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Day 30 Consciousness, Freedom, Morality

Day 30 Consciousness, Freedom, Morality. Beginnings chap. 11,12. Definitions:. Consciousness : the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings . Freedom : the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

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Day 30 Consciousness, Freedom, Morality

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  1. Day 30 Consciousness, Freedom, Morality Beginnings chap. 11,12

  2. Definitions: Consciousness: the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings. Freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Morality: principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

  3. Why does it matter? • God started it then everything followed scientific ages and evolution…? • Does it matter if the rocks were deposited 1,000s or 1,000,000s of years ago? • View of earth history and our interpretation of the evidence is important because they impact Christian beliefs more than you may think!

  4. 3 models of the relationship between science and religion: • 1. Isolation: • Philosophy of naturalism dictates science must deny any explanations involving the supernatural. • Science and religion don’t influence each other. • There never was a perfect creation or a fall into sin that resulted in death/suffering, these are natural results of the evolution process period. • Scientists must not consider the hypothesis that God created life.

  5. 3 models of the relationship between science and religion: • 2. Parallel but Separate: • Accept both science and religion as sources of truth. Yet, still keep these 2 separate. • Science has room for the existence of God; but for practical reasons they don’t consider divine action as a possible explanation of any phenomenon. • Jesus our Saviour, evolution, God’s choice method of creation. =Theistic evolution: Bible only presents spiritual insights, but don’t take Genesis literally.

  6. Theistic Evolutionists Beliefs • Humans never lived as innocents in perfect paradise, never did they fall into sin. Pain and suffering are a natural evil (disease, hurricanes) and moral evil (murder, concentration camps) are a natural part of the evolutionary process—the creation process. • Darwinian mutations occur by chance for good or ill. • Natural selection process preserves mutations that are good… God produced conscious, thinking humans with free will through letting nature “make itself.” • Death and evil don’t result from any human action, there was no Fall because the fossil record gives evidence of disease, death, and predation long before humans evolved. • Conclusion: the redemptive work of Christ in saving us from the effects of sin is incorrect! But God didn’t let us just suffer along, hence Jesus suffered with us on the cross.

  7. Theistic Evolutionists Beliefs… The conclusions of Model 2 make sense provided its interpretation of the fossil record is correct. Problem… a god who has to depend on chance mutations, a god who doesn’t know how to make a brain that has free choice, is a god who is powerless and not worthy of our confidence.

  8. 3 models of the relationship between science and religion: • 3. Interaction: • Theology and science do differ in important ways, but there are reasons to trust that theology and faith can play a legitimate role in influencing science. • We start with knowing God as a personal Friend and by trusting His Word. • Then we use His Word (Bible) to assist us in our thinking, our interactions with scholars whose views differ. • Typically, when contradictions between faith and science arise (eg. Scientists say rock formation took millions of years, Bible gives a shorter period for earth history) the conflict challenges you to study both more carefully. • While studying the Bible and science we shouldn’t confuse the methods of approach. • Bible - sacred, historical context, prayerfully. • Science – observation, experiment, analysis to test hypotheses and make new ones.

  9. Bible vs Science • If we can’t rectify both then we need to take a second look at science (its always changing) and how it fits with the Bible. • Reason and intellect need to recognize God as ultimate authority. • Religion gives birth to ideas/hypothesis that stimulate scientific research, via scientific methods. • Divine interactions did happen with our universe and earth. • Science can’t study theological concepts such as the Great Controversy, plan of salvation, sin, free will.

  10. 2 Views for the Fossil Record… • Pg. 146 fig. 11.2 • God created all things good (instantaneously—a miracle) and evil is a result of sin. • Or Evil functions as a part of God’s plan for making new life forms, before humans existed. • Falling into sin has no meaning, so then Jesus saving us has no meaning and Bible is false! Problem with this view??!

  11. Interventionists… • What would happen if we had total proof of the Biblical Creations? • Do we know everything? • Then why do we fear contradictions between science and scripture? • Naturalism or Design…? • Microevolution and speciation…?! • Geologic column… not everything happened during the flood…?! • People who hold different views… friends or foes…?

  12. Homework… Watch videos and write 5-7 points for each… turnitin.com

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