CWV-301-Topic 6 Study Guide -On Ground PDF

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1. Read the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20.
a. Briefly list the commandments.
b. What promise does God give for keeping the fifth commandment to honor your father and mother?...

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Topic 6 Study Guide This study guide is a tool designed to prepare students for the Topic 6 Quiz. Complete this study guide as directed by your instructor. When completing this study guide, answers should be in your own words or quoted with quotation marks and be drawn from one of the course readings (textbook and overview referenced below), or other sources listed in the syllabus. Outside sources, including internet sites, are not acceptable. When quoting and paraphrasing, include all authors' last names for citations that have multiple authors. For quoted citations, be sure to include the page or paragraph number(s). The quiz will be graded for accuracy, so take time to seek the correct answers for this topic review before you attempt the quiz. The quiz will be administered in class.. Please type your answers below each question. 1. Read the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. a. Briefly list the commandments. 1. Have no other gods before God the Father 2. Don't make or worship any idols 3. Don't take Lord's name in vain 4. Keep Sabbath day holy and observe it 5. Honor your father and mother 6. Don't murder 7. Don't commit adultery 8. Don't bear false witness against your neighbor 9. Don't covet 10. Don't be jealous of anyone else b. What promise does God give for keeping the fifth commandment to honor your father and mother? You will live a long life c. How do the first four commandments differ from the last six? How God wants us to show love for Him How God wants us to interact with others 2. Read the Beatitudes, the blessings of Jesus in the opening verses of the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5:1-12. Which one is repeated and emphasized? Blessed are the persecuted. Because, the Lord says those that are will be rewarded greatly in heaven.

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3. From the Topic 6 Overview, what two commandments did Jesus say are the greatest? You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 4. From The Beginning of Wisdom, write the short quote that philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made famous about truth. There is no truth, only interpretations. 5. From The Beginning of Wisdom, describe how Raphael, in his great painting School of Athens, depicted Plato and Aristotle. Plato's gesture: some people believe that truth is grounded in universal principles established by God and that those principles govern reality which leads to right and wrong. Aristotle's gesture: some believe that truth is discerned through sensory experience of particular examples found in the world which leads to a more practicality-based view of right and wrong that focuses on circumstances and situations rather than principles. 6. According to The Beginning of Wisdom, most views of truth recognize that truth is discerned by what three means? reason empirical data experience 7. According to The Beginning of Wisdom, what is the nihilistic view of knowledge? Removing the possibility of anything of substance beneath or beyond individual interpretation 8. Briefly define general and special revelation. General revelation: refers to the ways that God reveals himself through what he has created, throughout the course of history, and in the natural laws that commonly are discerned through scientific analysis. Special revelation: refers to the ways that God reveals himself to individuals and communities who can then share what he has made known with others.

9. According to The Beginning of Wisdom, how would you describe a pantheist's understanding of truth? Nature or the "whole show" is god. The universe contains god. 10. Describe the difference between universal morality and moral relativism.

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Universal morality: Claims there are moral rules that are true and apply to all people, in all places and at all/in all times. Moral relativism: Claims that the 'right or wrong' of a situation is dependent upon the people, time, place, culture and a range of other factors.

11. From Chapter 8 of The Beginning of Wisdom and the Topic 6 Overview, define exclusivism and pluralism. Exclusivism: there is only one way to God or to pleasing God. Pluralism: there are many ways to God. 12. Express what Jesus is saying in John 14:6 in your own words. Jesus is the only way to God 13. According to the topic overview, what kind of absolute truths require the existence of God? Moral and spiritual

Sources to use for this study guide: Grand Canyon University. (2020). CWV-301 topic 6 overview [Class document]. LoudCloud. https://lms-ugrad.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/user/login.lc Holland, R., & Jibben, J. (2020). The wisdom of absolutes. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), The beginning of wisdom: An introduction to Christian thought and life (3rd ed.). https://lc.gcumedia.com/cwv101/the-beginning-of-wisdom-an-introduction-to-christianthought-and-life/v3.1/#/chapter/7 McLendon, J. (2020). Obstacles to wisdom. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), The beginning of wisdom: An introduction to Christian thought and life (3rd ed.). https://lc.gcumedia.com/cwv101/the-beginning-of-wisdom-an-introduction-to-christianthought-and-life/v3.1/#/chapter/8

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