Use this week’s textbook reading assignment to match the following terms with their definitions.
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A composite of your beliefs about human origin (where we came from), human nature (what makes us human), human purpose (why we are here), and human destiny (where we are going).
Someone who is aware of and content to live with an inconsistency between the belief system he or she professes and the one he or she practices
Someone who does not know that such an inconsistency exists because he or she chooses to disbelieve in its existence, even though this person has reason for believing that it does exist.
Someone who does not know that such an inconsistency exists because he or she has no reason to know it exists.
A person’s history of interactions with people whose input helps to shape the way he or she sees and acts toward the world.
A truth standard which holds that a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it promotes the greatest good not for the individual, but for humanity as a whole.
A truth standard which holds that a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it simply “works” for the person who holds it, regardless of whether it logically consists with anyone else’s experiences and standards.
Systems of belief that people develop on their own, primarily in response to what human standards have taught them to deem believable or acceptable.
Recognizes that God, the timeless, changeless source and sustainer of the universe and the source of all knowledge, discloses otherwise indiscernible foundational truths through Scripture, and that these otherwise hidden disclosures rightly frame and give direction to human questions to make sense of anything, including communication.
A truth standard which holds that a belief, feeling, or behavior is unacceptable if it is illogical or if it is at odds with what common human observations tell us is true
