A Look at Prominent Worldviews

James W. Sire claimed that world view is “…a set of presuppositions… which we hold… about the makeup of our world.” As of me, my definition does not deviate much. World view is the way, either supported or unsupported, how I see what I see. It’s like glasses where I see everything through the filter of glasses. Supposedly, world view can affect one very much. The fact that Muslims goes to Mecca or Christians going to church every week or the mere choice between chocolate bar and ice cream are all affected by world view.

The Christian world view bases everything to the scripture, the Bible. Christians say that humans are innately evil because Adam and Eve were kicked out from the Garden of Eden. Christians also emphasizes that it is only through Jesus for one to achieve salvation. This has been somewhat controversial recently just because Christianity is saying there is no other way where other religions say there are. One of the main characteristics of Christianity is that God is omnipotent and omnipresent. With this, critics of Christianity has been saying that if God is omnipotent, for example, that He could move a rock so big that even God cannot move. This is very stupid argument though, with having illogical paradox in the comment itself. About theology Christians believe that God is one and three, existing all together, thus called the Trinitarian Theology. Here, God, Son and Holy Spirit all exists at the same time but also exists as one. As main premise of Christianity, many tried to challenge the notion resulting in heresies such as the notion where God is God, Son is a mere creature and Holy Spirit is force of God. Though some Christians have faulty information, it is fact that Christianity is in support of philosophy....

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...d post-modernism both supported punctuated evolution though their ideas, especially the difference between cultural relativism and proletariat morality gave them a huge difference. Post-modernism, personally, deserves lots of critiques. Can’t they realize that they are making universal claims when they say there cannot be a universal claim? Also Marxist-Leninism is weird too because of its proletariat morality which indicates that government’ job is always right. That’s not true at all. Cosmic Humanists say that we are all gods. Then why is god needed? And then who made the world? Cosmic humanists are very ambiguous in their world view except for their claim that everything is god.

Works Cited

James W. Sire, Discipleship of the Mind, Apr. 1990

Muhammad, Quran 2:183~187, 625 C.E.

A summit Ministries Curriculum, Understanding the Times, David Noebel, Apr. 2010