Mind/Body Dualism

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The Biblical worldviews Psychology is Mind/Body Dualism. This takes into account the fall of man and states that humans have a sin nature that was superimposed onto God’s image. If man cannot recognize his state of being he will not be able to change his behavior. Marx is trying to do exactly that, change the behavior of people without recognizing sin nature. 2 Corinthians 5:17 states, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). A Biblical perspective doesn’t only take sin nature into account, but also Jesus’s redemptive work on the cross that makes Christians a new creation. Mind/Body Dualism includes that God created humans with free will, otherwise we …show more content…

The Marxist theory of law is “Proletariat Law.” Marx held the viewpoint that the legal system was used to protect the bourgeois and oppress the proletariat’s. He believed that the rich had the power to create laws in order to take advantage of the poor. “Since the idea of law was interpreted by Marx as invariably an instrument of class domination, he argued that the coming of a classless society implied that all laws would have to disappear” (Zimmermann). Marxists would even use lawlessness in order to overthrow the bourgeois, this also ties in with the ethics of Communism. Anything is ethical as long as it pushes people toward the new world order. From a Biblical Worldview there is Divine/Natural Law. This means, that God has created divine laws and the means of discovering them (AllAboutWorldview.org). Psalm 127:1 describes law from a Biblical perspective very well. “ A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain” (Psalm 127:1). This moves nicely into the next discipline which goes hand in hand with law, …show more content…

This view only takes into account nature, therefore evolution takes a large part in it. Marx believed that no matter what happened eventually Communism would be at the end of history. In his theory if you did not play a part in moving the world toward Communism you were historically insignificant. “The Marxist view of history is termed Historical Materialism, meaning that only matter exists, so history is merely the account of matter in motion. In this view, neither God nor angels nor human souls act as the basis for the working of history; rather, matter obeying specific laws is the source of progress in the world” (AllAboutWorldview.org). Of course a Biblical worldview yet again differs drastically, in this case primarily due to Theism and

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