Christian Living Handbook

Year 9

Mr Schepemaker

2016

Name: _________________________________________

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Introduction

Teacher Introduction- My Family - My Beliefs

Ice Breaker Game

Question Roulette:

To play this game you need to form two equal circles, one inside the other. Set the circles up so one person from each circle is physically standing face to face with one member from the other circle.

A random number is called (or rolled on a die) and the circles must rotate in opposite directions that same number of people. At that point the people will be asked a question which they must share with the person in front of them.

Overview of the Term – Mind Map

Purpose of the Booklets- Challenge you to think critically about the world in which you live.- For you to gather evidence on which to make a decision about how you will live.

Assessment- Your involvement in the class.- Your appropriate completion of the booklet.- What you write in the booklet is not assessed as long as it evidences thoughtful

consideration.

Devices- Left in the allocated spot and not to be used unless specific permission is given

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The Need for God 2 -

Insignificance

The Puzzles of Life

The Need for God 1: The Matrix

The Story of Bruce – The Character and

Claims of Jesus

Introduction to Philosophy Kon Tiki – Faith

from Evidence

Grill-A-Christian

Evidence 2: Morals

Evidence 1: Photography Competition

PlaydohCelebration of

Death

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Lesson 1: Introduction to Philosophy

Before:

Has anyone ever lied really well to you? _____________ How did they make themselves believable?

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What is something that you are certain is true? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

How do you know that it is true? ___________________________________________________________________________

During:

Hasty _______________________ - A ______________ conclusion is made based on a ______ sample size.

____________ to Authority - Using an authority as evidence for your argument when the authority is _______________ an authority on the fact _____________ to the argument.

____________ Slope - When a relatively _______________ event is suggested to lead to a more significant event and so on, until some ultimate, significant event is reached.

False ___________ - Ascribing a cause where none exists in situations where ___________ fluctuations exist while failing to account for these natural fluctuations.

_________ Dilemma - When only two choices are presented yet ________ choices exist. Often characterised by the words “_____________ this or that”

______________ Reasoning - A type of reasoning where the _____________ is supported by the ___________, which is supported by the proposition.

________________ Fallacy - Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a _____________ or exaggerated version of the argument.

After:

Jesus make a claim that he was a supernatural being, who coming had been promised for thousands of years.

What evidence do you think he would need to provide to validate his claim? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson 2: Kon Tiki and Faith

Before:

Use your own words to describe what ‘faith’ is.

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What would you need in order to have faith in something? ___________________________________________________________________________

Do you think that faith must always be 100% certainty? ____________________

During:

What person in the film do you think demonstrates the greatest amount of faith? ___________________________________________________________________________

What person in the film do you think demonstrates the smallest amount of faith? ___________________________________________________________________________

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

How did the person with the greatest amount of faith demonstrate it? ___________________________________________________________________________

How did the person with the smallest amount of faith demonstrate it? ___________________________________________________________________________

What factor might have made them have different amounts of faith? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Considering what you have learned, rewrite your definition of faith if you think it could be improved on. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson 3: Pieces of the Puzzle

Before:

What do you think the purpose of living is? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

From what source(s) have you acquired this knowledge? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Consider the view opposite of what you think the purpose of life is and try to explain why they might think that. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

What major idea(s) do you find conflict with what you thought/think and what was explained in the lesson? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

For the information in the lesson, what do you believe did not have enough evidence or was not logically sound? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What evidence do you think would need to be supplied to either change your mind, or strengthen your current belief? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson 4 - The Need for God: The Matrix

Before:

Write down 2 recent events that you have heard about in the world that you would label as evil.

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What about the event makes you believe it was evil. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why do you think that over the past 6000 years, humans have continued to commit such acts? Why is it that we are not improving? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

Do you think the explanation for why humanity continues to commit evil is a reasonable one? ___________________________________________________________________________

What parts of the explanation do you believe might be flawed or has another explanation? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

You might have heard about how people need Jesus to save them from their sin. Ignore that answer and try and think of another way that people can be made free from doing evil things. What solution can you devise that will make humanity stop committing evil.

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Lesson 5 - The Need for God: Insignificance

Before:

Do you like yourself? ________________ What do you like about yourself?

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On a scale of 1-10, (1 = not very, 10 = highly) how important do you think are you? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

What evidence can you provide that supports your choice? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

During: What are the three reasons presented to illustrate humanities insignificance?

1. ______________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

Do you think the evidence was reasonable? _________________________________________________________________________

Which part/s of the argument do you have a problem with? _________________________________________________________________________

Excluding the existence of God, from what source might humanity gather this belief that they are significant? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson 6: Evidence 1 - Photography Competition

Before:

Why do you think that artists paint pictures, or sculpt statues? ___________________________________________________________________________

Consider the two pictures below. Describe the ARTIST based on their drawing.

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During:

What were the 3 evidences presented?

____________ are evidence.

The _______________________________ is evidence.

The existence of ________________

What is the probability of life as we have it on this earth in the universe that we exist in?

“Less than ______ chance in 10 ______ (million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion) exists that even one such life-support body would occur anywhere in the universe without invoking divine miracles.”

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

What other possibility is there that would make sense of how this world exists at the advanced level that it is? _________________________________________________

Is it the most probable explanation though? _________________________________

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Lesson 7: Evidence 2 - Morals

Before:

1. Is there such a thing as right and wrong? _________________________________2. What evidence can you use to defend your response?

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During:

Ethics

1. Ethics - Moral __________________ that govern a person’s ______________ or ____________.

2. Is there such a thing as right and wrong? _________________________________

3. What evidence can you use to defend your response?

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Scenarios1. Heinz’s Dilemma

a. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? _____________

b. Why or why not?

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2. The Carriage Problema. Option 1: Do nothing, and the carriage will kill the five people on the main track. b. Option 2: Pull the lever, diverting the carriage onto the side track where it will kill

one person. c. Why did you choose that option?

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3. The Transplant Problem

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a. What should the surgeon do?

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b. Why do you think that? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Would you eat animal meat? _____________________5. Would you eat _______________ meat? _____________

a. Why or Why not?

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6. If you were able to travel back in time, would you ________________________________ before he committed his atrocities?

Objective vs Subjective Morality1. Objective means that it _______________________________________ to the mind.2. Subjective means it is _________________ by ______________ feelings or opinions.3. “______________ does not cease to be wrong because the ________________ share in it.”

– Leo Tolstoy

No God vs God

1. No God – There is _______________________________, because our thinking is controlled by our DNA and ________________ chemical reactions in our brain.

2. God View – There is _____________________________, because we were _________________ by God to be able to logically recognise this.

The moral argument for God

1. If God does not exist, __________________________________________

2. Objective moral values _______________

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3. Therefore, _____________________

After:

Reflect on your previous thoughts and compare them to the lesson.

What objections do you have to the evidence presented? __________________________________________________________________________

What other explanation might be used to explain where morals come from? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What problems does that explanation have? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Grill – A – Christian Questions

1. Why do …

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2. Why does God ____________________

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3. If God is_____________ then why ______________________

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4. __________________________________________________

Teacher FeedbackIf ‘’1 is the VERY LOW and ‘10’ is VERY HIGH. Rate the following aspects of the course.

1. How much you enjoyed the lesson introduction activities.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Which was your favourite activity? _________________________

2. How much you learned about our topics

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Which was your favourite lesson? _________________________

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3. Any other feedback? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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