Reflection Paper On Worldview

According to the Bible, there is life after death. When people die, the body becomes separated from the spirit and the soul. It is the body that remains on earth while the spirit goes back to God (John 11:25). Here, depending on your deeds on earth, the spirit may be accepted into Gods kingdom (heaven) or it may be subjected to punishment through hellfire (Matthew 10:28). (625 words)

One distinct worldview is the desire to flee our own world in hopes of a better eternity. This worldview states that everything in our world is evil and absolutely no good can come from it. The only escape from this evil is death, and the ability to enter heaven, where everything is restored and perfect. Those that hold this worldview hope for death, as it is considered the greatest moment of one’s life. This is the moment in which they can move on into a more perfect world.

Destiny can be a word that many people fear, simply due to the fear of the unknown. Humans fear life as well as death on a day to day basis. But the Bible reassures us that death can be faced without fear (psalm 23:4), because as Christians we believe that death is nothing more than a reward for the life that we have lived and we should welcome death when it is our time. Our destiny in life is to serve God to the fullest and to be with him one day in Heaven when we are called to go and leave our body here on earth.

What practical steps could be taken to build a relationship with a follower of this worldview who might be a co-worker, neighbor, etc.? Just like with anything in life you have to take the time to understand and research on one religion. I think the most important part in trying to build a relationship with a follower of the Buddhist Worldview is to be honest and up front let them know you’re not here to judge them or be evil you just want to understand their point of view on things and gain some knowledge on how they see the truth. Because most Buddhist fears evil spirits and want to relieve them. I think we are all entitled to your own opinion. But as Christian you have to let them know that we do not have to relieve evil spirits because

Worldviews vary from person to person and faith to faith, resulting in everyone seeing the world through their own assumptions and beliefs. Out of the many worldviews discussed in the text, Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, and in class three stood out to me for comparison. These three worldviews consist of Naturalism, Pantheism and Polytheism. Worldviews, although not always correct, are how people see the world and reflect on our expectations about life. Differences can be seen in beliefs such as if they believe in a spiritual world, a material world, or both. Worldview’s purposes are to explain the purpose of man and the world. All three worldviews attribute the problems in the world to different aspects based on their beliefs and have diverse notions of how to resolve the world problems. Although a few similarities can be found among these world views, there are multiple differences found.

My personal worldview explains the way I view and live life through the assumptions and beliefs I hold in response to the world around me. I believe I was created for a specific reason and purpose.

What is a world view? A worldview is an individual’s view on life. It is the philosophy with which we live. It makes us who we are and is shaped by our experiences, culture, and background (Smith, 2015). A worldview is fluid, it changes as we change and discover our identities. It is made up of the questions that humans may ask to determine their wealth to the world or their purpose in life. Our worldview can make us gravitate toward other individuals with similar beliefs. It is a unifying factor in our day to day interactions with people and the world as a whole. It is the way that we determine what is “considered meaningful, what is worth doing, and which causes may require sacrifice”

Due to the "highly subjective nature of most scientific theorizing... [we should] let the Bible speak for itself and modify our scientific view of origins accordingly." (as cited in Downey, D., & Porter, S., 2009).

What is a worldview? How does it influence our daily lives? A worldview is how we see reality. It influences the way we live our lives. It influences the way we interact with each other. A worldview is a belief system of who we are, why we are here, and what our destiny is.

The first question given in the book is if we have the power to make choices ourselves or if we are simply following some sort of programming, like our brains, and not actually making choices ourselves. I answered yes to this question. I find it hard to believe that we do not have any sense of free will or ability to make choices ourselves. I do believe that God has a plan for us and that He is an omniscient God, I still believe that God gave us the free will to make our own decisions. For example, we choose to whether or not we want to follow God.

Before taking this course, I had no idea that I had a worldview. I know my worldview didn’t change, but my understanding of myself, others and what that means changed enormously. I learned something very useful and important about the way I perceive things and gain knowledge; I learned about things I didn’t know previously.

As stated by Groothuis (2011) “But Christianity, on the contrary, depicted God as a rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting human comprehension” ( p. 102). All that is in the universe, except for God Himself, is God’s creation. Therefore, my Christian worldview begins with the existence of a God who is the personal and creator of everything we survey. Knowing that God is the cause for creation, brings perspective to my life. It establishes the place of a great being that took time, out of time and space to create the world in which I exist. A world meticulously designed to work as one connected string. How can a world be fine-tuned with irreducible complexity, without a designer?

Philosophy can be described as a chance for person to undertake an opportunity to understand themselves, our world and society, and relations between ourselves and one another. Those who are able to study philosophy, can find out what is to be human, what kind of person is it good to be, and especially how are we to live a good life. I, myself, have had an opportunity to take a philosophy class and as my time in philosophy is starting to come to a close, I am suddenly realizing how Philosophy has changed the aspects and my outlook upon my life.

An individual’s world view is described as, “A pair of glasses though which we look at the world around us.” (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1998, p.7). Our world view is our perspective of the world around us, which is where we get the understanding of how to live in it. Our purpose in life comes in our worldview. Our worldviews are the foundation of our lives, it determines what we value and what we live for. One’s worldview does not have to be in reality as long as it is their reality. Someone’s world view is their personal truth. For example, if someone believes that the world is flat, that is their truth, making it their worldview. In that case that is also literally how they see the world.

This essay is reflection about my understanding from what I have learned during this class about what philosophy is. Philosophy is a broad topic and can be hard to understand. What we learn is class about philosophy defiantly makes me think and makes my brain turn all the time, but so far, my understanding is that philosophy is the study of knowledge. It breaks down what everything is. Examples used in class are chariness, deskness, and the main one sued in class “cupness”.