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Study Section 15: The Laws of Knowledge

(This is 1 of 22 study sections in the course, Advanced Apologetics and World Views)

15.1 Connect

The Bible says that God made mankind in His own image and after His likeness and gave man
dominion over the creation (Genesis 1:26). He even had Adam name all the animals. In what
ways do you supposed man was created in God’s image?

It certainly was not a physical image, for God is spirit. So the image of God must be non-
physical. It really had to do with several things. Man can communicate with God and with one-another.
Man could have a relationship with God. Obviously, he made man with creative ability to name all the
animals. He had the ability to think and reason. It may be that God made man to think like He thinks
and talk like He talks and understand some things that God understands.

Man sinned and this image was fractured. The spiritual connection was broken. Yet we see that
mankind after the fall immediately started farming, began using metals, and was extremely innovative.
Some of the image of God, while impaired, was still existent in the mind and heart of man. In Genesis
11:6 God decided to confound the people of Shinar’s language because if he left them to themselves,
God said, “And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be
impossible for them.” Mankind was acquiring knowledge to create a society that would exalt itself.

Today we are going to look at how important acquiring knowledge is. We are going to see that mankind
can think like God thinks, a remnant of being created in God’s image.

15.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to describe what knowledge is.

2. The student should be able to describe the three ways to obtain knowledge.

3. The student should be able to explain the four laws of logic.

4. The student should be able to present various Scriptures and ask questions that help us make
decisions in life.

5. The student should be able to define hedonism and why it is a false philosophy upon which to base a
life.