Combining 2 or more ideas into one

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Theism

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Belief in a personal God

•A supreme being that is all powerful and all loving

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Deism

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Belief in an impersonal God

•A supreme being who creates the world and then has nothing to do with it

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Atheism

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Belief that God does not exist

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Agnosticism

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Belief that there is no knowledge regarding existence or non-existence of God

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Conservative Christianity

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Conserves the beliefs of Apostle’s creed

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Liberal Christianity

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Rejects the beliefs of the Apostles’ creed

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Fundamentalism

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Modern Science viewed as an enemy to religion

•Reaction to Liberal Christianity

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Special Revelations

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Belief that God communicates specific information to humanity

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General Revelation

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Belief that God communicates general information to humanity

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Natural Revelation

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Nature reflects God and some of His attributes

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Moral Revelation

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Human conscience and sense of morality

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Interventionism

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Dramatic divine acts

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Providentialism

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Subtle divine acts

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Personal Interventionism

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God raising a dead person to life

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Personal Providentialism

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God working through “nudges” and “co-incidences”

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Cosmological Interventionalism in the origins

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God creating in 6 literal days

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Cosmological Interventionalism in Operations

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God causing retrograde planetary motion

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Cosmological Providentialsim in Origins

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God creating through evolution

•Ordained & sustained natural processes

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Cosmological Providentialism in Operations

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God upholding the solar system

•Ordained and sustained natural processes

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Metaphysics

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Ultimate reality behind or beyond nature
• Ultimate beliefs
-Ideas arising after the
study of nature

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Intelligent Design

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Ultimate belief that the beauty, complexity and functionality in nature reflect or point to the mind of a Designer

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Teleology

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Ultimate belief that the universe and life have an ultimate plan and ultimate purpose

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Dysteleology

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Ultimate belief that the universe and life have NO ultimate plan and NO ultimate purpose

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Epistemology

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Theory of knowledge, rules of knowing

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Positivism

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A theory of knowledge that asserts Truth is only determined by logic and science

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Scientism

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Conflation of science and secular worldview

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Secular Humanism

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ethical position in which humanity ALONE determines morals and values, not GOD as traditionally believed

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Eisegesis

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Reading our views or agenda INTO a book

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Exegesis

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Reading a book’s view or agenda OUT of it
•The goal of reading any
book

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Biblical Inerrancy

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Belief that the Bible has no errors or mistakes because it was inspired by God

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Spiritual Concordism

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Spiritual statements in Bible align with spiritual reality

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Historical Concordism

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Historical statements in Bible align with human history

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Scientific Concordism

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Scientific statements in Bible align with physical reality

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Creation (Professional)

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The things that the creator has made

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Creation (Popular)

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Origin of universe and life in six 24 hour days, 6000 years ago

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Evolution (Professional)

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The scientific theory describing the natural processes that produced all living organisms, including people

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Evolution (Popular)

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A natural process of molecules-to- people thru blind chance only

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Darwinism (Popular)

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Atheistic evolution

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Young Earth Creation

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God Created the universe and life in six 24-hour days, 6000 years ago

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Progressive Creation

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God created life at different points over billions of years

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Evolutionary Creation

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Personal God created universe and life through evolution

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Theistic Evolution (Professional)

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Personal God created through evolution

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Theistic Evolution (Popular)

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Impersonal God created through evolution

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Deistic Evolution

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Impersonal God created universe and life through evolution

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Dysteleological Evolution

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Planless & purposeless evolution produced the universe and life through nothing but blind chance and irrational necessity

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Genesis 1

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God created the earth in 6 days

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Genesis 2

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Creation of Adam and Eve

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Genesis 3

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Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil

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Genesis 4

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Cain kills his brother Abel

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Genesis 5

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The genealogy of Adam to Noah

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Genesis 6 – 9

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Noah’s ark and the flood

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Genesis 10

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The descendants of Noah’s sons

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Genesis 11

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God divided the world with different languages. The genealogy of Shem to Abram

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