Eight world views

Question 0

Deism

Answer 0

God created the world but is no longer in it. Gives no credit to Gods immanence and transcendency.

Question 1

Pantheism

Answer 1

Confuses God and the World. The world is God

Question 2

Dualism

Answer 2

Radical separation of the universe into two parts. One is good and the other is bad. Negates the idea of a good God who orders a creation toward a good end.

Question 3

Determinism

Answer 3

The world is controlled by a power so absolute that it completely destroys humans freedom and responsibility. God predetermines all decisions and outcomes prior to human actions.

Question 4

Omnicausality

Answer 4

God not only determines all outcomes but that he actually causes and carries out all actions himself. God is the only action agent.

Question 5

Indeterminism

Answer 5

It consist of the notion that the world is not under any intelligible control whatsoever-there is only natural causation. There is no reality beyond the universe.

Question 6

Chance

Answer 6

The controlling power of the universe is unintelligible, impersonal, and does not behave in rational ways. There is an irrational force or power that controls good and bad events. Ex. Baseball players rituals

Question 7

Fate

Answer 7

The ultimate controlling power of the universe (fate) is evil and fickle. Fate is there to trip you up. The goal for a human is to escape one’s fate.

Question 8

AC

Answer 8

I believe in God the father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And on Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried. He descended to hell, on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended to heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father almighty, thence He will come to judge the living and the dead;

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the commiunion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.