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World View vs. Religious Worldview

A worldview is "the most general comprehensive concepts and unstated assumptions about life which are embedded in a cultural way of life." It pushes itself on the way you think and attaches itself to your emotions and actions. It is also an extremely powerful filter that only allows you to see a small part of reality and in fact structures reality for you. On the other hand, we have the religious worldview. A religious worldview is "any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement, or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world, and man's relationship to God and the world." Why are worldviews important? There is no other concept so essential as to understanding why people are different and why people are similar. They let us know the root of the problem. If we can get past another's worldview then we cut to the heart of their person. It enables us to bypass all the mumbo jumbo jargon so that we speak with their heart. Once we do this, we have brought them to a point of choice. They can both accept and live the truth, or put the blinders and filters back on.

Every person has both a worldview and a religious worldview. One of three things can happen with one's religious worldview: it will infuse with one's worldview; it will replace one's worldview; it will be that same as their worldview. Let's use the atheist as an example. In the first scenario, they will be taught from childhood to live morally and when they get older and firmly don't believe in any god, they still live by the moral standard, making exceptions when it pleases them. In the second scenario, the atheist will leave morality behind and live a wanton life and disbelieve in morals. In the third, the atheist will live morally making no exceptions.

Through the rest of these apologetic pages, I hope to show that the Christian worldview is the only consistent one through and through. That it is the only worldview that includes all the facts of reality. Also, to show that all other worldviews fall short when we bring them to their rational conclusion. And finally, to show that something that is always changing with the movement of science is not worth putting your faith in. The Christian worldview contains to main parts. First, that Christ claimed that He is the only way, the only truth, and the only life; that He is God. And Secondly, the Christian worldview dictates how Christ/God would have us act in a certain situation. As a worldview, the Christian one allows someone to see things as a whole. Each thing and person has its beginning, end, function and meaning. It gives answers to questions both common and uncommon. It guides, directs, reveals and restores one's life. It is complete in all aspects.

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