Midterm Flashcards

1
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To divide or separate into 2 parts

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Bifurcation

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2
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Buying into the lies of the world or flesh

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Common insanity

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3
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Looking at life from a 360 degree perspective

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Compass illustration

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4
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Covering a wide area, all exclusive, large in scope

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Comprehensive

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5
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Battle between God’s truth and the lies and illusions of the world, the flesh and the devil

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Cosmic battle

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6
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To lead from God’s truth into false beliefs

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Delude

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7
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A false source of salvation, sustenance, or power

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Idol

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8
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Losing touch with reality

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Insanity

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9
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Any condition that is a departure or deviation from the true design

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Pathology

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10
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Disorderly, confused, jumbled

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Pell-Mell

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11
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Lie that man is basically good

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Pernicious lie

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12
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Social institutions or systems that we live and interact in

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Spheres

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13
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Correspondence to reality

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Truth

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14
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Study of truth

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Veritology

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15
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Powerful and deceptive use of words in which a seemingly simple statement is made

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Assumptive language

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16
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A formal worldview based ultimately upon that nature, character, and being of God

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Biblical worldview

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17
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Impulsive, unpredictable, characterized or subject to whim

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Capricious

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18
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The complete or exact opposite of something

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Antithesis

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19
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Philosophy that says that nothing exists outside the box

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Cosmic cube

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20
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Standard by which people ought to be

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Ethics

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21
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Comprehensive set of truth claims that purports to paint a picture of reality

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Formal worldview

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22
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Present in and involved in the created universe

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Immanent

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23
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The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality and basically everything to the max met

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Metaphysics

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24
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The rightness or wrongness of conduct

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Morality

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25
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Truth and reality are derived from Nature and Natural causes

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Naturalism

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26
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Individual truth claims

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Particulars

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27
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Set of truth claims you have embraced

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Personal worldview

28
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Love of wisdom

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Philosophy

29
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Cluster of philosophies with the underlying assumption that no one worldview can claim to be truth, which often results in relativistic thinking and the use of language as a power play

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Postmodernism

30
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More concerned with PRActical results than with principles or truth

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Pragmatic

31
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Truth and reality are derived from Nature and Natural causes

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Spiritual naturalism

32
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Study of mAnkind

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Anthropology

33
Q

Biblical view of man that he is composed of both natural And supernatural elements, both flesh and spirit

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Dualistic

34
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Created in the image of God

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Imagio Dei

35
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Created from the stuff in the box

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Imagio Goo

36
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Humanistic and naturalistic view of man that man is Simply material, made of One substance, and has no spiritual dimension

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Monistic

37
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Humanistic phycology theory that advocates getting in touch with one’s inner-desires in order to help develop or achieve one’s full potential

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Self-actualization

38
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Innocence, fallen, redeemed, and death

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States of man

39
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Existing outside, above and independent, of the material universe

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Transcendent

40
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Relating to or advocating the doctrine that value is measured in terms of usefulness, concerned with practically

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Utilitarian

41
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Belief that God created the universe and has since assumed no control over life, exerted no influence on nature, and given no supernatural revelation

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Deism

42
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Jealous God

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El Qanna

43
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Belief that God and the material world are one and the same thing and that God is present in everything

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Pantheism

44
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Belief that God created and governs humans and the world

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Theism

45
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Study of God

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Theology

46
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Origin of species

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Charles Darwin

47
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Specific area of evolutionary biology involving natural selection

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Darwinism

48
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Fossilized remains of plants and animals

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Fossil record

49
Q

Where did the cosmos come from?

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Great Cosmological Question

50
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Very early assumption made on the basis of limited evidence used as a starting point for further investigation

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Hypothesis

51
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Scientific theory that nature and complex biological structures were intelligently designed and, as such, are not the result of chance

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Intelligent design

52
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A Complex system that could not function if it were Not any simpler

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Irreducible complexity

53
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A statement of scientific fact that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon is invariable under given circumstances

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Law

54
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Branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of macromolecules essential to life

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Molecular biology

55
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Theory in evolutionary biology that says the appearance of new species occurs Suddenly and without continuous Slow Variations

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Punctuated equilibrium

56
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Formal and legally binding agreement

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Covenant

57
Q

From or out of nothing

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Ex nihilo

58
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Human nature of Free will

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Free agents

59
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A process where history is altered or the past is reinterpreted in order to accomplish a particular agenda or objective

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Historical revisionism

60
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Skeptical

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Incredulous

61
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An over-arching story, philosophy or worldview that seeks to explain reality

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Meta narrative

62
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Nearsightedness

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Myopia

63
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A sickness we all suffer from

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Natural myopia

64
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Statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact may be true

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Paradox

65
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Wisdom, guidance, and control provided by God

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Sovereign

66
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God, man, and church

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Intimate three

67
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God’s design of social institutions

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Social order