Student Forum
Student Forum
This forum is a platform where students can respectfully converse with each other as if they were sitting in a classroom, or around a table in a cafe. We offer some possible topics below. You can raise other issues as well, but they should be related to the course. Spend time reading the contributions of other students and responding to them also.
Warning: If a student is participating in a disrespectful way, he will be removed from the forum.
NOTE: Thirdmill is careful to avoid expressing politically partisan views. As students interact with each other and with the facilitator, we ask that you avoid discussing political parties or current political figures.
Suggested questions for discussion:
GENERAL
1. What has been especially helpful for you in this course? Why was it significant for you?
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
2. What is your view of the proper relationship between Christians and society? Explain why.
3. Select one of the non-Christian worldviews presented in chapter 4 of Intellectual Integrity and explain how you would dialogue with a person who holds that view in order to present and defend the Christian worldview.
4. In what way and in what circumstances do you think the government should become involved in education, medical care, social media, business, or _____? (Select an area and give examples of your guidelines.)
5. What guidelines would you suggest for a good economic system in your country? Explain and defend your view.
6. What is your view of harmonizing the biblical account of creation with the apparent old age of the earth? Explain and defend your view.
7. Select either a painting or a song from the following options and evaluate it, using the criteria of Francis Schaeffer. Click on the link to see a picture of the painting or to listen to the song.
The options are:
Paintings:
a) Pablo Picasso, Guernica
b) Salvador Dalí, The Enigma of Hitler
c) Eugene Burnand, Peter and John Running to the Tomb
d) Óscar Domínguez, The Steamroller and the Rose
Songs:
a) Harry Styles, Sign of the Times
b) Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed
c) U2- Bono, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
d) Laurel Daigle, You Say
e) Beethoven: Sinfonía 7, movimiento 2 (WDR Funkhausorchester, Josep Vicent, conductor)
APOLOGETICS
8. What is the most difficult question have you been asked about your faith? How did you answer? How would you answer now, after studying this course?
9. What argument has helped you most from among the apologists studied in chapters 5 and 6 of The Certainty of the Faith?
10. Choose one of the six difficult questions dealt with in this course and explain how you would answer it.
11. Why is it important for to know that unbelievers know in their hearts that God exists and they have in their hearts a conscience of good and evil? How does this help us share the gospel and defend our faith?