2. WELCOME

3. Acts 14.8–18

4. Acts 17.16–34

9. Apologetics: Having & Defending a Biblical Worldview
Lesson 02: What Is a Worldview & Why Is it Important?

10. What Is a Worldview?

11. The lens through which a person views everything

12. A worldview is a view of the world

13. God

14. Beginning of universe / humanity

15. God’s interaction with the world, if any

16. Miracles

17. Make-up of the person: soul, body, both; mortal or immortal

18. Life after death

19. Origin and end of evil

20. Ethics / morality: basis and nature

21. Development and purpose of life / humanity

22. Acts 14.8–18

23. Acts 17.16–34

24. Acts 23.6–8

25. What Is a Worldview?

26. How Does it Impact Me?

27. God

28. Beginning of universe / humanity

29. God’s interaction with the world, if any

30. Miracles

31. Make-up of the person: soul, body, both; mortal or immortal

32. Life after death

33. Origin and end of evil

34. Ethics / morality: basis and nature

35. Development and purpose of life / humanity

36. Our worldview drives our thoughts, feelings, decisions, and actions

37. Life’s most important questions

38. Affects every area of our lives

39. What we eat

40. What we wear

41. Where and how we work

42. How we interact with other humans / earth

43. Politics

44. Laws

45. Money

46. History

47. How Does it Impact Me?

48. What Are Some Differing Worldviews?

49. Theism: an infinite, personal God exists beyond and in the universe

50. Theism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

51. Deism: God is beyond the universe, but not in it

52. Deism: Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

53. Atheism: no God exists beyond or in the universe

54. Atheism: Karl Marx, Richard Dawkins

55. Pantheism: God is the ALL / Universe

56. Pantheism: Hinduism, [Zen] Buddhism, Christian Science

57. Panentheism: God is in the universe, as a mind is in a body

58. Finite Godism: a finite God exists beyond and in the universe

59. Polytheism: many gods exist beyond the world and in it

60. Polytheism: Greeks, Mormons, wiccans

61. What Are Some Differing Worldviews?

62. What Is the Biblical Worldview?

63. There is one God who is infinite and personal

64. This God created the universe out of nothing to be finite

65. This God is beyond the world (unseen realm) and in the world

66. This God has performed miracles throughout history

67. This God made man with immortal soul and body

68. This God will resurrect all humans to reward or punishment

69. This God gave humans a free will and we have chosen to do evil

70. This God will bring evil to an end with a final victory over the Evil One

71. This God is the basis of all ethics and morality, making them absolute

72. This God has revealed himself in his inspired scriptures and by incarnation

73. What Is the Biblical Worldview?

74. How Can We Know the Biblical Worldview Is Right?

75. Jesus

76. Apologetics: Having & Defending a Biblical Worldview
Lesson 02: What Is a Worldview & Why Is it Important?

77. What Is a Worldview?

78. How Does it Impact Me?

79. What Are Some Differing Worldviews?

80. What Is the Biblical Worldview?

81. How Can We Know the Biblical Worldview Is Right?

82. Matthew 7.21–27

83. Everything is wrong

84. We can know God

85. Blissful future with God

86. Do you have a biblical worldview?

87. Are you faithfully following God?