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Countering Culture
Lesson #1

1. Civil War of Values, hearts and minds

2. a. People fail to see how their belief in God and the Bible interrelates with their personal, social,
and community lives, and b. People do not understand or act as if Christianity is a total world
and life view.\
3. a. It has resulted in the church withdrawing from areas considered to be secular, which b. has
resulted in a demise of morals, debasement of law and politics, undermining of educational
values, and corruption of media and pop culture.
4. Cultural Commission
5. Giving a general verbal reinforcement of something someone already believes without actually
providing any factual arguments or clearly delineated reasons.
6. Pagans
7. We share the common ground that we live in the same world and have come from the same
place. Many people also acknowledge that “there must be something more”, which is a common
ground because we know that there is something more than the natural world: God.
8. Emotionally, spiritually, academically
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How Should We Then Live?
Chapter 1

1. thought
2. Presuppositions are beliefs and views held by an individual through which he or she approaches
other issues and see the rest of the world. A person's presuppositions are based in what he or she
believes about truth and reality. They are the basic beliefs and opinions that someone possesses
without directly realizing that he or she possesses them, and they color the way that person
views the rest of the world.
3. The philosophic, the scientific, and the religious
4. The scientific. However, Schaeffer says, “The direction in which science will move is set by the
philosophic world view of the scientists”, so the philosophic line has an effect on science as
well.
5. We can learn about the efficiency and outcome of ideas by studying the past and the way
people's ideas affected their societies, and Rome is the direct ancestor of modern Western
Civilization
6. c
7. authoritarian
8. syncretism
9. time for pressures to mount
10. Christians were not martyred because they believed in Jesus; they were martyred because they
worshiped Christ exclusively and refused to worship Caesar, becoming rebels.
11. Violence; senses
12. The Romans' apathy resulted in a decline in the quality of their art, a poor economy, an increase
in the authoritarian government, and a consequential loss of freedoms.
13. It's lack of a “sufficient inward base”; a failure to act on a consistent worldview and good
government system of Godly morals.