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    This document summarizes six different worldviews - monotheism, deism, pantheism, polytheism/spiritism/animism, naturalism, and postmodernism. It outlines some of the key religious issues that arise from each worldview, such as whether they acknowledge God's existence and nature, how they view revelation, morality, and truth. The document argues that worldviews that deny God's existence, nature, or glory tend to be "closed systems" that lack accountability to an external moral authority.

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    This document summarizes six different worldviews - monotheism, deism, pantheism, polytheism/spiritism/animism, naturalism, and postmodernism. It outlines some of the key religious issues that arise from each worldview, such as whether they acknowledge God's existence and nature, how they view revelation, morality, and truth. The document argues that worldviews that deny God's existence, nature, or glory tend to be "closed systems" that lack accountability to an external moral authority.

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    Six Worldviews and Their Attendant Religious Issues

    Monotheism Naturalism Pantheism


    ú Deism ü
    God/god god/gods
    ------------ creation / cosmos cosmos =
    creation cosmos
    Open System: Closed System: Closed System:
    affirms His existence / denies His existence denies God His nature
    acknowledges His (material monism) and status – robs Him
    “otherliness” (dualism: spir./mat.) of the glory due Him
    All that is not this God is His creation (spiritual monism)
    Christianity is incarnational, Personal, triune monotheism (unity emphasis: all is one)

    Polytheism / Spiritism / Animism ü Postmodernism


    creation / cosmos (pantheism variant with a diversity emphasis)

    good or evil spirit beings everything is a


    involved in events social construction
    (dualism: mat./spir.) ú ü
    Closed Systems:
    they either deny God’s existence, His nature or status & rob Him of His glory
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    Issue 1 Confusing the distinction between the Creator and the creature
    Issue 2 Misunderstanding the inherently sinful nature of man and the
    grounding point of redemption (God’s Holiness): cf. sin w/ sins
    Issue 3 External sins (acts) vs. internal sin (nature) clean: out > in or v.v.?
    Issue 4 Revelation: Origin (Creator / creature)? Access (Open / Secret)?
    Issue 5 A personal and knowable Deity necessitates moral accountability
    versus an impersonal unknowable deity (no accountability)
    Issue 6 Submitting to the righteousness that comes from God versus
    establishing one’s own righteousness (faith versus works)
    Issue 7 Truly knowing God brings true worship – versus ‘will’ worship
    Issue 8 Absolute truth, meaning and objective reality versus a
    fickle relativism, loss of meaning and subjective reality
    Issue 9 Possessing the right ultimate object of faith
    Issue 10 Litmus test for veracity: Who gets the glory? (John 7:17)
    Issue 11 Encountering the Living Word versus ritual observance
    Issue 12 Resting in a finished work, being assured & being led – vs. not...
    Issue 13 Blame-shifting & self-justification (demonize “them” / deify “us”)
    Issue 14 Competitive religion: waging spiritual warfare the world’s way
    Issue 15 Revisionism: biased, relativistically re-casting (historical) reality
    Issue 16 Captive to the Creator or captive to a creature(-ly construct)?

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