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Creator-creature Relationship
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· Creator / Creator
distinction
· Man must view God as
transcendent, loving, infinite, incomprehensible, omniscient, omnipotent,
sovereign, Just, Righteous, & Self-revealing
· Though
God is incomprehensible He is knowable (Eternity in their hearts)
· On
Lucy and the Beaver from
“The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” The
Chronicles of Narnia
· Man made in God’s image
·
Unique design of Man
· The
sacredness of human life
· A high & lofty view of man
·
Creature
Satan Under God’s Authority
·
Man is not a
victim
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Creator-Nature Relationship
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·
God
is in providential control of His universe (including asteroids)
·
God placed a
curse on nature after the Fall of man
·
God made a
post-Flood Covenant with His Creation
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God’s
signature—the Rainbow
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Man-Nature Relationship
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·
Man’s
mandate of responsible dominion
·
Man wrecked original perfect environment
(it’s much worse than beer cans)
· Man
instructed to protect animals Bonding with and Caring for Animals
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Cosmology
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·
Biblical vs Pagan 10 presuppositional differences
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“Origins” at the core of every belief
system
·
People do not get upset over trivial things
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Ex-nihilo creation was not by
Evolution
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Ex-nihilo creation was not by the
“Big Bang”
·
The
“Big Bang” Is Not Theology-Neutral
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The Age of Creation
·
Jesus (on question of divorce) testified to
creation as the defining moment:
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Radioactive decay constants and polonium halos
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Truth
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·
Truth is first and foremost a Person
·
The final Authority
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What is Truth?
·
God reveals Himself
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What is Truth?
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Autonomous man
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Uniformitarianism
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Continuity of Being
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Truth & Language
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Truth & Mathematics
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Man can discover Truth
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Self-Authentication at the Sermon on the Mount
·
1st Sermon on mount = Lord Jesus
Christ to Moses.
2nd
Sermon on mount = Christ to Israel, explained how they misunderstood 1st
Sermon on Mount.
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“Religious Neutrality Theory”
disproved
·
Confucianism, Hinduism,
etc.
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Truth—
Special
Revelation
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·
The Sufficiency of the Scriptures
·
The Hebrew Bible
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Closing the Canon
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Cessation of Sign Gifts
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Work of Holy Spirit Always Elevates Christ
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Protestant versus Catholic Bibles
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Preservation of the Scriptures
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Infallibility
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Inerrancy implied from
Covenants
·
Inerrancy (Jesus and Apostles did not bear false witness)
·
Inerrancy – Archeologist, Wm. F.
Albright
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Interpretation of Contracts Must be Literal
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Discovering Truth in Scripture
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Imagery in Bible Accounts
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Imagery of Rainbow
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Truth—
General
Revelation
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·
The universe is structured to know God
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Creation
by an Aesthetic God
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Truth—
Rejection of
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·
Autonomous man attempts to invent Truth
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Apostasy: No New Forms
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Apostasy: Arianism
·
Universal History Project
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Typical modern denial of Christ
·
Hardening of the heart
·
This could be you
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Examining unbelief
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Truth—
Distinctions
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Evil
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·
Evil was not part of original creation
·
Evil is bracketed
within time
·
Pagan viewpoint that
evil always existed ( Dr. Heidel )
·
Evil in Nature
·
Evil and suffering
·
Evil and Holy War /
Genocide
·
God’s Plan works irresistibly toward
ultimate goal of separating good and evil
·
Evil is allowed to continue by God’s
grace
·
The end of grace
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Judgment –
Salvation
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·
Old Testament Images: (see Truth—Written
Revelation)
o Flood
– Noah’s ark illustrated Judgment / Salvation
o Only one door
o God closed the door
o First
Passover illustrated Judgment / Salvation
o Egyptians
– Exodus illustrated Judgment / Salvation
o Levitical
offerings and sacrifices illustrated substitutionary work of Christ
· Why the Flood is attacked
·
Grace before judgment
·
Cross of Christ fulfilled Judgment / Salvation as
our substitute
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Bema Seat
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Language
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·
Intro, Mortimer Adler: language controls
everything
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Truth is communicated with language
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Language used in graphic events: Creation; Fig
Tree; Eggo Homo; Storm
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The power of language: Eggo homo
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Language & Inerrancy
·
Language
· Proverbs
1:23: “Pour out My Spirit” = ”Make known my Words”
·
Dots and dashes – understanding the message
only by having a relationship with the author of the message
·
“Discrimination”
·
The Christian God speaks Farsi:
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History—
Trends
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·
Purpose of history is
Doxological
·
History IS Going
Somewhere (Acts 17)
·
Bible theology is tied
to history, unlike religions
·
God intervenes in
history
·
God controls history by means of contracts
· Judeo-Christian viewpoint is anchored in history
Argument against
Replacement Theology
· History is an interpretation
·
What about Herodotus?
·
History: Importance of Knowing
·
MacArthur at Japan
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History—
Importance
of knowing
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·
Importance of knowing
history: Tanks, Sand, & Roman Roads
·
Why
it's useful to go to Washington D. C. to the holocaust museum
· “Hitler,
Hess, Goering, Dr. Goebbels, and many other top Nazi leaders came to my
friend's Bavarian home to negotiate with his father… My friend
remembers many long and heated discussions around the fireplace between his
father and the future leaders of the Third Reich.”
· A
Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, who was brought into the courtroom to testify
against Adolf Eichmann
· Justice
Jackson at Nuremburg Trials
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History—
Topical
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· Israel’s
Captivity within Egyptian Chronology
· David
at En Gedi
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Worldview /
Presuppositions
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· Only 2
Worldviews
· Dealing
with modern Pagan worldviews
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Divine
Institution:
Personal
Responsibility
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· Fallen
Man is Held Accountable to God
· Human
Volition
· Victim or Responsible?
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Divine
Institution:
Marriage
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Biblical
versus Pagan views of marriage
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Divine
Institution:
Family
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Biblical
versus Pagan views of family
Family–A
divine institution
Children
can understand
Family Inheritance Laws Designed
to Destroy Family
Our
first School
Our first
Church
C.S.
Lewis
Failure
of male leadership in family
Protecting
one’s family
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Divine
Institution:
Government
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· Capital
punishment
· Murder
= Destruction of an Image of God
· Annual
Reading of the Law in Israel ~ What if every family read the U.S.
Constitution annually?
· Democracy–Tried
and failed
· Libertarian–Tried
and failed
· Monarchy–Tried
and failed
· Biblical
warning regarding totalitarian government
· Socialism—
Soviets Tried 70 Years, and failed
· Taxes
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Spiritual Life—
Salvation
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· Personal
Salvation
· Abe not saved by keeping the
Law
·
Justice:
Skins of animals to cover Adam and Eve’s sinfulness introduce
substitutionary sacrifice
·
Substitutionary
Blood Atonement
· God’s
Plan for my life (vs. Pagan no plan)
several
bullets here
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Spiritual Life—
Handling Sin
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· Washing
vs. Cleansing:
· Confession
of sin
· Punishment for sin
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Spiritual Life—
Our Role
Model
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· The
Christian’s Role Model
· Motivation
is gratitude
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Spiritual Life—
Handling
Pressure
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· Thinking
Through Suffering
· Worshiping
Through a Problem
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Spiritual
Life— Prayer
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· Pray in
Jesus Name
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Spiritual
Warfare
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· Satan’s
accusation of believers
· Persecution
of the Body of Christ
· Satan’s
revisionist history
· Why is
there Anti-Semitism?
· Satan’s
resolve similar to Iwo
Jima
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Problem
Solving
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· Faith
Rest Drill
· Handling
an infant death by S.I.D.S.
· Handling
pain and suffering
·
Living
under persecution caused by “the Name of Jesus”
·
Writings of the exile show how to live under pagan authorities
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Labor
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· “It
is Good” – The first view of our God is in His role as a
laborer
· Labor
not result of Fall
· Mandate
to subdue (from Manhood Series)
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Economics
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· Implications
in Economics implications after
· Free
Enterprise
· Private
Property Rights and Family estate preservation for future generations
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Business
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·
An attorney applies biblical worldview, changing
the focus of his practice (from Eccl. at N. Stonington)
·
Business influenced by Scripture Abraham moves
business 1000 mi.
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Investments
·
Applying framework at work
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Environment
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·
God Created perfect environment for man
·
Responsible Dominion
·
Man wrecked original universe
·
God placed a
curse on nature after the Fall of man
·
Man mandated to protect
Animals
· Noah
mandated to protect and feed the Animals
·
Man’s greatest positive contribution to the
environment
·
Earth Day
·
Curse removed, Jesus Christ, in Hypostatic Union
returns & reigns in perfect environment
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Military /
Defense
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· National Defense
· Terrorism
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Law
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· What is
“Justice?”
· “Sin”
is Against God as the Law Maker
· Justice
demands Retribution
· Law
& Thought
· Basis
of good law
· Basis
of all law is Theology
· What about Hamurabi’s code?
· Lex Rex
– Its role in founding America
· Western
vs Eastern Church
· Justice
Jackson at Nuremburg Trials
· Eminent
Domain
· Setting
aside one’s religious convictions
· Judged
by our peers
·
Applying framework to law at work
·
Liberal vs. Conservative vs. Judges
· On
crime rates (not related to poverty but rather to norms & standards (low crime in depression)
· Egyptian literature never
mentions sin
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Theology
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·
Attributes of God
·
Trinity
·
Problem of polytheism
·
What is idolatry?
·
Our High Priest
·
God’s Sovereignty
(acc. to Dispensational, Reformed, and Replacement theologies)
·
Grace before judgment
·
Roman Catholicism
·
Death of Fundamentalism
in 1930’s
·
Rise of modern
liberalism
·
Education —The
god of Unitarianism
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Pneumatology
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·
Holy Spirit Always
Elevates the Lord Jesus Christ
·
Proceeds from Father
and the Son (Filoque)
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Hermeneutics
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·
Literal interpretation
of the Covenants
·
Literal interpretation
– Archeologist, W. F. Albright
·
Literal interpretation
of Prophecy
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Eschatology
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·
History of
Eschatology
·
The need for the
Eschatology debate
·
Foundational issues
– Tommy Ice
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Amillennialism
·
Amillennialism –
One cause of some anti-Semitism
·
Amillennialism and
evangelism to the Hebrews–Leopold Cohen”
·
Pre-Millennialism
·
Preterism
– Why did it appear in the eschatology debate?
·
Preterism
– What do Preterists believe?
·
Preterism
– Why it cannot be defended from Scripture
·
Post-Millennialism
·
Futurism
·
Puritan position
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Prophecy
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·
Virgin birth
·
Death of Christ
·
Fulfillment versus
analogy
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Pagan
Religions
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·
What is a Pagan?
·
Evil always existed and
never ends
·
Victims of
“Fate”
·
Tablets of Destiny
·
Reincarnation
·
Far-Eastern Religions
·
New Age
·
Charlie Chaplin
—Where the pagan worldview leads
·
Hopelessness
·
Transcendental
Meditation ( TM )
·
Jehovah’s
Witnesses
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Logic
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· 9
Axioms and Euclidian geometry
· Problem
of “N+1st” observation
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Philosophy
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· Emanuel
Kant
· Metaphysics — Who Am
I?
· Epistemology — What is
Truth?
· Ethics — How Should I Then Live?
· Meaning
and Purpose in Life
· Existentialism
as a source of despair
· Existentialism
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Math
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· Conflicting
non-Euclidian geometries
· Non-Euclidian
Universe
· Mathematical
modeling
·
Mathematics is not philosophically or
theologically neutral Theology_And_Apologetics
· Longevity
· God is
required in mathematics
· Geometry
is derivative of the omnipresence of God
· Irrational
and Rational numbers
· Constants
in equations
· Is math
a search for diamonds or the manufacture of synthetic stones?
·
Applying framework to math at work
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Education
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·
Continuity of
Being taught in government schools
·
NSF and NEA
positions on evolution
·
Why College
Profs dislike Free Enterprise
·
Christian
teachers in the public schools
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Science
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·
Limitations
of Experience
·
Meteorologist & Storm
·
Galileo versus the Pope
· On Carl
Sagan …and
the Suppression of Unbelief
·
Evolution—ancient
philosophy, not modern science
·
Implication of
Resurrection to Evolution
·
High- versus
low-energy geological events
·
Time clocks and
geological ages
·
Time clocks
differ depending on gravity
·
“After its
kind”
·
Geologic periods
·
Biology
·
Archaeologist, “No Bible
contradictions” Albright
·
Noahic Covenant controls physics of Nature
·
Information
Theory, Radio-Telescopes, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
( SETI )
·
Applying framework to biology / taxonomy at work
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Medicine and the Human
Body
|
· Uncovered
vessels
· Blood
clotting & circumcision
· Luke
and two pregnancies
· Our
Lord Refused Anesthetic In Order To Be Able To Think Through the Suffering
of the Cross
· Resurrection
body
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Statistics
|
· Some
statistics of Solomon’s “Golden Age”
· The
statistics of the reigns of the kings of Israel
· The
human form is not a statistical accident of an evolutionary process
· Calibrating
a psychology test
· “Normal”
distribution (Bell-shaped curve) is not “normal”
· Population
statistics and the age of the earth
· Lack of
statistical validity among liberal theologians
· The
great depression, poverty, & crime statistics
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Sociology
|
· Racial
Problems:
· Racism
· Polulation
Control
· Illegitimacy
Problem
· Ethnicity
· Slavery
· Statistical
surveys of social behavior
· Using
Jesus to calibrate personality profiles
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Psychology
|
· Worship
through your worries
· Fear
· Why do
teenagers blow their brains out?
· Counseling
· Normality
and personality profiles
· Catatonic
Schizophrenia’s Cure
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Music
|
· Angels singing
at creation
· National
Anthem of Israel
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Art
|
·
Creation
by an Aesthetic God
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Charity
|
·
Christian—not Far-Eastern religions—set
up hospitals and orphanages
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Distinctions of Biblical Worldview
|
·
Only religion based on history
·
Only Biblical God makes contracts with man
·
Only Biblical God brackets evil
·
Only viewpoint in which Truth is first and
foremost a Person
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Quotations
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·
Toser
·
Albright — only God makes contracts
·
Chicago Darwin centennial
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