Theology

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Theology needs to be recognized as something holistic and essential to all people. I have a theory that an individual’s concept of God plays a drastic role in virtually all aspects of their life; from one’s big decisions such as their relationships, job choice, and community, to smaller decisions such as hobbies – things that they spend their time on, what they eat, and others. This conclusion however is drawn with recognition that this notion could be perceived as extreme, especially to those who view religion as something that is done at church on Sunday morning and nothing more. However, what one’s concept of God is drastically influences who they see themselves as in the spiritual economy, and therefore their purpose for living each and every day that God allows them to awake from sleep.
Background plays a crucial role in who they are and what they do. One might say that the past is simply the product of life and liberty, and therefore to understand one’s life and liberty it is necessary to understood one’s past. I personally grew up very much familiar with church. I was dedicated and raised in the church my parents went to in southern Wisconsin. I was accustomed to the church kid lifestyle from the very start. I was a part of AWANA, VBS, Sunday school, youth group, mission trips, worship team, mentoring, and homeless shelter, virtually anything that I could join in from the church, I would, and did so to the point of some weeks in the summer, spending more time at the church building than my own house. Over the course of sometime of conflict between myself and the youth pastor and my views of what discipleship should be, I happily left the church when the time came to move three hundred miles to attend school in Minnesota. ...

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...pective is more right than another because of the different perspectives. As it was discussed in class, it is arguable that many of the disagreements and conflicts in antiquity can be described as rooted in differences on an image level, rather than necessarily theological disagreements. I would dare to take this claim a step further and extend it out to ecclesiological conflicts, denominational conflicts, relational conflicts and even political conflicts.
With this notion in the front of our mind, we must ask “Now what?” It is vital that Christians respond to this concept in the reflection on what their own concept of God is, and how it got to the point that it is at. We ought to be skeptical of our image of God and put it to the scrutiny of scripture and verify that the God that we pray to and worship cognitively is actually the God described in the scriptures.

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