// question: 0 name: switch category to $course$/Default for Worldview 101 $CATEGORY: $course$/Default for Worldview 101 // question: 5 name: 1. ::1.::[html]

Human beings are much more likely to ...

{ ~Do the right thing under the most difficult circumstances#Instances of heroic behavior under difficult circumstances stand out precisely because they are rare. =Do the wrong thing under the most favorable conditions#This is a good working definition of "sinful."  People are not inherently good or evi; they are inherently sinful; i.e., inclined to do the wrong thing under the best of circumstances. } // question: 14 name: 10. ::10.::[html]

The origin of the cosmos is ...

{ ~Material# =Spiritual# ~Both material and spiritual# } // question: 15 name: 11. ::11.::[html]

The cosmos is ...

{ =Finite# ~Infinite# } // question: 16 name: 12. ::12.::[html]

The cosmos

{ =Has a beginning and an end# ~Is eternal# } // question: 17 name: 13. ::13.::[html]

The material cosmos is { ~Good# ~Evil# ~Neither good nor evil# =Good but marred by evil# } // question: 18 name: 14. ::14.::[html]

The cosmos by nature is opposed to and incompatible with the world of spirit.

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 19 name: 15. ::15.::[html]

The cosmos is explainable entirely from within the cosmos.

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 20 name: 16. ::16.::[html]

The cosmos is ...

{ =Rational and understandable# ~Irrational and chaotic# } // question: 21 name: 17. ::17.::[html]

The cosmos exists ...

{ =As a matter of divine choice# ~As a matter of necessity# } // question: 22 name: 18. ::18.::[html]

Humans have a mandate to rule over nature.

{ =True# ~False# } // question: 23 name: 19. ::19.::[html]

Death is ...

{ ~A good thing# =A bad thing# ~Neither good nor bad# } // question: 6 name: 2. ::2.::[html]

Human free will is ...

{ ~Unlimited =Constrained by human nature ~An illusion } // question: 24 name: 20. ::20.::[html]

Death leads to { ~Reincarnation# =Judgment# ~Heaven for all# } // question: 25 name: 21. ::21.::[html]

Death means { ~Disembodiment# =Re-embodiment# ~Annihilation# } // question: 26 name: 22. ::22.::[html]

The meaning of a fact depends upon { ~Science# =Mind# ~Feelings# } // question: 27 name: 23. ::23.::[html]

All claims to knowledge require { ~Complete certainty# ~Absolute objectivity# =An appeal to authority# } // question: 28 name: 24. ::24.::[html]

The truth of a fact depends upon its { =Existence# ~Meaning# ~Usefulness# } // question: 29 name: 25. ::25.::[html]

The truth of a value-judgment depends upon { =The authority of the one making it# ~The consent of listeners# ~Its usefulness# } // question: 30 name: 26. ::26.::[html]

The deep structures of the human mind equip people with a knowledge of right and wrong they simply cannot "not know."

{ =True ~False } // question: 31 name: 27. ::27.::[html]

Spiritual truth is grounded in { ~Facts# =Value judgments# ~Mystical experiences# } // question: 32 name: 28. ::28.::[html]

Human perceptions of reality are ...

{ =Sufficiently trustworthy to render people morally accountable# ~So defective as to make any claim to real knowledge untenable# } // question: 33 name: 29. ::29.::[html]

God is { =Personal# ~Impersonal# } // question: 7 name: 3 ::3::[html]

The human spirit ...

{ ~Has a physical explanation =Has a supernatural origin } // question: 34 name: 30. ::30.::[html]

God is { ~Transcendent (beyond the cosmos)# ~Immanent (present within the cosmos)# =Both immanent and transcendent# ~Nonexistent (neither immanent nor transcendent)# } // question: 35 name: 31. ::31.::[html]

God and the cosmos are ...

{ ~One# =Distinct# } // question: 36 name: 32. ::32.::[html]

History is { =Linear (always going forward)# ~Cyclical (always returning to where it has been before)# } // question: 37 name: 33. ::33.::[html]

History has a definite course, a definite beginning, and a definite end.

{ =True# ~False# } // question: 38 name: 34. ::34.::[html]

History is finite.

{ =True# ~False# } // question: 39 name: 35. ::35.::[html]

History is explainable entirely from within history.

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 40 name: 36. ::36.::[html]

Good and evil are ...

{ ~Strictly human calculations# =Relative to the nature of God# ~Grounded in moral absolutes that never change# } // question: 41 name: 37. ::37.::[html]

Evil, pain, and suffering exist because God is ...

{ ~Sadistic# ~Indifferent# ~Impotent# =Patient# } // question: 42 name: 38. ::38.::[html]

Evil is best described as that which ...

{ =Opposes God's purposes# ~Opposes human purposes# } // question: 8 name: 4. ::4.::[html]

The ultimate destiny of every human being is ...

{ ~Determined by fate# ~Exactly the same# =A matter of grace and faith# } // question: 9 name: 5. ::5.::[html]

The individual self is primarily a creation of ...

{ ~The individual# =Society# } // question: 10 name: 6. ::6.::[html]

The nature of humanity is not fixed and can be changed.

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 11 name: 7. ::7.::[html]

Every human being is of infinite worth

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 12 name: 8. ::8.::[html]

The human predicament is primarily that of a spirit being trapped in a material body.

{ ~True# =False# } // question: 13 name: 9. ::9.::[html]

The substance of the cosmos is ...

{ ~Matter# ~Spirit# =Both matter and spirit# }