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Podcast 52: Theism, Atheism, and Pantheism (Apologetics 3)
Apologetics 3: Theism, Atheism, and Pantheism
In Building Belief, Chad Meister uses a worldview comparison chart to simplify all the religions of the world into three broad categories: theism, atheism, and pantheism. This strategy will help you to compare and contrast five major aspects of these three worldviews, including theology, ontology, epistemology, axiology, and anthropology. Next, you can evaluate each of the three main possibilities on the basis of logic and livability. This way of looking at world religions can especially help you in talking to others about the faith.
If you would like to take this class for credit, please contact the Atlanta Bible College so you can register and do the necessary work for a grade. Here now is lecture three: Theism, Atheism, and Pantheism.
Notes:
worldview: “a collection of beliefs and ideas about the central issues of life…the lens through which we ‘see’ all of reality” (Meister, 39)[1]
origin, meaning, morals, destiny
paradigm
atheism
pantheism
theism
God/gods/divinity (theology)
no supernatural
arguments for God
God is everything; everything is God
if God has a mind then he can’t be a rock; if he doesn’t have a mind then he is not a person
one or more gods exist apart from nature
problem of evil; no empirical test for supernatural beings
reality (ontology)
naturalism (big bang + evolution)
big bang needs cause, origin of 1st life, Cambrian explosion
no distinction between creator and creation
why can’t I read minds if there is only one mind?
physical and spiritual realities both exist; spiritual first then physical
God of the gaps
knowledge (epistemology)
scientific method
can’t prove logic, can’t understand love or altruism
can’t trust senses; learn through meditation; look with in
then I don’t need to listen to you teach me how to think about pantheism (only ideas I conceive of are true)
knowledge gained through senses (scientific method) and revelation (divine insight)
what about wackos who say God told them to kill their children?
morality (axiology/ethics)
socially constructed, determined by evolution
if no absolute source for morals, then why follow them? selfishness leads to dysfunction
evil is an illusion; eliminate attachments
can’t detach from loving my children
God sets absolute standard for right and wrong
Euthyphro dilemma
humanity (anthropology)
physical only, electro-mechanical machines
difficult to explain consciousness
spiritual only, physical is a deception
but I know I have a physical body!
both physical and spiritual
brain damage affects personality
atheism
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Apologetics 3: Theism, Atheism, and Pantheism
In Building Belief, Chad Meister uses a worldview comparison chart to simplify all the religions of the world into three broad categories: theism, atheism, and pantheism. This strategy will help you to compare and contrast five major aspects of these three worldviews, including theology, ontology, epistemology, axiology, and anthropology. Next, you can evaluate each of the three main possibilities on the basis of logic and livability. This way of looking at world religions can especially help you in talking to others about the faith.
If you would like to take this class for credit, please contact the Atlanta Bible College so you can register and do the necessary work for a grade. Here now is lecture three: Theism, Atheism, and Pantheism.
Notes:
worldview: “a collection of beliefs and ideas about the central issues of life…the lens through which we ‘see’ all of reality” (Meister, 39)[1]
origin, meaning, morals, destiny
paradigm
atheism
pantheism
theism
God/gods/divinity (theology)
no supernatural
arguments for God
God is everything; everything is God
if God has a mind then he can’t be a rock; if he doesn’t have a mind then he is not a person
one or more gods exist apart from nature
problem of evil; no empirical test for supernatural beings
reality (ontology)
naturalism (big bang + evolution)
big bang needs cause, origin of 1st life, Cambrian explosion
no distinction between creator and creation
why can’t I read minds if there is only one mind?
physical and spiritual realities both exist; spiritual first then physical
God of the gaps
knowledge (epistemology)
scientific method
can’t prove logic, can’t understand love or altruism
can’t trust senses; learn through meditation; look with in
then I don’t need to listen to you teach me how to think about pantheism (only ideas I conceive of are true)
knowledge gained through senses (scientific method) and revelation (divine insight)
what about wackos who say God told them to kill their children?
morality (axiology/ethics)
socially constructed, determined by evolution
if no absolute source for morals, then why follow them? selfishness leads to dysfunction
evil is an illusion; eliminate attachments
can’t detach from loving my children
God sets absolute standard for right and wrong
Euthyphro dilemma
humanity (anthropology)
physical only, electro-mechanical machines
difficult to explain consciousness
spiritual only, physical is a deception
but I know I have a physical body!
both physical and spiritual
brain damage affects personality
atheism
description:
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