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The document discusses four categories of reasons why people believe what they believe: 1. It encourages empathy and understanding of other perspectives. 2. It promotes effective communication and dialogue by understanding beliefs. 3. It facilitates personal growth and self-reflection by examining own opinions. 4. It enhances critical thinking by questioning reasoning behind perspectives. The document also discusses definitions for terms like apologist, law of noncontradiction, empiricism, empirical verifiability, induction, and deduction. It provides answers on how truth is known through reaching certainty, and how truths about God are known by seeking and meditating on his words.

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The document discusses four categories of reasons why people believe what they believe: 1. It encourages empathy and understanding of other perspectives. 2. It promotes effective communication and dialogue by understanding beliefs. 3. It facilitates personal growth and self-reflection by examining own opinions. 4. It enhances critical thinking by questioning reasoning behind perspectives. The document also discusses definitions for terms like apologist, law of noncontradiction, empiricism, empirical verifiability, induction, and deduction. It provides answers on how truth is known through reaching certainty, and how truths about God are known by seeking and meditating on his words.

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Assignment 1

A.List the four categories of reasons why people believe what they believe?

Ans. The four catergories of reasons why people believe what they believe are as given below:

1.Encourages empathy and understanding: Understanding why people believe what they believe
allows us to empathize with their perspectives and experiences. It helps us recognize that their beliefs
may be rooted in different cultural, social, or personal contexts, leading to a more compassionate and
open-minded approach towards others.

2. Promotes effective communication and dialogue: When we understand the reasons behind
someone beliefs, we can engage in more productive conversations and dialogue. It enables us to ask
meaningful questions, address concerns, and find common ground, fostering constructive
discussions and reducing conflicts.

3. Facilitates personal growth and self-reflection: By examining why people hold certain beliefs, we
can reflect on our own opinions and biases. This self-reflection helps us challenge our assumptions,
expand our knowledge, and develop a more nuanced understanding of complex issues.

4. Enhances critical thinking skills: Understanding why people believe what they believe encourages
critical thinking. It prompts us to question and evaluate the sources, evidence, and reasoning behind
different perspectives, leading to a more well-informed and balanced worldview.
B.Read the dialogue between Dr. James Sire and the students and summarize the
main points

Ans.The main point for us is that theism declares that God can and has
clearly communicated with us.If you believe god with your full heart he
will love you, show you path of success. Helps you to build faith and puts
away the negative thinking from your mind. God is with everyone at a
similar .Bible also shows that there is encarnation of lord jesus after
death just because to save our lives .
C.Write the definitions for these words found in your reading:
1.Apologist :
Apologist is someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something
that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism.
2.Law of Noncontradiction :
The law of non-contradiction is a rule of logic. It states that if something is true,
then the opposite of it is false. For example, if an animal is a cat, the same animal
cannot be not a cat. Or, stated in logic, if +p, then not -p, +p cannot be -p at the
same time and in the same sense.
3.Empiricism :
Empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or
justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience.
4.Empirical Verifiability :
Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability
criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine which asserts that a statement
is meaningful only if it is either empirically verifiable (i.e. confirmed through the
senses) or a truth of logic (e.g., tautologies).
5.Induction :
Induction is the process or action of bringing about or giving rise to something.

6.Deduction :
Deduction is the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or
principle.

D.How is truth known?


Ans.The one who gets the evidence. Finding the true is just reaching a level of
certainty when things become obvious. First there is twist of attention, then
guess, then belief, then knowledge. And knowledge remains true until something
else, something bigger comes in touch with it and transforms it into either
greater knowledge or sort of downgrades it to new guess.
E.How are truths about God known?
Ans.God is a God of truth. If you seek him in truth, meditate his words, he
will help you to understand the truth that can set you free. God already
knows about us he knows our hearts even the numbers of our hair he
knows us more than ourselves but God just want us to speak to him and
to tell him that we love him, he knows even before you speak. There are a
lot of Luke warm Christians who are ungrateful they forgot to thank God
for his kindness and mercy when they received the blessings. God wants
us to let him know that we are grateful for him he wants us to
acknowledge him. And of course he wants us to know him that he is our
Father who paid the price for our salvation.

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