Study Guide Week 3
Module/Week 3: Mankind and Sin
Textbook Readings:
Towns: Chs. 8 & 10
Chapter 8
1. What point does the author illustrate with an elephant and 4 blind men?
…Comparing it to the way people describe and see life and the world
2. Do Moslem leaders claim that Christianity and Islam are alike in that Allah was “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?”
No
3. What are the 4 questions that Darwinians have not been able to answer?
- Where is the missing link
- How can man evolve to be the apex of living beings if the fact suggest the process of evolution goes the other way
- Where life originated.
- Refuse to believe or even explore data that suggest intelligent design.
4. What question did the old Presbyterian catechism address first?
-What is the chief end of man? Answer: To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
5. What do Christians believe the source of suffering to be?
-Conditions in this world, not from God.
6. What two reasons does the author suggest that we can know that Christianity actually explains life as we know it?
1- Christianity is a consistent belief system. It answers all the questions of life and answers perfectly correspond to one another.
2- Christianity is a belief syatem that provides satisfying life systems for all who follow Jesus Christ and it works in all cultures of the world.
Chapter 10
1. What is the relationship to works and salvation?
Faith is prompted by God’s love to do good works.
2. Why do Christians do good works?
1- The love of God
2- Gratitude
3- The command from the Bible
4- Pragmatism
Etzel & Gutierrez: Chs. 11–15
1. Does the image of God refer to something a human is or something a human does?
Something a human is
2. Being created in the image of God should help to point one another to whom?
King of Kings
3. Is the image of God mentioned in both the Old Testament and the New Testament?
Yes
4. What ideas are included in the six
Textbook Readings:
Towns: Chs. 8 & 10
Chapter 8
1. What point does the author illustrate with an elephant and 4 blind men?
…Comparing it to the way people describe and see life and the world
2. Do Moslem leaders claim that Christianity and Islam are alike in that Allah was “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?”
No
3. What are the 4 questions that Darwinians have not been able to answer?
- Where is the missing link
- How can man evolve to be the apex of living beings if the fact suggest the process of evolution goes the other way
- Where life originated.
- Refuse to believe or even explore data that suggest intelligent design.
4. What question did the old Presbyterian catechism address first?
-What is the chief end of man? Answer: To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
5. What do Christians believe the source of suffering to be?
-Conditions in this world, not from God.
6. What two reasons does the author suggest that we can know that Christianity actually explains life as we know it?
1- Christianity is a consistent belief system. It answers all the questions of life and answers perfectly correspond to one another.
2- Christianity is a belief syatem that provides satisfying life systems for all who follow Jesus Christ and it works in all cultures of the world.
Chapter 10
1. What is the relationship to works and salvation?
Faith is prompted by God’s love to do good works.
2. Why do Christians do good works?
1- The love of God
2- Gratitude
3- The command from the Bible
4- Pragmatism
Etzel & Gutierrez: Chs. 11–15
1. Does the image of God refer to something a human is or something a human does?
Something a human is
2. Being created in the image of God should help to point one another to whom?
King of Kings
3. Is the image of God mentioned in both the Old Testament and the New Testament?
Yes
4. What ideas are included in the six