Metaphysics Time. What Is Really Real? [Biblical Worldview Course, Session 2]

What is really real? What explains reality and why things are the way they are?  The study of real reality, prime reality, is metaphysics. And the question of prime reality has been a live one at least since Heraclitus said "All is fire" and Thales said "All is water.

There are other questions bound up with this question, too. As a thoughtful follower of Jesus Christ, you need to be able to answer them. And you need to be prepared to teach your kids how to answer them too. 

These are what we'll look at in this episode.

1. How do we explain why there are necessary things (like laws of logic and morality) and contingent things (like matter and energy)?
2. How do we account for oneness and diversity? Oneness refers to laws, principles, categories. Diversity refers to individuals, entities, and facts.
3. And how do we explain why the world seems to have both mind and matter in it? Can matter give rise to mind (a kind of materialist explanation)? Is everything really mind (pan-psychism?)

As Christians, we aren't left to speculate. We have a key, found in the Bible.

Non-biblical worldviews try hard but fail to account for the way reality really is. This isn't because reality is hard to explain but because building upon a false foundation.

The key to understanding the cosmos is not to examine its parts in relation to itself, but to consider it all (sum and part) in relation to its Creator.

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