Challenge: By using the word bank below, can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book?
ACROSS | ||
5 | A personal god does not exist; there is only a mysterious Force to be tapped. The core experience is cosmic consciousness. Some proponents advocated using drugs. | |
7 | Many — if not all — roads lead to the One. When we do "realize" our being, we enter the undifferentiated One, absorbed into the Infinite-Impersonal One like a drop of water into a river. | |
8 | This worldview attracts believers in God who want a faith that does not demand too much belief in the supernatural or in the accuracy of the Bible. There is also an atheistic version of this worldview. | |
10 | The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. God doesn't exist. | |
DOWN | ||
1 | Human beings were created good, but the Fall defaced the image of God. Death leads to life with God or else eternal separation from Him. | |
2 | The invisible universe is accessible only through altered states of consciousness. There is no transcendent god who is also personal. Actress Shirley McClaine championed this worldview. | |
3 | The worldview to which the dialectical materialism and secular humanism of Marx is related. The goal of history is a perfect or ideal human society. | |
4 | God created the world, but now is uninvolved. While God may be an architect, He is not a lover or a judge. | |
6 | Knowledge is seen as very subjective. There are no absolute moral values. Truth often seems paradoxical. The Bible is considered historically untrustworthy. | |
9 | Nothing has any meaning, value, significance, dignity or worth. |
Note: This list contains more than twice as many words as you will need. Also, three of the words are used twice in the crossword puzzle
Atheism | Casualism | Christian Theism | Conservatism | Darwinism | Deism | Eastern Pantheistic Monism | Empiricism | Evangelicalism | Existentialism | Gnosticism | Liberalism | Modernism | Naturalism | Neoorthodoxy | New Age | Nihilism | Polytheism | Postmodernism | Socialism | Skepticism | Stoicism | Unbelief
-- Howard Culbertson,
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