THE RULES!!

1. THE RULES!! • Hands up to speak • Remain in seat • Follow all instructions

2. WHAT IS TRUTHOLOGY?? • A series of lessons which allow you to explore your deepest questions such as… • What happens when we die? • Does God exist? • Was Jesus God? • To understand the Truth Claims of Jesus and other religious/non-religious leaders as you consider “What is the real TRUTH?”.

3. What else do we have to offer? • A weekly lunch time club where you can have an opportunity to further wrestle with what we have covered in lessons. • A website where you can search/question/debate www.truthology.co.uk

5. Lesson 1 – What is the TRUTH? Objectives: • Become aware of your own beliefs about truth and reality • Understand why the pursuit of truth is important

7. Keywords • Worldview • Truth Claim

8. Brainstorm What is truth?

9. THE MATRIX • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8Zq_iWuFg

10. Questions • How do you know you are not in the matrix right now? • How would you live your life differently if you found out you were really in the matrix?

11. Lesson 1 – What is TRUTH? Objectives: • Become aware of your own beliefs about truth and reality • Understand why the pursuit of truth is important

12. Jesus is God God exists There is no truth Truth claim cards • Student A - Based on your beliefs, divide up the cards into a TRUE and FALSE pile • Student B - Question student A to discover where each belief comes from and separate the cards into different piles. E.g. From parents, from television, from pastor, from teachers. • SWAP and do the same • If finished…consider • How can we tell the difference between lies and truth? • How do you know that what you believe is really true?

13. Get out your traffic light cards Agree Disagree Not sure

14. The truth??

15. The truth??

16. The truth??

17. What can we learn? • Where do our beliefs come from? • Can we all be right? • What if some of us are wrong?

18. Lesson 1 – What is the TRUTH? Objectives: • Become aware of your own beliefs about truth and reality • Understand why the pursuit of truth is important

19. Why is pursuing truth important? • CASE STUDY - Jesus

20. What did Jesus say his purpose was? •  John 18:37 - "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.

21. What “Truth” did Jesus teach? HUMANS GOD stealing Pure and Holy Evil and Wicked lying hating lusting

22. What “Truth” did Jesus teach? loves Loving HUMANS GOD Just angry bullying lusting

23. What “Truth” did Jesus teach?

24. What “Truth” did Jesus teach? Anger towards bullying Anger towardsstealing Anger towards lying

25. What “Truth” did Jesus teach? CHOICE Acknowledge your guilt before God and turn away from your way of life to Jesus to save you. Don’t turn to Jesus for salvation Hell / eternity separated from God / God’s justice Heaven / relationship with God / forgiveness

26. So??? • Why is it important to pursue truth?

27. RECAP • All worldviews have their own truth claims • There are many different contradicting beliefs • Accepting or rejecting a religion’s truth claims could mean heaven or hell if the religion is teaching the truth

28. Next lesson… • Learn different ideas about moral truth and reality and identify problems with these ideas. • Consider what the conscience is and how it reacts to right and wrong actions. • Consider what true justice is

29. Homework • Go to the www.truthology.co.uk website to see what your homework is.