Is the Bible True?
Do All Roads Lead to Heaven?
The God Questions
Study Questions
Sunday November 15, 2015
Getting Started
1. What insight, principle, or observation from this week’s message
did you find to be most helpful, eye-opening or troubling?
Explain.
2. What might be some reason that the belief that “All Religions
Lead to Heaven” would be popular in our world today?
3. Pastor shared how there are Seven Major World Views. What
stood out to you about his presentation of these different world
views?
4. World views do make a difference. Pastor reviewed three. How
might the character of God (i.e. Love, Grace, or Justice) be
viewed differently?
5. The Flow Chart of World views shows that only one view can be
true. How does this chart show that the different world view are
mutually exclusive?
Seven Major World Views
1. Theism– an infinite God beyond and in the universe
2. Atheism— god does not exist beyond or in the universe
3. Pantheism– god is the universe
4. Panentheism– god is in the universe and beyond the universe
5. Deism– god is beyond the universe, not in it
6. Finite Godism– a finite god is beyond and in the universe
7. Polytheism– there are two or more finite gods in the universe
Does World View Really Matter?
Death-
6. What stands out about Jesus statement in John 14:6? How is an
absolute statement viewed like that today?
Good Deeds-
7. What did you learn about the beliefs of Islam? What are some
ways it differs from Christianity?
Values-
8. What did you learn about the beliefs of Hinduism? What are
some ways it differs from Christianity?
9. What did you learn about the beliefs of Buddhism? What are
some ways it differs from Christianity?
10. Think of all that has been covered, what stands out to your about
Christianity?
Digging Deeper
Universe
Atheism
God Only
Pantheism
Universe &
Many
Polytheism
One
Finite
Finite Godism
Infinite
11. How are you doing on your Read through the New Testament in
30 days Bible reading? If you missed a day or two, don’t quit,
just start with the next reading and keep going.
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Finite
One Beyond
One in the World
Intervention
Theism
Noninterven-
Deism
Panentheism
There are seven basic mutually exclusive world views.
Only one can be true!
All Roads Lead to God but not to Heaven
“Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the
name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.”
Philippians 2:9–11 ESV
What Did Jesus ______________________________ .
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 ESV
So What Do The Difference Religions ____________ .
IslamView of God- __________________
Central Teaching- _________ of Truth
1. Recite the Shahada—“There is no god but Allah, and
Mohammed is his prophet.”
2. Salat- _______ Five Times a Day Facing Mecca
3. Zakat- Give Alms to the _________
4. Sawm- _______ during the month of Raman
5. Hajj- ____________ to Mecca at least once.
Heaven- _________________
HinduismView of God- __________________
BuddhismView of God- __________________
Central Teaching- ___________________________
1. Suffering is ______________
2. Craving is the ____________________
3. The Cure for Suffering is to _____________________
4. Eliminate Suffer By __________________________
1. Right Views
2. Right Thoughts
3. Right Speech
4. Right Behavior
5. Right Occupation
6. Right Effort
7. Right Contemplation
8. Right Meditation
Heaven- _________________
ChristianityView of God- __________________
Central Teaching- ___________________________
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not
your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no
one may boast.”
Ephesians 2:8–9 ESV
“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that
comes judgment,” Hebrews 9:27 ESV
Heaven- _________________
Central Teaching- ___________________________
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 ESV
Heaven- _________________
““Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy
that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the
gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who
find it are few.”
Matthew 7:13–14 ESV