The Anasazi Indians were a very interesting tribe. The word "Anasazi" is a Navajo word meaning "Ancient Ones." The Anasazis, also known as "Cliffdwellers", were a very artistic tribe. They were from the American Southwest and lived in caves in cliff walls.…
carried roof beams more than 50 miles from the forests of Mt. Taylor and Chuskas.…
We sinned against God and subjected the whole world to a curse. God Himself has redeemed the world through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. I know that one day he will restore creation to its former perfect state (Isaiah 65:17-25). A Christian worldview leads us to believe in moral absolutes, miracles, human dignity, and the possibility of redemption. Assessing my worldview just made me realize that I have no doubts in what I believe to be true, and I believe that my worldview becomes the driving force behind every emotion, decision, and action. Therefore, it affects my response to every area of…
Change is inevitable and in most cases, change is a good, and much needed thing, especially when it comes from a place of adaptation and progression in a culture. However, there is a vast difference between culture change, and culture loss. While the gradual changing of a culture can be a revitalizing thing, the complete loss and total disappearance of a culture is never a thing to be celebrated. Less than ten years ago, a visit to the tropical rainforests between the Guaviare and Inirida rivers on the Amazonian basin of Colombia, you would have come across the indigenous people of the Nukak Maku tribe. Take a trip there today however, and the Nukak people will not be there. The Nukak people are just one of…
Considering the harsh environment of the arctic tundra, it is extraordinary that humans could survive and even thrive in that environment. People have been living in the arctic of Alaska of r thousands of years before the Ipiutak people took root in the area. The Norton Tradition, Choris, Denbigh Flint Complex, and Dorset survived and thrive in coastal Alaska. The harsh environment didn’t deter humans from occupying the area. The Ipiutak were one such people that occupied the northern costal part of Alaska, but who were they and where did they originate from. This has been a much discussed about topic between archaeologists. Helge Larsen and Froelich Rainey’s analysis of the excavation at Point Hope suggested that “As INTIMATED IN THE…
This mission reminds us that for the Kingdom of God to continue to break in, individual lives need to be changed, while being motivated and equipped for transformation. Our Book of Discipline offers this cue: “God has used our church to save persons, heal relationships, transform social structures, and spread scriptural holiness, thereby changing the world.” When we change lives and introduce people to the all-loving nature of God, we indeed transform the world. When making disciples, the Church welcomes people into community, educates them on God’s call for Christians, and equips them toward using their spiritual gifts to serve as change agents playing a role in bringing about the Kingdom of…
My worldview is how I live my life according to certain beliefs, morals, and values. As it states in (Cosgrove, 2006) a worldview is a set of assumptions, or presuppositions, that are generally unconsciously held but affect how we think and live (pg.20)”. For me to be aware of my worldview will help me make right decisions in life. Analyzing the assumptions, addressing questions all align with a Christian worldview.…
My conclusion, as I took this class my understanding of Christians has being a good outlook for me, in the way that God wants us to live. As I have outline about Jesus did not claim to be God, but he did state that I am the Fathers and Son. And if a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life, yes it does because they are suppose to be God leader in order to help others come to God. The local church can communicate God’s love to the community by going out and taking time to help the community understand the meaning of God.…
We all have a worldview, a set of lenses used to view all of life and reality. Our individual worldview will influence all personal decisions and will help decide the direction traveled through our life. The role of faith and religious beliefs will affect the development of a personal worldview. A Christian worldview view is based on the belief that God exists (Heb. 11:6) and that God is the ruler by which all things are measured. A foundational belief that God created all things (Gen. 1:11), and he holds all of creation together (Col. 1:17). A Christian worldview will also believe that the Bible is God’s divinely inspired word (2 Tim. 3:16). A belief that God became flesh and lived among us in the body of Jesus Christ (Col. 1:19), and that death and sin entered the world when mankind chose to rebel against God’s word (Rom. 5:12-14). A continuing faith in the belief that the only way to eternal life and being reunited with God is in believing in (John 3:15-19) and obeying (Luke 8:21, John 3:20) Jesus Christ.…
As a Christian I feel that my knowledge and understanding of God’s word could have a…
Competing worldviews are breaking out everywhere especially throughout North America. Two sides with vastly differing and incompatible worldviews are being locked in a bitter conflict that permeates every level of society. On one side of the battle is the Christian worldview, and on the other is the Humanist worldview divided into three branches: Secular Humanism, Marxism/Leninism, and Cosmic Humanism. It’s in this essay that we will seek to understand all of the three Humanist worldviews while presenting a strong, honest, truthful, intelligent defense of Biblical Christianity. As believers in and followers of Jesus Christ, we need to consider how our commitment to Him affects not just our political and ethical convictions, but also the way…
A worldview is a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes that enable us to process new information and maintain a consistent view of reality. Through our worldview we apply the standards that allow us to make connections between what we know, what we experience, and what new knowledge claims we encounter. Our worldview supplies the interpretive framework for understanding our experiences and the events of the world, and it provides the values that form the basis for decision making. Because faith-learning integration is closely linked with judgments about what is or is not knowledge, our worldview is therefore clearly crucial to the proper functioning of faith and learning integration. Indeed, our worldview is the philosophical engine that drives the integrative process. A challenge facing Christian educators is that a Biblical worldview foundation has been taken for granted. Successful faith-learning integration is impossible for students who lack a clear and well defined Biblical worldview. The unity of truth—including academic and Biblical or theological truth—is at the heart of integration.…
I wake up at ten am and I go down to the kitchen to see Zandar sitting at the counter.…
The Lord Jesus demonstrated the life of God while He walked on earth, and this life is now available to the one who believes in Him by faith. In order to walk in the power of this indestructible life, we must have our minds renewed, and washed by the word of God. This new life in Christ cannot be ours as long as we remain carnally minded because the carnal mind is full of doubt and does not trust God. If we desire to enter into the fullness of God in Christ and enter into the blessedness of the life that the Heavenly Father and our blessed Lord Jesus enjoys, then we must be spiritually minded. This is completely the work of the Holy Spirit to transform, renew, and to wash our minds, enabling us to be spiritually minded, and to be full of faith, which opens up to us all the fullness of God demonstrated by the Lord Jesus Christ and the life He lived.…
One may think that preunderstandings and presuppositions are the same, yet Dr. L. Percer stated that presuppositions is the format for which we use to understand biblical interpretation, and preunderstandings is how we view life. Klein inserts, “Preunderstandings may be defined as a body of assumptions and attitudes which a person brings to perception.”4 When it comes to understanding biblical text interpretation, our culture or how we were raised is a determining factor. Most Americans considered themselves to be Christians because they were raised in a Christian environment and not because of any deliberate choice on their part. Most Christians have not objectively investigated or looked extensively into the history of their own religion.5 Benjamin Franklin proclaim, “Most men indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them, it is so far…