Flannery Wolter's Theory

When you look around and gaze at the beautiful creation before you, do you reflect on how amazing God is? God made the creation, man, and everything surrounding the two. There are many different worldviews. This paper will focus on the Christian worldview. The Christian worldview involves God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration.

The author also addresses four themes to help the reader gain an understanding of the Christian world view which include creation, fall, redemption and consummation. Creation addresses the understanding of who humans are and how it relates to the world that we live in. The fall deals rebellion against God in the garden. Redemption speaks about the forgiveness of our sins that came through the savior of Jesus Christ. Finally Consummation pulls all three previous topics together and is the start of the integration at its core.

The fall has two distinct parts: structure and direction. Wolters describes structure as the basic creation of things and direction as whether or not those things are for God or against God. Wolters is not saying that everything is evil because of the fall. He is saying that things that were created are still good in their entirety, but that they have been touched by the distortion of sin (54). The direction that Wolters speaks of does not just apply to humanity, but to cultural things like art, technology, and schools (59). All of these cultural aspects fit the design that God created, but in some way they have missed the grip of working for God and have become distorted by sin. A negative tendency that shows up in our world because of the fall is the idea of Gnosticism (61). This tendency is present in Christian thinking when parts of creation are spoken against, and not the corruption or infection that has inhabited the whole creation. Once Christians see that there is not a secular realm present, but that worldly refers to all of creation as a whole with all of it being open to redemption. So we should get away from thinking about a sacred realm, that is limited to the redemption of human souls. Wolters explains that all of creation cries out for redemption and that it is not impossible for creation to be redeemed (62). There was a time when creation

Humankind was created in the image of God; He gave them like characteristics such as compassion, love, and faithfulness. In Genesis 3 we learn of the Fall of Humanity, which introduces not only sin into the world but also pain. (“Lecture 3”, 2015) After the Fall human nature is then scarred by sin, humans are born sinful by nature. In Genesis 4 Cain brings murder into the world; from here we see humanity relentlessly depart from the wisdom of God. (“Lecture 3”, 2015) Only by accepting Jesus Christ into their hearts, can they atone for their sins and get right with the Lord.

• Sin as connected with the limitations of man’s being: is necessary cause that stems from our finite being

In 1741, during the period of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached about what was the meaning of “sin”. He said that sinners are strictly disgusting to God because “Sin is an active force in the world that is ultimately controlled by the devil”. On Edwards’ eyes there was no

Chapter 5 describes Genesis, how by Adam and Eve's decision to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. All of what God created was then infected by sin. Causing nothing He created to work "as it should. Sin leads to the disintegration of every area of life" (Keller 85). Genius describes how God created humans for work, but not since sin has been entangled to every single area of life. We are "suffering the natural consequences of working against" our design, (Keller 86), or "painful toil" (Genesis 3:17). We often experience feeling of fulfilment for a short moment and then it seems to all fall apart. This is "because of a lack of ability and because of resistance in the environment around us." (Keller 90). But as Timothy Keller states, he is "grateful to God for the glimpses He's given" for these glimpses are how " work was intended to be" (92) as should we be grateful as well.

This destroyed the delicate balance of the world. From then on, there was to be hostility between humans and other creatures. Humans would have to battle constantly to grow enough food. Pain, such as that resulting in childbirth, entered the world, along with death. The first sin also caused the world to become distanced from God. In this new and damaged environment, remote from God, moral evil flourished and spread.

Original sin is a widely discussed issue in theology. Original sin is a gift bestowed upon mankind from the actions of betrayal displayed by Adam and Eve to God. Two prominent theologians who have spoken about original sin are Reinhold Niebuhr and Valerie Saving. Niebuhr’s explorers the debatable notion of original sin. Meanwhile Savings focuses on woman in theology; how both genders do not share the same values in sin.

When humans commit sins, do humans normally blame God directly? In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is the creator of a monster who is capable of (and commits) murders and framing others for his actions. While any relationship (God to creation, inventor to invention, or parent to child) can be applied as a framework for the relationship between Victor and his monster, this paper primarily examines their relationship as one of God to God’s creation. While fantasizing about the possibility of creating something that would not be bound by life and death, Victor immediately establishes what his relationship towards his creation will be when he states (Shelley, 1818, Ch. 4), “A new species would bless me as its creator and source;

“First, humans are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-28). Second, after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, all humans are sinful by nature (Genesis 6:5; Romans 3:9-23)”. (“Departure from Wisdom”, Diffey, n.d., para. 9). In the beginning God created humans in his image and placed them in the Garden of Eden to live and work. They had dominion over the earth. In this time there was no sin. Once Adam and Eve were tempted and ate from the tree that was forbidden this all changed. This act introduced the sin into the world. Because of this temptation could be considered of one of humanity’s

The natural world began when God created the heavens and the Earth (Genesis 1:1). Romans talks about the natural world with the view from a biblical standpoint. God’s creation was beautiful and it was made in His own eternal power and divine nature (Romans 1:20). The unsaved worldview may not believe in God being the creator, but the biblical view does. The world believes in science and having an explanation for everything. They believe that man came from monkeys. They believe in evolution. The biblical beliefs is all about faith. Sin was first introduced to the natural world through Adam and Eve (Genesis 3). In Romans the people worships man made idols instead of the creator (Romans 1:23). They began to

He explains the significance of mankind’s creation and the original sin’s effect on creation. St. Athanasius states that humans were created in the Image of God to be aligned with God’s will, and remain incorrupt. Furthermore, man was created with a unique and special grace from God. However, mankind’s relationship with God was broken through the Fall, and death was the penalty. St. Athanasius argues that because of the original sin, the Word took on human form in order to rescue mankind, and grant salvation, so that death was no longer the penalty for sin.

The presence of moral evil known as sin in God’s universe is one of the great questions that has puzzled the mind of man. More so, religious communities interpret the concept of sin diversely through its representation throughout diverse sacred texts. Christianity explicitly teaches that sin is bred into adherents through the original sin which has corrupted the world; however Islam takes the view that believers are born free of sin and taking part in sinful behaviour is an act rather than a state of mind. Sin is interpreted by followers through the way leading figures like Jesus are shown teaching about it in various sacred texts. Follower’s attitudes are influenced, and perhaps challenged by these implications. In addition, interpretations

This is the problem of evil. Augustine summed it up most effectively when he said, “Either God cannot abolish evil or he will not. If he cannot then he is not all-powerful. If he will not then he is not all good.” Augustine viewed evil as merely the absence of good just as dark is the absence of light, a non-being “a name for nothing but the want of good”. He looked to the Bible for an explanation for the existence of God and believed that the fall of humanity from grace, as shown in Genesis, showed the origin of evil. He believed that evil came into the world because human beings had deliberately turned away from God and his goodness. This suggests that both moral and natural evil is a result of original human sin.