Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Devotion Assignment Key Due Dates: Preparation Part 2 (Oct 9, submitted in-class), Outline Form (Oct 16, typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)
Journal 3-1: Study Packet, Page 11
"Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth" - Marcus Aurelius
- What do you think of this quote? Is it true? Is it not?
- Write about your own opinion about this truth-claim
- Use 5 or more sentences to explain your answer
What is Truth? Study Packet, Page 2
- Truth: A thought, belief, or statement that correctly reflects the world as it really is
- - It conforms & agrees w/reality
- - Truth is not 'made' by someone's opinions, beliefs/faith, strong feelings, or sense of peace.
- - Religious faith should be supported by true evidence
- - Evidence can test faith & feelings to find the truth
- Reality: The real situation
- - Something that actually exists or happens (similar to truth)
- Opinion: What one thinks or believes about something
- - Just because you believe something, doesn't make it true!
Application of Truth!
- What is wrong with this conversation?
- - - Bill: “Get off the road, there’s a bus speeding at you!”
- - - Sally: “That’s just your truth.”
- - - Bill: “Well, I guess what is true for me isn’t always true for you”
- - This confuses ‘truth’ with ‘opinion’
- What is wrong with this conversation?
- - - Sally : “I don’t believe there are ‘absolute truths’.”
- - - Bill : “Really?”
- - - Sally : “Absolutely!”
- - In a way, this also confuses ‘truth’ with ‘opinion’
- - Also, it is a “Self-Defeating Statement”
Apologetics: Study Packet, Page 2
- Apologetics: To defend the faith with logical answers
- Apologist: This is someone who does apologetics
- Self-Defeating Statement: A statement with an ultimate meaning that destroys its own idea.
- - Examples:
- - - There are no absolute truths:
- - - - This can’t be absolutely true…
- - - You can’t know the truth:
- - - - They can’t know this is true…
- - - All truth is relative:
- - - - But, if this truth is relative, too, that means it all isn’t....
- - - The Elephant Story: We see this in The Elephant Story (pg 6) through how people claim, “I can see that no one can really see what is spiritually true.” This is quite the spiritual insight!
Christian Apologetics: Study Packet, Page 3
- In this, people…
- - Defend Christianity from evidence in many areas of study
- - - Including, but not limited to: Theology, philosophy, & the different branches of science
- They will…
- - Defend how Christianity agrees with true philosophy & science
- - - As has been said, “All truth is God’s truth.”
Self-Defeating Statements:
- If you'd like to study these more, here is a website you can check out: LINK
- Also, here is a longer list of Self-defeating statements from that website
- - You can see the website for explanations of these.
- Examples:
- - I cannot type a word in English
- - There is no truth.
- - You can't know truth.
- - No one has the truth.
- - All truth is relative.
- - All truth is relative.
- - It's true for you but not for me.
- - There are no absolutes.
- - No one can know any truth about religion.
- - You can't know anything for sure.
- - You should doubt everything.
- - Only science can give us truth.
- - You can only know truth through experience.
- - All truth depends on your perspective.
- - You shouldn't judge.
- - You shouldn't force your morality on people.
- - You should live and let live.
- - God doesn't take sides.
- - You shouldn't try to convert people.
- - That's just your view.
- - You should be tolerant of all views.
- - It is arrogant to claim to have the truth.
- What do you think of this quote? Is it true? Is it not?
- Write about your own opinion about this truth-claim
- Use 5 or more sentences to explain your answer
What is Truth? Study Packet, Page 2
- Truth: A thought, belief, or statement that correctly reflects the world as it really is
- - It conforms & agrees w/reality
- - Truth is not 'made' by someone's opinions, beliefs/faith, strong feelings, or sense of peace.
- - Religious faith should be supported by true evidence
- - Evidence can test faith & feelings to find the truth
- Reality: The real situation
- - Something that actually exists or happens (similar to truth)
- Opinion: What one thinks or believes about something
- - Just because you believe something, doesn't make it true!
Application of Truth!
- What is wrong with this conversation?
- - - Bill: “Get off the road, there’s a bus speeding at you!”
- - - Sally: “That’s just your truth.”
- - - Bill: “Well, I guess what is true for me isn’t always true for you”
- - This confuses ‘truth’ with ‘opinion’
- What is wrong with this conversation?
- - - Sally : “I don’t believe there are ‘absolute truths’.”
- - - Bill : “Really?”
- - - Sally : “Absolutely!”
- - In a way, this also confuses ‘truth’ with ‘opinion’
- - Also, it is a “Self-Defeating Statement”
Apologetics: Study Packet, Page 2
- Apologetics: To defend the faith with logical answers
- Apologist: This is someone who does apologetics
- Self-Defeating Statement: A statement with an ultimate meaning that destroys its own idea.
- - Examples:
- - - There are no absolute truths:
- - - - This can’t be absolutely true…
- - - You can’t know the truth:
- - - - They can’t know this is true…
- - - All truth is relative:
- - - - But, if this truth is relative, too, that means it all isn’t....
- - - The Elephant Story: We see this in The Elephant Story (pg 6) through how people claim, “I can see that no one can really see what is spiritually true.” This is quite the spiritual insight!
Christian Apologetics: Study Packet, Page 3
- In this, people…
- - Defend Christianity from evidence in many areas of study
- - - Including, but not limited to: Theology, philosophy, & the different branches of science
- They will…
- - Defend how Christianity agrees with true philosophy & science
- - - As has been said, “All truth is God’s truth.”
At this point we looked at & discussed a series of quotes by different people concerning truth, reality, & opinions. We considered if they were speaking the truth or if it was only an opinion.
- If you'd like to study these more, here is a website you can check out: LINK
- Also, here is a longer list of Self-defeating statements from that website
- - You can see the website for explanations of these.
- Examples:
- - I cannot type a word in English
- - There is no truth.
- - You can't know truth.
- - No one has the truth.
- - All truth is relative.
- - All truth is relative.
- - It's true for you but not for me.
- - There are no absolutes.
- - No one can know any truth about religion.
- - You can't know anything for sure.
- - You should doubt everything.
- - Only science can give us truth.
- - You can only know truth through experience.
- - All truth depends on your perspective.
- - You shouldn't judge.
- - You shouldn't force your morality on people.
- - You should live and let live.
- - God doesn't take sides.
- - You shouldn't try to convert people.
- - That's just your view.
- - You should be tolerant of all views.
- - It is arrogant to claim to have the truth.
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