Developing A Biblical World View

ANSWERS TO SELF-TESTS

CHAPTER ONE:

1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

2. The one true God who is revealed in the Holy Bible.

3. Two reasons for the different stories of creation: Because people did not have access to the true facts about creation and because they chose not to believe the true story of creation when they heard it.

4. Some people do not accept the true facts of creation because if they do, they must acknowledge there is a God. If they accept the fact there is a God then they must acknowledge His sovereign rule over them. They must also believe His Word and do something about their evil lifestyle. Because people do not want to change their way of life they choose to deny the Biblical account of creation and the existence of God.

5. When we speak of developing a Biblical world view, it means we are basing our understanding of the world on what is revealed by God in His written Word, the Bible.

6. For a summary of God's creative acts check the list provided in Chapter One.

7. Man is different from all other creatures made by God because he is created in God's image and has an eternal soul and spirit. He has the capacity to communicate with and relate to God.

8. See the summary of the "fall of man" provided in Chapter One.

9. See the results of the "fall of man" provided in Chapter One.

10. Genesis 3:15

11. The natural world and the spiritual world.

CHAPTER TWO:

1. And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (Genesis 11:6-7)