Lesson #7 Defending The Christian Worldview in a New Age

 

Worksheet #1 Type: Text The New Age Movement: The Growing National Religion

1.	Many Americans, knowingly and unknowingly:
		a)	Are owed a tax refund
		b)	Have a New Age view and definition of God
		c)	Need to have the oil in their car changed
2.	The New Age Movement is also known as:
		a)	Secular Humanism
		b)	The religion of the sixties
		c)	Cosmic Humanism
3.	The main goal of the New Age movement is:
		a)	To be reincarnated into a less desirable state
		b)	To learn what is right and wrong
		c)	To define yourself
4.	The difference between Secular Humanism and Cosmic Humanism is:
		a)	One word
		b)	One believes in moral absolutes and the other does not
		c)	Secular Humanism is not a religion and Cosmic humanism is a religion
		d)	Secular Humanism proclaims there is no spiritual or supernatural world while Cosmic Humanism believes in the spiritual and supernatural world
5.	Christianity has a theistic worldview which means:
		a)	There are many Gods
		b)	There is no God
		c)	There is only one God
6.	The New Age is:
		a)	A Cult
		b)	Part of the occult
		c)	A sect
7.	The belief that everything is God and God is everything is called:
		a)	Theism
		b)	Atheism
		c)	Relativism
		d)	Humanism
		e)	Pantheism
8.	The only absolute in the New Age Movement is:
		a)	What is right and wrong
		b)	Man's own reasoning, free will, desires and dreams
		c)	Heaven and Hell
9.	The New Age Movement says you should not set limits on:
		a)	Your sleep
		b)	Your diet
		c)	Your sexual energy
10.	The spirit and master guides the New Age consults with are:
		a)	Figments of their imagination
		b)	People who have actually died that talk to them
		c)	Demons
11.	Reincarnation is the belief:
		a)	That you only die once and go to heaven or hell
		b)	That your soul repeatedly passes from one body to another until your good karma outweighs your bad karma
		c)	That when you're dead, you're dead and that is it
12.	Good and bad karma is inconsistent with New Age doctrines because:
		a)	The New Age says there is no such thing as right or wrong so how can you have good and bad karma
		b)	The New Age Movement says we are not to judge but someone or something is judging what is good and bad karma
		c)	None of the above
13.	The New Age definition of God is:
		a)	That He is Yahweh, the God of the Bible
		b)	He is a living person but we don't know where he is
		c)	He is a force or energy field within all of creation
14.	The New Age belief is that Jesus Christ of Nazareth:
		a)	Never lived
		b)	Lived but was just a man
		c)	Was a spirit or master guide that left the spiritual realm to take on the role of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be the spiritual leader for the Age of Pisces
15.	When one is successful at tapping into their consciousness and becoming one with God this is called:
		a)	Enlightenment
		b)	God consciousness
		c)	God realization
		d)	Self realization
		e)	Illumination
		f)	Cosmic consciousness
		g)	Higher Self
16.	The New Age Movement proclaims:
		a)	There is no heaven or hell
		b)	All religions are one
		c)	God is everything and everything is God
		d)	We are all God
		e)	All is one
17.	The term New Age is derived from the belief:
		a)	That we are entering the age of the Pisces
		b)	We are entering the age of Aquarius or the age of new beginnings
		c)	We are entering the age of the Zodiac or Age of new beginnings
18.	The New Age is thought to be a time when humanity will:
		a)	Reach a higher level of consciousness
		b)	Tap into their consciousness and discover their unlimited potential by discovering the God that resides within them as them
		c)	Begin to live by a belief in moral absolutes

 

Worksheet #2 Type: Audio Answers for Skeptics By: Dr. Norm Geisler

1.	Most Christians are too lazy to get answers for difficult Bible questions so they:
		a)	Stop going to church
		b)	Stop witnessing
		c)	Stop talking to people
2.	Colossians 4:6 tells believers to let our speech be always with grace and seasoned with salt that you may:
		a)	Be politically correct
		b)	Be popular
		c)	Know how you should answer all men
3.	I Peter 3:15 commands us to be able to:
		a)	Give a reason for going to church on Sunday
		b)	Give a reason for attending a Christian conference
		c)	Give a reason for the hope that is in you
4.	Jude 3 tells us that Christians are to:
		a)	Contend for the faith
		b)	Be rude when we approach a skeptic
		c)	Ignore the skeptic and critic because they are a lost cause
5.	In 2 Corinthians 10:5 Paul said we are to destroy every:
		a)	Person that does not agree with Christianity
		b)	Argument raised up against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
		c)	Opportunity that comes along to share truth with the skeptic or critic
6.	An atheist says:
		a)	I know there is a God
		b)	I know there are many Gods
		c)	I know there is not a God
7.	An agnostic says:
		a)	I know there is a God
		b)	I don't know if there is a God
		c)	I know there are many gods
8.	Every form of unbelief involves:
		a)	Self-defeating statements
		b)	Clear reasoning
		c)	Logical conclusions
9.	Which three statements are examples of self-defeating statements?
		a)	I know for sure that I can know truth
		b)	I know for sure that I can't know anything for sure
		c)	Doubt everything but don't doubt skepticism
		d)	I absolutely do not believe in absolute truth
10.	The skeptic and critic cannot say there is no such thing as absolute truth without:
		a)	Routinely making self-defeating statements
		b)	Offering you a truth they believe exists
		c)	Having an absolute in which they do believe
11.	People that accept today's postmodern worldview are basing their beliefs on:
		a)	Facts
		b)	Sound reasoning
		c)	Feelings
12.	Martin Luther said: "Feelings come and feelings go and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God
		a)	Everything else is worth believing
		b)	Nothing else is worth believing
		c)	Which is totally based on individual interpretation
13.	If our faith is not based on fact it is no better than any other religion because our faith:
		a)	Has to be a tolerant faith that accepts all other religions
		b)	Can not say that it is the only way without being offensive
		c)	Is no stronger than the object in which we have faith
14.	How do we handle people who are opposed to what we believe?
		a)	We tell them how stupid they are for rejecting truth
		b)	We take what they believe and show them it is self-defeating
		c)	We just ignore them and hope they go away
15.	Today's skeptics pretend there are no absolutes yet preach:
		a)	Moral absolutes
		b)	Politically correct absolutes
		c)	Biblical truth
16.	Choose from the following list four Bible verses that command Christians to be intelligent:
		a)	Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind
		b)	Early to bed, early to rise makes a young man healthy, wealthy and wise
		c)	Come now let us reason together
		d)	The doors of wisdom are never shut
		e)	There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies
		f)	Whatever things are good think on these things
		g)	Bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ
17.	What is wrong with the relativist?
		a)	They are sure of their relativism
		b)	They are sure of moral absolutes
		c)	They believe in right and wrong
18.	What is wrong with agnosticism?
		a)	They know there are absolutes
		b)	They know for sure that you can not know anything for sure
		c)	They believe that truth can be known
19.	Why should we ask those that say there is no such thing as absolutes if anything is wrong anywhere?
		a)	Because if anything is right anywhere there is not a God
		b)	Because if anything is wrong anywhere there is a God
		c)	Because if everything is relative everywhere it is all relative no matter what you think
20.	If there is just one absolute moral law there has to be:
		a)	Moral relativism
		b)	Situational ethics
		c)	A moral law giver
21.	You cannot have a moral prescription without a:
		a)	Moral prescriber
		b)	Moral relativist
		c)	Moral dilemma
22.	You cannot have legislation without:
		a)	Judges
		b)	Secretaries
		c)	A legislature
23.	It is undeniable that:
		a)	Moral relativism is a reality
		b)	There is no such thing as absolute truth
		c)	There are moral absolutes
24.	Romans 2:12-15 tells us:
		a)	Truth is up to each individual
		b)	There is no moral law
		c)	There is a moral law and a moral law giver
25.	How do we know what justice is unless there is:
		a)	Moral relativism
		b)	Situational ethics
		c)	Injustice
26.	How do we know there is evil unless we know:
		a)	What is good
		b)	What is politically correct
		c)	What is accepted by the culture at large
27.	How do we know something is wrong unless we know what is:
		a)	Relative
		b)	Right
		c)	Left
28.	Christians should be ready to show the skeptic that their beliefs:
		a)	Are good for their self-esteem
		b)	Are selfish
		c)	Are self-defeating
29.	Unbelief is:
		a)	Unreasonable
		b)	Reasonable
		c)	Reliable
30.	The reasons against reason are:
		a)	Reasonable
		b)	Unreasonable
		c)	Reliable
31.	Apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith and Christians are to use apologetics to:
		a)	Confuse the skeptic
		b)	Apologize to the skeptic
		c)	Reach the skeptic
32.	We need to use the moral law to help the skeptic:
		a)	Understand there is a moral law giver
		b)	Understand the moral law giver created the universe
		c)	Understand there is absolute truth
		d)	Understand there is only one God
33.	If there is a moral law giver then:
		a)	Pantheism is false
		b)	Atheism is false
		c)	Theism is true
		d)	Agnosticism is true
		e)	Relativism is true
34.	In order to prove the worldview of pantheism and atheism is false, what did the Apostle Paul present on Mars hill?
		a)	The evidence for the resurrection
		b)	The evidence for a creator and the moral law giver
		c)	The evidence for the flood
35.	Preaching theism in a pantheistic and atheistic world falls on deaf ears unless:
		a)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is false
		b)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is true
		c)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is relative
36.	Which of the following is a more rational worldview?
		a)	Nothing made everything out of nothing
		b)	Something created everything out of nothing
		c)	Life came from none life and created life
37.	Instantly turning water into wine is easy if:
		a)	You own a winery
		b)	You created nothing
		c)	You created the water
38.	Once someone admits there is a theistic God:
		a)	They should be checked into a mental ward
		b)	Christianity is reasonable
		c)	They have become intolerant

 

Worksheet #3 Type: Test Test #6

1.	Instantly turning water into wine is easy if:
		a)	You own a winery
		b)	You created nothing
		c)	You created the water
2.	Once someone admits there is a theistic God:
		a)	They should be checked into a mental ward
		b)	Christianity is reasonable
		c)	They have become intolerant
3.	Many Americans knowingly and unknowingly:
		a)	Are owed a tax refund
		b)	Have a New Age view and definition of God
		c)	Need to have the oil in their car changed
4.	The New Age Movement is also known as:
		a)	Secular Humanism
		b)	The religion of the sixties
		c)	Cosmic Humanism
5.	The main goal of the New Age movement is:
		a)	To be reincarnated into a less desirable state
		b)	To learn what is right and wrong
		c)	To define yourself
6.	The difference between Secular Humanism and Cosmic Humanism is:
		a)	One word
		b)	One believes in moral absolutes and the other does not
		c)	Secular Humanism is not a religion and Cosmic humanism is a religion
		d)	Secular Humanism proclaims there is no spiritual or supernatural world while Cosmic Humanism believes in the spiritual and supernatural world
7.	Christianity has a theistic worldview which means:
		a)	There are many Gods
		b)	There is no God
		c)	There is only one God
8.	The reasons against reason are:
		a)	Reasonable
		b)	Unreasonable
		c)	Reliable
9.	Apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith and Christians are to use apologetics to:
		a)	Confuse the skeptic
		b)	Apologize to the skeptic
		c)	Reach the skeptic
10.	Preaching theism in a pantheistic and atheistic world falls on deaf ears unless:
		a)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is false
		b)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is true
		c)	We show the atheist and agnostic their worldview is relative
11.	Which of the following is a more rational worldview?
		a)	Nothing made everything out of nothing
		b)	Something created everything out of nothing
		c)	Life came from non-life and created life
12.	The New Age is:
		a)	A Cult
		b)	Part of the occult
		c)	A sect
13.	The belief that everything is God and God is everything is called:
		a)	Theism
		b)	Atheism
		c)	Relativism
		d)	Humanism
		e)	Pantheism
14.	The only absolute in the New Age Movement is:
		a)	What is right and wrong
		b)	Man's own reasoning, free will, desires, and dreams
		c)	Heaven and Hell
15.	The New Age Movement says you should not set limits on:
		a)	Your sleep
		b)	Your diet
		c)	Your sexual energy
16.	The spirit and master guides the New Age consult with are:
		a)	Figments of their imagination
		b)	People who have actually died that talk to them
		c)	Demons
17.	Reincarnation is the belief:
		a)	That you only die once and go to heaven or hell
		b)	That your soul repeatedly passes from one body to another until your good karma outweighs your bad karma
		c)	That when you're dead; you're dead and that is it
18.	Good and bad karma is inconsistent with New Age doctrines because:
		a)	The New Age says there is no such thing as right or wrong so how can you have good and bad karma
		b)	The New Age Movement says we are not to judge but someone or something is judging what is good and bad karma
		c)	None of the above
19.	The New Age definition of God is:
		a)	That He is Yahweh, the God of the Bible
		b)	He is a living person but we don't know where he is
		c)	He is a force or energy field within all of creation
20.	The New Age belief is that Jesus Christ of Nazareth:
		a)	Never lived
		b)	Lived but was just a man
		c)	Was a spirit or master guide that left the spiritual realm to take on the role of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to be the spiritual leader for the Age of Pisces
21.	When one is successful at tapping into their consciousness and becoming one with God this is called:
		a)	Enlightenment
		b)	God consciousness
		c)	God realization
		d)	Self realization
		e)	Illumination
		f)	Cosmic consciousness
		g)	Higher Self
22.	The New Age Movement proclaims:
		a)	There is no heaven or hell
		b)	All religions are one
		c)	God is everything and everything is God
		d)	We are all God
		e)	All is one
23.	The term New Age is derived from the belief:
		a)	That we are entering the age of the Pisces
		b)	We are entering the age of Aquarius or the age of new beginnings
		c)	We are entering the age of the Zodiac or age of new beginnings
24.	The New Age is thought to be a time when humanity will:
		a)	Reach a higher level of consciousness
		b)	Tap into their consciousness and discover their unlimited potential by discovering the God that resides within them as them
		c)	Begin to live by a belief in moral absolutes
25.	Most Christians are too lazy to get answers for difficult Bible questions so they:
		a)	Stop going to church
		b)	Stop witnessing
		c)	Stop talking to people
26.	Colossians 4:6 tells believers to let our speech be always with grace and seasoned with salt that you may:
		a)	Be politically correct
		b)	Be popular
		c)	Know how you should answer all men
27.	I Peter 3:15 commands us to be able to:
		a)	Give a reason for going to church on Sunday
		b)	Give a reason for attending a Christian conference
		c)	Give a reason for the hope that is in you
28.	Jude 3 tells us that Christians are to:
		a)	Contend for the faith
		b)	Be rude when we approach a skeptic
		c)	Ignore the skeptic and critic because they are a lost cause
29.	In 2 Corinthians 10:5, Paul said we are to destroy every:
		a)	Person that does not agree with Christianity
		b)	Argument raised up against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
		c)	Opportunity that comes along to share truth with the skeptic or critic
30.	We need to use the moral law to help the skeptic:
		a)	Understand there is a moral law giver
		b)	Understand the moral law giver created the universe
		c)	Understand there is absolute truth
		d)	Understand there is only one God
31.	If there is a moral law giver then:
		a)	Pantheism is false
		b)	Atheism is false
		c)	Theism is true
		d)	Agnosticism is true
		e)	Relativism is true
32.	In order to prove the worldview of pantheism and atheism is false, what did the Apostle Paul present on Mars hill?
		a)	The evidence for the resurrection
		b)	The evidence for a creator and the moral law giver
		c)	The evidence for the flood
33.	An atheist says:
		a)	I know there is a God
		b)	I know there are many Gods
		c)	I know there is not a God
34.	An agnostic says:
		a)	I know there is a God
		b)	I don't know if there is a God
		c)	I know there are many gods
35.	Every form of unbelief involves:
		a)	Self-defeating statements
		b)	Clear reasoning
		c)	Logical conclusions
36.	Which three statements are examples of self-defeating statements?
		a)	I know for sure that I can know truth
		b)	I know for sure that I can't know anything for sure
		c)	Doubt everything but skepticism
		d)	I absolutely do not believe in absolute truth
37.	The skeptic and critic cannot say there is no such thing as absolute truth without:
		a)	Routinely making self-defeating statements
		b)	Offering you a truth they believe exists
		c)	Having an absolute in which they do believe
38.	People that accept today's postmodern worldview are basing their beliefs on:
		a)	Facts
		b)	Sound reasoning
		c)	Feelings
39.	Martin Luther said: "Feelings come and feelings go and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God
		a)	Everything else is worth believing"
		b)	Nothing else is worth believing"
		c)	Which is totally based on individual interpretation"
40.	If our faith is not based on fact it is no better than any other religion because our faith:
		a)	Has to be a tolerant faith that accepts all other religions
		b)	Can not say that it is the only way without being offensive
		c)	Is no stronger than the object in which we have faith
41.	How do we handle people who are opposed to what we believe?
		a)	We tell them how stupid they are for rejecting truth
		b)	We take what they believe and show them it is self-defeating
		c)	We just ignore them and hope they go away
42.	Today's skeptics pretend there are no absolutes yet preach:
		a)	Moral absolutes
		b)	Politically correct absolutes
		c)	Biblical truth
43.	Choose four Bible verses from the following list that command Christians to be intelligent:
		a)	Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind
		b)	Early to bed, early to rise makes a young man healthy, wealthy and wise
		c)	Come now let us reason together
		d)	The doors of wisdom are never shut
		e)	There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies
		f)	Whatever things are good think on these things
		g)	Bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ
44.	What is wrong with the relativist?
		a)	They are sure of their relativism
		b)	They are sure of moral absolutes
		c)	They believe in right and wrong
45.	What is wrong with agnosticism?
		a)	They know there are absolutes
		b)	They know for sure that you can not know anything for sure
		c)	They believe that truth can be known
46.	Why should we ask those that say there is no such thing as absolutes if anything is wrong anywhere?
		a)	Because if anything is right anywhere, there is not a God
		b)	Because if anything is wrong anywhere, there is a God
		c)	Because if everything is relative everywhere it is all relative no matter what you think
47.	If there is just one absolute moral law there has to be:
		a)	Moral relativism
		b)	Situational ethics
		c)	A moral law giver
48.	You cannot have a moral prescription without a:
		a)	Moral prescriber
		b)	Moral relativist
		c)	Moral dilemma
49.	You cannot have legislation without:
		a)	Judges
		b)	Secretaries
		c)	A legislature
50.	It is undeniable that:
		a)	Moral relativism is a reality
		b)	There is no such thing as absolute truth
		c)	There are moral absolutes
51.	Romans 2:12-15 tells us:
		a)	Truth is up to each individual
		b)	There is no moral law
		c)	There is a moral law and a moral law giver
52.	How do we know what justice is unless there is:
		a)	Moral relativism
		b)	Situational ethics
		c)	Injustice
53.	How do we know there is evil unless we know:
		a)	What is good
		b)	What is politically correct
		c)	What is accepted by the culture at large
54.	How do we know something is wrong unless we know what is:
		a)	Relative
		b)	Right
		c)	Left
55.	Christians should be ready to show the skeptic that their beliefs:
		a)	Are good for their self-esteem
		b)	Are selfish
		c)	Are self-defeating
56.	Unbelief is:
		a)	Unreasonable
		b)	Reasonable
		c)	Reliable