The Ultimate Reality Of A Christian Worldview
Marcus Creese
Dr. Tracy A. Ford
HUM 226
12 November 2014
Worldview
The world is filled with a wide variety of worldviews, which often change with experiences and new insight. Aging in the human race often affects an individual’s worldview. Human behavior is molded by learned behavior along with varying environmental factors. My worldview has been greatly affected by my parent's teachings and my past church experiences. I come from a Christian theistic world that contrasts many other worldviews. A naturalistic worldview is one of the many contradicting worldviews that do not agree with a Christian theistic perspective.
Ultimate reality is something that is the supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality. The ultimate reality of a Christian Theist is God. I believe God created the Heavens and the Earth. Jesus is the holy messiah, the savior of the human race. God is sovereign and there is no other God. 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 says, “ But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,” Christian Theists ultimate reality involves both salvation and judgment. I have to live my life the way God sees …show more content…
The prime reality of a naturalist differs from the Christian’s view. Prime reality in naturalism is matter. In the beginning there was nothing or at least we cannot know what there was. Our knowledge of the Universe and of reality begins with the Big Bang. The naturalistic worldview believes the origin of everything is a result of an explosion. Naturalists share the idea that God in inexistent, and that everything is a product of a sequence of random events. Natural is the principle of simplicity this means we have no justification to believe that a Creator/God exists. There is no need for god in a naturalistic
Dr. Tracy A. Ford
HUM 226
12 November 2014
Worldview
The world is filled with a wide variety of worldviews, which often change with experiences and new insight. Aging in the human race often affects an individual’s worldview. Human behavior is molded by learned behavior along with varying environmental factors. My worldview has been greatly affected by my parent's teachings and my past church experiences. I come from a Christian theistic world that contrasts many other worldviews. A naturalistic worldview is one of the many contradicting worldviews that do not agree with a Christian theistic perspective.
Ultimate reality is something that is the supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality. The ultimate reality of a Christian Theist is God. I believe God created the Heavens and the Earth. Jesus is the holy messiah, the savior of the human race. God is sovereign and there is no other God. 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 says, “ But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,” Christian Theists ultimate reality involves both salvation and judgment. I have to live my life the way God sees …show more content…
The prime reality of a naturalist differs from the Christian’s view. Prime reality in naturalism is matter. In the beginning there was nothing or at least we cannot know what there was. Our knowledge of the Universe and of reality begins with the Big Bang. The naturalistic worldview believes the origin of everything is a result of an explosion. Naturalists share the idea that God in inexistent, and that everything is a product of a sequence of random events. Natural is the principle of simplicity this means we have no justification to believe that a Creator/God exists. There is no need for god in a naturalistic