Lesson #4 Successfully Defending The Faith

 

Worksheet #1 Type: Text A Biblical Worldview For Success By: Dr. Marshall Foster

1.	The three major reasons the Pilgrims came to America was:
		a)	To get free land, make lots of money and to enslave the Indians
		b)	To export goods back to England, export slaves back to England & to look for gold
		c)	To educate their own children, build a prosperous free-enterprise colony that would attract others to their colony and faith, and to take the gospel to another part part of the world
2.	John Quincy Adams said that in New England in the 1800's
		a)	Very few people could read
		b)	One out of every one hundred could read
		c)	Only four out of one thousand were illiterate
3.	After the U.S. Supreme Court kicked God out of Americas schools by outlawing prayer and the reading of the Bible and the posting of the Ten Commandments:
		a)	Religious intolerance decreased
		b)	Crimes among students drastically decreased
		c)	Student crimes and suicide increased drastically and SAT scores dropped drastically
4.	Dr. Francis Schaeffer defined a presupposition as:
		a)	A feeling you have about something
		b)	The basic way a person looks at life or their worldview
		c)	A collection of a person's actions
5.	In thinking about classroom instruction, most Americans have adopted the myth of:
		a)	Evolution
		b)	Neutrality
		c)	bipartisanship
6.	Professor Ron Jenson said, "Your worldview may be conscious or unconscious, but it determines" what?
		a)	How long you will live
		b)	The destiny of ones life
		c)	How much money you will make
7.	A person's worldview will:
		a)	Change as they go from one country to another
		b)	Shape a few of the decisions he makes
		c)	Shape every conclusion he draws
8.	Americans have been convinced that basic education skills and facts can be taught without:
		a)	Having students memorize their multiplication tables
		b)	A religious or philosophical bias
		c)	Teaching the alphabet
9.	It cannot be denied that the greatest universities, as well as literacy and education for the common man, were a product of:
		a)	The government
		b)	The humanist association of America
		c)	Christianity and the practice of a Christian worldview
10.	Which five things were a by-product of Christianity?
		a)	America's first universities
		b)	Literacy and education for the common man
		c)	The American baseball league
		d)	America's free enterprise system based on honesty and hard work
		e)	A Representative form of government
		f)	Slavery in America
		g)	Using children for forced labor in sweat shops
		h)	The abolishment of slavery in America
		i)	The first restaurants in America
11.	Deuteronomy 6:4-12 gives five essential declarations for biblical success. The five essentials are:
		a)	Know God and His character and attributes
		b)	Make early to bed and early to rise a practice in your life
		c)	Always remember that a penny saved is a penny earned
		d)	Love the Lord and have a personal relationship with Him and faith in Him
		e)	Teach your children a trade so they will always have a job
		f)	Teach God's Truth to your children
		g)	Mark yourself, home and business with obedience to God's law
		h)	expect blessings for you and your children for 1,000 years
		i)	God helps those who help themselves

 

Worksheet #2 Type: Audio When Critics Ask By: Dr. Norm Geisler

1.	If God cannot err and the Bible is the Word of God, then:
		a)	The Bible might not have any errors
		b)	The Bible still can have some errors in it
		c)	The Bible cannot err
2.	Whether people believe or don't believe what Jesus said does not change the fact that what Jesus said:
		a)	Was mostly true
		b)	Was 100% true
		c)	Was true if you want it to be true
3.	To deny the Bible is the Word of God is to deny that:
		a)	Jesus Christ is the Son of God
		b)	Jesus Christ was a good teacher
		c)	Jesus is one of many ways to salvation
4.	The evidence confirms that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and therefore the evidence confirms:
		a)	That the Bible is not the inerrant Word of God
		b)	That the Bible is the inerrant Word of God
		c)	That the Bible may be the inerrant Word of God
5.	The Bible is the Word of God in the past and it is the Word of God:
		a)	In the near future
		b)	In the foreseen future
		c)	In the future
6.	Jesus said the Bible:
		a)	Is indestructible
		b)	Has ultimate supremacy
		c)	Is vulnerable to the attacks of the skeptic and critic
		d)	Is historically reliable
		e)	Is temporary
		f)	Has scientific accuracy
		g)	Is truth
		h)	Is factually inerrant
		i)	Will last for a season
7.	Concerning the origin of man and woman, Jesus said that we:
		a)	Were created by God
		b)	Evolved
		c)	We were the product of a random process of chance
8.	God, who cannot make mistakes, used man that can make mistakes and moved upon them to make sure that they:
		a)	Only made a few mistake when writing His Word
		b)	Did their best in writing His Word
		c)	Made no mistakes when writing His Word
9.	Peter said that holy men spoke as they were moved:
		a)	By their feelings
		b)	By the Holy Spirit
		c)	By their emotions
10.	Christ is the living Word and the Bible is:
		a)	The spoken Word
		b)	The Word
		c)	The written Word
11.	Just as Jesus Christ is the living Word without sin, so is the Bible the written Word of God without:
		a)	Error
		b)	Many Errors
		c)	Offense to anyone
12.	Just as Jesus Christ had a human nature and divine nature and was without sin:
		a)	So man can have a human nature and be created by the Divine and not sin
		b)	So the Bible could have been under divine influence but been infected with errors by human nature
		c)	So the Bible can be of human nature and divine nature being written by man under the influence of the Holy Spirit and not have errors
13.	2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Man breathed
		b)	God breathed
		c)	God and man breathed
14.	Matthew 4:4 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Out of the mouth of God
		b)	Out of the mouth of man
		c)	Out of the mouth of both God and man
15.	Psalms 19:7 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Nearly perfect
		b)	Perfect and can not be broken
		c)	Vulnerable and fragile
16.	Who did King David say was the source of the 72 Psalms he wrote?
		a)	Himself
		b)	A committee of men
		c)	God
17.	Just because we don't have all the answers concerning the Bible does not mean there is not an explanation but that:
		a)	The explanation has yet to be discovered
		b)	The explanation may not be understood by us here on earth
18.	When we find something in the Bible that we don't understand we should:
		a)	Ignore that part of the Bible
		b)	Question the reliability and trustworthiness of the Bible
		c)	Continue our research for the answer
19.	If there is an apparent contradiction in the Bible, the conclusion should not be that God, the author, is mistaken but that:
		a)	The manuscript may be faulty
		b)	The translation may be wrong
		c)	You have not understood something correctly
20.	If we think we have found an error in the Bible then the error may be the fault of:
		a)	God
		b)	The men that wrote the New Testament
		c)	The manuscript
		d)	The translation
		e)	Our understanding
21.	What inaccurate assumptions do the critics and skeptics make concerning the Bible:
		a)	The Bible is guilty until proven innocent
		b)	The Bible is the Word of God and can be trusted
		c)	They confuse man's fallible interpretation with God's infallible revelation
22.	Christians have an infallible Bible but our interpretation is:
		a)	Always right
		b)	Sometimes incorrect
		c)	Always accurate
23.	What are some more inaccurate assumptions that critics and skeptics make concerning the Bible?
		a)	That the unexplained is not explainable and thus equals errors in the Bible
		b)	That a partial report is a false report thus equaling errors in the Bible
		c)	That different accounts are false accounts thus equaling errors in the Bible
		d)	That the Bible's use of everyday language makes false statements and thus equals errors in the Bible.
24.	In Joshua 10:12 it speaks of the sun standing still and in Joshua chapter one it speaks of the sun rising. The sun does not stand still nor does it rise so the Bible:
		a)	Does contain errors
		b)	Is using everyday, observational language
		c)	Is unscientific
25.	What are some more false assumptions that critics and skeptics make about Christianity?
		a)	They assume that round numbers are false
		b)	They assume the Bible approves of everything it reports
		c)	That a partial is a false report
		d)	They take figures of speech literally
26.	The Bible uses:
		a)	Parables
		b)	Allegory
		c)	Metaphors
		d)	Hyperboles
		e)	Satire
		f)	Figures of speech
		g)	Similes
		h)	None of the above
27.	How many original manuscripts have been found that contain errors?
		a)	1
		b)	2
		c)	5
		d)	None
28.	We should not criticize the Bible but we should:
		a)	Let the Bible criticize us
		b)	Criticize the author
		c)	Criticize the method by which it was written
29.	People reject God because:
		a)	They have an intellectual problem
		b)	They have a moral rebellion problem
		c)	They don't have enough evidence

 

Worksheet #3 Type: Video Getting America Back to The Bible By: Dr. Woodrow Kroll

1.	In Psalm 19:1, it says that:
		a)	The heavens are silent
		b)	The heavens declare the glory of God
		c)	The heavens show no sign of a creator
2.	Psalm 19:1, also says that the firmament:
		a)	Shows God's handiwork
		b)	Shows no evidence of God
		c)	Shows no design and thus no designer
3.	The atheist has no excuse on judgment day because creation loudly proclaims there is a creator:
		a)	True
		b)	False
4.	While the heavens declare God, the best place to learn about God's character and nature is from:
		a)	Praise and worship music
		b)	The Bible
		c)	A best-selling Christian fiction series
5.	According to Psalm 19:7, what is perfect and converts the soul?
		a)	The Law of the Lord
		b)	The Grace of God
		c)	Good works
6.	According to Psalm 19:7, what is sure and trustworthy?
		a)	The American dollar
		b)	Your friends
		c)	The testimony of the Lord
7.	According to Psalm 19:7, what makes the simple wise?
		a)	Reading Aristotle
		b)	The testimony of the Lord
		c)	The wisdom of man
8.	What is the testimony of the Lord?
		a)	The story of His life
		b)	What He said when He was on trial
		c)	The Bible
9.	Agnostic means?
		a)	You can know
		b)	You can not know
		c)	You can know truth
10.	How do you convert the soul of the atheist who says there is no God or the agnostic that says you can not know if there is a God?
		a)	By using praise and worship music
		b)	By using amusing stories about our pop-culture
		c)	By using the law of the Lord
11.	What does the Bible do to the heart?
		a)	Makes it sad
		b)	Rejoices the heart
		c)	Makes it hard and unforgiving
12.	Psalm 19:8 says the statutes of the Lord are:
		a)	Lucky
		b)	Almost perfect
		c)	Pure
13.	What does it mean to fear the Lord?
		a)	To be afraid to talk to Him
		b)	To respect Him
		c)	To reverence and honor him
14.	In Psalm 19:9, it says the judgments of the Lord are:
		a)	True
		b)	Righteous
		c)	Too harsh
15.	In Psalm 19:10, we read that the words of the Bible are to be desired more than:
		a)	Much fine gold
		b)	Food
		c)	Water
16.	The Bible answers important worldview questions such as:
		a)	Where did we come from?
		b)	Why are we here?
		c)	Where are we going?
17.	We can not have a biblical worldview without:
		a)	Reading lots of books
		b)	Studying the Bible
		c)	Reading the daily newspaper
18.	God helps those who help themselves is a Bible verse:
		a)	True
		b)	False
19.	Since Biblical literacy is so low in the American church, Christians are afraid to talk to the skeptic, critic and seeker because:
		a)	They don't want to offend them
		b)	They don't care about them
		c)	They don't know enough about the Bible to give the reasons for the hope they profess and the validity of the Christian faith
20.	If time is money, as the saying goes, why don't we tithe our time to God and:
		a)	Watch more TV
		b)	Play more basketball
		c)	Spend some time each day reading the Bible
21.	If you spent 48 minutes a day reading the Bible what would happen:
		a)	You could read more than half the Bible in one year
		b)	You could read the entire Bible in one year
		c)	You could read the entire Bible twice in one year

 

Worksheet #4 Type: Test Developing Your Worldview, Test #3

1.	The three major reasons the Pilgrims came to America was:
		a)	To get free land, make lots of money and to enslave the Indians
		b)	To export goods back to England, export slaves back to England & to look for gold
		c)	To educate their own children, build a prosperous free-enterprise colony that would attract others to their colony and faith, and to take the gospel to another part of the world
2.	John Quincy Adams said that in New England in the 1800's
		a)	Very few people could read
		b)	One out of every one hundred could read
		c)	Only four out of one thousand were illiterate
3.	After the U.S. Supreme Court kicked God out of America's schools, by outlawing prayer, reading the Bible, and posting of the Ten Commandments:
		a)	Religious intolerance decreased
		b)	Crimes among students drastically decreased
		c)	Student crimes and suicide increased drastically, and SAT scores dropped drastically
4.	Dr. Francis Schaeffer defined a presupposition as:
		a)	A feeling you have about something
		b)	The basic way a person looks at life or their worldview
		c)	A collection of a person's actions
5.	In the classroom, most Americans have adopted the myth of:
		a)	Evolution
		b)	Neutrality
		c)	bipartisanship
6.	Professor Ron Jenson said, "Your worldview may be conscious or unconscious but it determines" what?
		a)	How long you will live
		b)	The destiny of ones life
		c)	How much money you will make
7.	A person's worldview will:
		a)	Change as they go from one country to another
		b)	Shape a few of the decisions he makes
		c)	Shape every conclusion he draws
8.	Americans have been convinced that basic education skills and facts can be taught without:
		a)	Having students memorize their multiplication tables
		b)	A religious or philosophical bias
		c)	Teaching the alphabet
9.	It cannot be denied that the greatest universities, as well as literacy and education for the common man, were a product of:
		a)	The government
		b)	The humanist association of America
		c)	Christianity and the practice of a Christian worldview
10.	Which five things were a by-product of Christianity?
		a)	America's first universities
		b)	Literacy and education for the common man
		c)	The American baseball league
		d)	America's free enterprise system based on honesty and hard work
		e)	A Representative form of government
		f)	Slavery in America
		g)	Using children for forced labor in sweat shops
		h)	The abolishment of slavery in America
		i)	The first restaurants in America
11.	Deuteronomy 6:4-12 gives five essential declarations for biblical success. The five essentials are:
		a)	Know God and His character and attributes
		b)	Make early to bed and early to rise a practice in your life
		c)	Always remember that a penny saved is a penny earned
		d)	Love the Lord and have a personal relationship with Him and faith in Him
		e)	Teach your children a trade so they will have always have a job
		f)	Teach God's Truth to your children
		g)	Mark yourself, home and business with obedience to God's law
		h)	expect blessings for you and your children for 1,000 years
		i)	God helps those who help themselves
12.	If God cannot err and the Bible is the Word of God, then:
		a)	The Bible might not have any errors
		b)	The Bible still can have some errors in it
		c)	The Bible cannot err
13.	To deny the Bible is the Word of God is to deny that:
		a)	Jesus Christ is the Son of God
		b)	Jesus Christ was a good teacher
		c)	Jesus is one of many ways to salvation
14.	The evidence confirms that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and therefore the evidence confirms:
		a)	That the Bible is not the inerrant Word of God
		b)	That the Bible is the inerrant Word of God
		c)	That the Bible may be the inerrant Word of God
15.	Jesus said the Bible:
		a)	Is indestructible
		b)	Has ultimate supremacy
		c)	Is vulnerable to the attacks of the skeptic and critic
		d)	Is historically reliable
		e)	Is temporary
		f)	Has scientific accuracy
		g)	Is truth
		h)	Is factually inerrant
		i)	Will last for a season
16.	God, who cannot make mistakes, used man that can make mistakes and moved upon them to make sure that they:
		a)	Only made a few mistake when writing His Word
		b)	Did their best in writing His Word
		c)	Made no mistakes when writing His Word
17.	Peter said that holy men spoke as they were moved:
		a)	By their feelings
		b)	By the Holy Spirit
		c)	By their emotions
18.	Christ is the living Word and the Bible is:
		a)	The spoken Word
		b)	The Word
		c)	The written Word
19.	Just as Jesus Christ is the living Word without sin, so the Bible is the written Word of God without:
		a)	Error
		b)	Many Errors
		c)	Offense to anyone
20.	Just as Jesus Christ had a human nature, divine nature, and was without sin:
		a)	So man can have a human nature and be created by the Divine and not sin
		b)	So the Bible could have been under divine influence but been infected with errors by human nature
		c)	So the Bible can be of human nature and divine nature, written by man under the influence of the Holy Spirit and not have errors
21.	2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Man breathed
		b)	God breathed
		c)	God and man breathed
22.	Matthew 4:4 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Out of the mouth of God
		b)	Out of the mouth of man
		c)	Out of the mouth of both God and man
23.	Psalm 19:7 tells us that the Bible is:
		a)	Nearly perfect
		b)	Perfect and cannot be broken
		c)	Vulnerable and fragile
24.	Who did King David say was the source of the 72 Psalms he wrote?
		a)	Himself
		b)	A committee of men
		c)	God
25.	Just because we don't have all the answers concerning the Bible does not mean there is not an explanation but that:
		a)	The explanation has yet to be discovered
		b)	The explanation may not be understood by us here on earth
26.	When we find something in the Bible that we don't understand we should:
		a)	Ignore that part of the Bible
		b)	Question the reliability and trustworthiness of the Bible
		c)	Continue our research for the answer
27.	If there is an apparent contradiction in the Bible, the conclusion should not be that God, the author, is mistaken but that:
		a)	The manuscript is faulty
		b)	The translation is wrong
		c)	You have not understood something correctly
28.	If we think we have found an error in the Bible then the error is the fault of:
		a)	God
		b)	The men that wrote the New Testament
		c)	The manuscript
		d)	The translation
		e)	Our understanding
29.	What inaccurate assumptions do the critics and skeptics make concerning the Bible:
		a)	The Bible is guilty until proven innocent
		b)	The Bible is the Word of God and can be trusted
		c)	They confuse man's fallible interpretation with God's infallible revelation
30.	Christians have an infallible Bible but our interpretation is:
		a)	Always right
		b)	Sometimes incorrect
		c)	Always accurate
31.	What are some inaccurate assumptions that critics and skeptics make concerning the Bible?
		a)	That the unexplained is not explainable and thus equals errors in the Bible
		b)	That a partial report is a false report thus equaling errors in the Bible
		c)	That different accounts are false accounts thus equaling errors in the Bible
		d)	That the Bible's use of everyday language makes false statements and thus equals errors in the Bible
32.	In Joshua 10:12, it speaks of the sun standing still and in Joshua chapter one, it speaks of the sun rising. The sun does not stand still nor does it rise so the Bible:
		a)	Does contain errors
		b)	Is using everyday, observational language
		c)	Is unscientific
33.	What are some more false assumptions that critics and skeptics make about Christianity?
		a)	They assume that round numbers are false
		b)	They assume the Bible approves of everything it reports
		c)	That a partial is a false report
		d)	They take figures of speech literally
34.	The Bible uses:
		a)	Parables
		b)	Allegory
		c)	Metaphors
		d)	Hyperboles
		e)	Satire
		f)	Figures of speech
		g)	Similes
		h)	None of the above
35.	How many original manuscripts have been found that contain errors?
		a)	1
		b)	2
		c)	5
		d)	None
36.	We should not criticize the Bible but we should:
		a)	Let the Bible criticize us
		b)	Criticize the author
		c)	Criticize the method by which it was written
37.	People reject God because:
		a)	They have an intellectual problem
		b)	They have a moral rebellion problem
		c)	They don't have enough evidence
38.	In Psalm 19:1, it says that:
		a)	The heavens are silent
		b)	The heavens declare the glory of God
		c)	The heavens show no sign of a creator
39.	Psalm 19:1 also says that the firmament:
		a)	Shows God's handiwork
		b)	Shows no evidence of God
		c)	Shows no design and thus no designer
40.	While the heavens declare God, the best place to learn about God's character and nature is from:
		a)	Praise and worship music
		b)	The Bible
		c)	A best-selling Christian fiction series
41.	According to Psalm 19:7, what is perfect and converts the soul?
		a)	The law of the Lord
		b)	The grace of God
		c)	Good works
42.	According to Psalm 19:7, what is sure and trustworthy?
		a)	The American dollar
		b)	Your friends
		c)	The testimony of the Lord
43.	According to Psalm 19:7, what makes the simple wise?
		a)	Reading Aristotle
		b)	The testimony of the Lord
		c)	The wisdom of man
44.	What is the testimony of the Lord?
		a)	The story of His life
		b)	What He said when He was on trial
		c)	The Bible
45.	Agnostic means?
		a)	You can know
		b)	You can not know
		c)	You can know truth
46.	How do you convert the soul of the atheist who says there is no God or the agnostic that says you can not know if there is a God?
		a)	By using praise and worship music
		b)	By using amusing stories about our pop-culture
		c)	By using the law of the Lord
47.	What does the Bible do to the heart?
		a)	Makes it sad
		b)	Rejoices the heart
		c)	Makes it hard and unforgiving
48.	Psalm 19:8 says the statutes of the Lord are:
		a)	Lucky
		b)	Almost perfect
		c)	Pure
49.	What does it mean to fear the Lord?
		a)	To be afraid to talk to Him
		b)	To respect Him
		c)	To reverence and honor him
50.	In Psalm 19:9, it says the judgments of the Lord are:
		a)	True
		b)	Righteous
		c)	Too harsh
51.	In Psalm 19:10, we read that the words of the Bible are to be desired more than:
		a)	Much fine gold
		b)	Food
		c)	Water
52.	The Bible answers three important worldview questions such as:
		a)	Where did we come from?
		b)	Why are we here?
		c)	Where are we going?
		d)	What happens next
		e)	When will the world end
53.	We can not have a biblical worldview without:
		a)	Reading lots of books
		b)	Studying the Bible
		c)	Reading the daily newspaper
54.	Biblical literacy is so low in the American church that Christians are afraid to talk to the skeptic, critic, and seeker because:
		a)	They don't want to offend them
		b)	They don't care about them
		c)	They don't know enough about the Bible to give the reasons for the hope they profess and the validity of the Christian faith
55.	If time is money, as the saying goes, why don't we tithe our time to God and:
		a)	Watch more TV
		b)	Play more basketball
		c)	Spend time each day reading the Bible
56.	If you spent 48 minutes a day reading the Bible what would happen?
		a)	You could read more than half the Bible in one year
		b)	You could read the entire Bible in one year
		c)	You could read the entire Bible twice in one year