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DISCUSSION POST #1 Briefly explain what a worldview is and how one’s worldview would impact his view of a state’s role on issues such as abortion or same-sex marriage. A worldview is how one views the world. In the article we read this week, it says that a worldview “comprises one’s collection of presuppositions, convictions and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life” (MacArthur, What's your worldview? 2014). This can impact how people see things, such as abortion or same-sex marriage. While someone else will see abortion as okay, we as Christians, don’t believe that it is okay as a baby is a gift from God. The United States Supreme Court case, Roe v Wade, is an extremely good example of the abortion laws we have today. The case was about “A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which proscribe procuring or attempting an abortion except on medical advice for the purpose of saving the mother's life.” Roe v. Wade 93 S.Ct. 705. While this a very controversial case, I do not support abortions, unless it can save the mother’s life. The reason I say that is because it is better to save one life then it is to have two dead people. That is the only way I can see an abortion happening. With same-sex marriage, some may think it is okay, but Christians see it as a sin, because a marriage is only between a man and a woman. This is the way most, if not all, Christians see the world in a board term. While same sex marriage is legal due to Obergefell v Hodges, Christians are still opposed to it. In the case, it states that same sex it legal due to the Fourteenth Amendment, because of the Equal Protection Act. Some who has the worldview that a relationship between two same sex people marriage, God does not see it that way. Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113, 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 707, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 (1973), overruled by Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. , 597 U.S. 215, 142 S. Ct. 2228, 213 L. Ed. 2d 545 (2022), and holding modified by Planned Parenthood of Se. Pennsylvania v. Casey , 505 U.S. 833, 112 S. Ct. 2791, 120 L. Ed. 2d 674 (1992) Dr. John MacArthur, Whats Your Worldview?, Answers in Genesis (May 2, 2006), https://answersingenesis.org/presuppositions/whats-your-worldview/ . (accessed on January 17, 2024) REPLIES TO POST #1 Hey Ashleigh! We both choose to do the worldview topic for this week. Even though we have different worldviews due to how we grew up, we feel different about both same-sex marriage and abortions. When doing research on the topic of abortion, I actually learned that the Bible does not mention the word abortion at all. For example, in Exodus 21:22 it says, “When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage…” (NIV). To me after reading this, it seems like a women’s life can be more important than a baby’s who is still in the womb. While I understand this is and will always be a controversial topic that will always be up for debate, mostly with Christianity and some other religions, I don’t see any harm, if the women’s life is at risk. If there is no risk to the mother, they should not choose to have an abortion. Jessica
Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 21:22 - New International Version , Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exod+21%3A22&version=NIV . Hey Shalah! We both chose the same prompt for this week. But I noticed that our posts differ because of our worldviews. Since I have friends and family that are apart of the LGBTQ+ community, so my worldview on that is different. Leviticus 20:13 is always brought up in arguments about same sex marriage. But when I was doing more research on this topic, I read that there is nothing in the Bible that Jesus said that was against homosexuality. On one website I read, is said, “Jesus uplifted actions and attitudes of justice, love, humility, mercy, and compassion” ( Four things you didn't know about God and same-sex marriage 2023). While reading the Bible, it is clear that is what God is teaching us. There are no verses that specifically say that gay marriage is wrong or being in a same-sex relationships are sin. God loves everyone as it says in Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” ( NIV). Even though everyone sees homosexuality as sin, God still died for us and he always showed love and mercy to everyone. Jessica Four Things You Didn’t Know About God and Same-Sex Marriage, Center for American Progress (Apr. 14, 2009), https://www.americanprogress.org/article/four-things-you-didnt-know-about-god-and-same-sex-marriage/.Bible Gateway passage: Romans 5:8 - New International Version, Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/? search=Romans%205%3A8&version=NIV. DISCUSSION POST 2 The qualifications of each of the fifty five delegates in the Convention were definitely unique. Each of delegates had to be extremely well educated. Twenty nine of the men were graduates of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, William and Mary, Oxford, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. (Mark A Beliles & Douglas S Anderson, Contending for the Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty 16-18 (2005)). Some of them were also lawyers. These men also had to have a strong experience serving their country. If they had to write the first laws of the land that is the United States of America, they needed to know how to lead. Which is why some of them were state governors, fought in the war, and served in Congress. They also needed experience in writing legal documents. They were chosen because some of them wrote their own state’s constitution. Their last and finial qualification was they had to have strong Biblical principles. These qualifications impacted our Constitution is because it we know that it was written by people that were well educated. It was also written by people who had great leadership skills and experience serving our country. Since the Constitution is a legal document, the people who had the experience writing one was extremely valuable. We needed to make sure it was written correctly. The last reason impacted the contributions because the country was founded on Christian principles. I believe that there was evidence of a divine intervention. Most of the delegates where regulars of the Church and there was two that were preachers in their church. The delegates had to travel to get to they needed to go. They needed to be safe in their travels. It was clear that God had looked out for them while they traveled. God knew that they needed to be there for the Convention. Romans 8:28 says “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV). The delegates knew that this was their purpose and it was the purpose given to them by God. Its why they had the qualifications they did.
Mark A Beliles & Douglas S Anderson, Contending for the Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty 16-18 (2005). Bible Gateway passage: Romans 8:28 - New International Version, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/? search=Romans+8%3A28&version=NIV.
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