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Monotheism
There
is only one God, the God of the Bible, the Creator of all that exists, that
stands outside the universe and is not a part of it.
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Monotheism
Only three modern religions share this viewpoint,
and all of them are based on the revealed religion of ancient Israel.
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
The book of Genesis begins by
assuming that there is only one true God, and that assumption is maintained
throughout the OT. Both the OT and NT begin with or assume the reality of God,
not as some speculative premise, but as universallly manifest in nature, man's
reason and conscience, and divine revelation. (see Deut. 4:35,
39; 5:7; 32:39; Exod. 20:3; Josh 24:15; 1 Kgs. 18:21; Hos. 4:12; Isa. 2:8, 20;
17:8; 31:7; 45:21; Jer. 10:5, 10; Acts 17:22-31; 1 Cor. 8:4).
The central core of the Christian faith is either absolute truth or it
is nonsense. Being absolute, the truths which it proclaims also claim to be
eternal. If they were not absolute, if they were not eternal, they would not be
worth believing. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, is relative, relative
to what at any given moment happens to have been found out about the natural
world. A religion which is in constant process of revision to square with
science's ever-changing picture of the world might well be easier to believe,
but it is hard to believe it would be worth believing.Philosopher [C.E.M. Joad, The Recovery of Belief,
1955]
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The Major
World Views
Agnosticism
Holds that truth is "unknowable."
Rationalism
Sees all of nature as rational and the making of proper
deductions is essential to achieving knowledge.
Pragmatism
Is
more concerned with what 'works' than with what's true.
Monism
Everything is an undifferentiated oneness or
unity.
Henotheism
One supreme god, not necessarily to the exclusion of
other lesser gods.
Liberalism/Modernism
We must rethink and adapt our concept of God and truth
to fit with modern culture and modes of thinking.
Pantheism/Naturalism
Everything is god.
Polytheism
There are many gods.
Atheism
There is no God.
Monotheism
There is only one God.
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Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:
“Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as
I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found
an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as
something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
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