Bible New Age quiz #3
Posted by Smudge on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Under: Bible
pgs. 355-364
-Christians look for truth in the Bible
-Muslims look for truth in the Koran
-New Agers look for truth within themselves...they believe they themselves are God.
-truth to a New Ager is: local, subjective, and relative...not universal, objective, and absolute
-Brad Pitt is a New Ager and he said: Do "what feels right for you"!
-New Agers believe that each person must determine what is right and what is wrong for himself or herself. (so do naturalists)
-New Agers also believe people have the right to make and change their moral values.
-Floating morality: New Agers don't believe in God; but they believe in morals...It's not connected to anything...New Agers have nothing to base their morality on. But Christians back up their morality with the Bible.
-New Agers say: don't judge people. Issue: If you say don't judge people, you are judging people by saying that.
-Jesus says: Don't judge people if you're struggling with the same thing yourself.
-The New Age thinking about truth and moral values goes around and around in circles. Eventually the real differences between right/wrong, good/evil, justice/injustice, and kindness/cruelty become very blurred. Nothing is really right, and nothing is really wrong.
-Christian view: our moral awareness comes from God...in two primary ways:
1. conscience - Romans 2:15 - God's law is written in their hearts.
2. the Bible -
-God's moral laws are:
• objective - real and existing independently of us
• absolute - absolutely perfect in every way, and they absolutely never change
►Matthew 5:18 - God's moral laws aren't going to change
►Isaiah 5:20-21 - If you say good is evil and evil is good, then bad things will happen to you...
• universal - applying to everyone at all times
• If you ignore God's moral laws:
►Proverbs 14:12 - there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• God's truth sets us free from the false "truths" of all the unbiblical worldviews like Islam, Naturalism, and New Age.
-Christians look for truth in the Bible
-Muslims look for truth in the Koran
-New Agers look for truth within themselves...they believe they themselves are God.
-truth to a New Ager is: local, subjective, and relative...not universal, objective, and absolute
-Brad Pitt is a New Ager and he said: Do "what feels right for you"!
-New Agers believe that each person must determine what is right and what is wrong for himself or herself. (so do naturalists)
-New Agers also believe people have the right to make and change their moral values.
-Floating morality: New Agers don't believe in God; but they believe in morals...It's not connected to anything...New Agers have nothing to base their morality on. But Christians back up their morality with the Bible.
-New Agers say: don't judge people. Issue: If you say don't judge people, you are judging people by saying that.
-Jesus says: Don't judge people if you're struggling with the same thing yourself.
-The New Age thinking about truth and moral values goes around and around in circles. Eventually the real differences between right/wrong, good/evil, justice/injustice, and kindness/cruelty become very blurred. Nothing is really right, and nothing is really wrong.
-Christian view: our moral awareness comes from God...in two primary ways:
1. conscience - Romans 2:15 - God's law is written in their hearts.
2. the Bible -
-God's moral laws are:
• objective - real and existing independently of us
• absolute - absolutely perfect in every way, and they absolutely never change
►Matthew 5:18 - God's moral laws aren't going to change
►Isaiah 5:20-21 - If you say good is evil and evil is good, then bad things will happen to you...
• universal - applying to everyone at all times
• If you ignore God's moral laws:
►Proverbs 14:12 - there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• God's truth sets us free from the false "truths" of all the unbiblical worldviews like Islam, Naturalism, and New Age.
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