Gospel Essentials: Christian Worldview

* 19 Explain the biblical support for cultivating intellectual virtues. ROMANS 12:3, EPH. 4:14, 2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4

DiVincenzo, A. (Ed.). (2014). The beginning of wisdom: An introduction to Christian thought and life. Available from http://lc.gcumedia.com/cwv101/the-beginning-of-wisdom-an-introduction-to-christian-thought-and-life/v1.1/

Our worldview allows us to see into the world at such an angle that it coincides with our beliefs, therefore affecting how we think and live. Whether one falls under an atheistic, pantheistic, or theistic worldview, they are guided in their life choices depending on the beliefs of their worldview. Throughout this paper, I will summarize the elements of a Christian Worldview such as God, Humanity, Jesus, and Restoration; I will then analyze questions one might have about the Christian Worldview, and finally I will reflect on my worldview.

Grudem, W. (2003). Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business. Wheaton: IL: Crossway. ISBN: 978-1581345179.

Neighboring Faiths a Christian Introduction to World Religions. 2nd ed. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012. Print. Dashti, Naseer.

Bishop, Philip E. "Chapter 10." Adventures in the Human Spirit. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. 277. Print.

Here Isaiah gave us sevenfold elaboration of the divine endowment of the messianic king .The Spirit of the LORD gives people wisdom and understanding, counsel and strength, knowledge and the fear of the LORD. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

This is portrayed in the Roman goddess Minerva. Straying away from whole empires, Christianity also favored problem-solving. Where Paul the Apostle, an apostle who taught the gospel of the Christ to the first-century world, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, argued that there are both secular and divine wisdom. In Buddhist traditions and Inuit traditions, developing wisdom was one of the aims of teaching. An Inuit Elder said that a person becomes wise when “they could see what needed to be done and do it successfully without being told what to do.”

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the main themes of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Song. The main themes are, Job: (1) Retribution Principle. (2) Wisdom, Justice, and Sovereignty of God. (3) Mediator. Psalms: (1) Retribution Principle. (2) Kingship. (3) Nature and Creation. Proverbs: (1) The Fear of the Lord. (2) the Retribution Principle: Part 3. (3) Human Speech. (4) Human Sexuality. Ecclesiastes: (1) The Retribution Principle: Part 4. (2) Experience vs. Revelation. (3) Epicureanism vs. Piety. Song of Songs: (1) Positive Dimensions of Human Love.

Beliefs influence growth without condemning others. When resorting back to the family’s method of motivational theories in biblical scriptures and passages, Albert Einstein quote, church ceremonies, and gospel songs as ways to prepare, restore and uplift the spirits to refrain from being discouraged. Rev. James Cleveland gospel music provided community with a sense of unity and trust (Leach, 2016). To become overcomer in a world that evolves by achieving goals and staying true to the instilled beliefs and values. The mechanism of inner knowledge creation (IKC) of shared values exemplified theoretical model having directness to others' perspectives. (Corner, & Pavlovich, 2016). Respecting other as human beings, treat individuals with dignity, make moral decisions, and showing gratitude in the mists of an unsettled

Source: Barker, Kenneth L., and John R. Kohlenberger. The Expositor's Bible Commentary: Abridged Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994. Print.

Finding answers to life’s greatest questions or discovering a universal truth is something that scholars and theologians have tried to answer and failed to do so since the beginning of time. I received my Bachelors degree from a Liberal Arts university where I took classes that focused on ethics, philosophy, critical thinking, psychology, religion and a wide range of other classes, yet I feel no closer to the answer than when I was back in Sunday School at First United Methodist Church in Hickory, and first heard the story of Jesus and the Golden Rule.

Even though wisdom is difficult to define, most people have general idea of what wisdom entails (Hooyman, N.R. & Kiyak, H. A.,2011). Morrie Schwartz was a wise individual. Throughout his conversations with Mitch Albom, he never actually tells him things directly instead guides him with his talks of past experiences to generate responses from him. He does the same with others never tells anyone what to do, rather makes comments to guide others to make the right choices. Mitch’s memories of Morrie’s teachings revolved around “being human and relating to others” (Abom, 1997, p. 17). Overall, Morrie demonstrated both factual and procedural knowledge as well as life-span contextualism and value relativism, which, put together define wisdom.

Testament, the author of the book takes a very interesting view on life and wisdom that

I learned that God has instilled in our minds a moral compass that will help us in making a righteous decision. This moral compass only becomes stronger when wisdom is searched out and applied. Only by wisdom can the mind become stronger and that the moral compass can become sharper in the guidance to true freedom. Our minds are in a type of bondage that requires an extraordinary solution or liberation. While wisdom is one of the forms of liberation of the human mind, God has also given us tools to complete the liberation from bondage so that we are able come to a peace of mind.