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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

How Do You See Life and the World?

                      How Do You See Life and the World? 

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Philosophically, we may live in a twostory house and can move a few minor upstairs furnishings, but have trouble making any major changes. We may never have thought deeply about the foundational supports downstairs.  But we feel strongly about our beliefs. All our life experiences, teachers, and circumstances have lead us to believe this way. We never questioned it. Unless brought into context with a different way of thinking we may never realize we could we wrong. Or. that there may be a better and truer way to think, feel, and believe. Let's honestly and courageously consider the three mayor ways people see life and the world. They are called worldviews.
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I’m an atheist.
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I believe I somehow evolved from dirt and return to dirt. There is no God of any kind nor angels, miracles, human souls, or divine revelations. We're on our own and can believe freely as we like. Persons call us materialists, naturalists, humanists, Marxists, Socialists, Communists, secularists, antisupernaturalists, and physicalist's. Death is the end of life--lights out.
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My belief is justified. Nothing over time produced everything. Unconsciousness assumed conscientiousness. Non life sprang into life spontaneously. Chaos acquired ordered information. Mindlessness became reason. Molecules arranged themselves into men over time and by chance. My belief alone is scientific fact and reasonable. I'm free to think as I like  since the universe is always evolving or in change nothing  can be absolute. 
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I’m a pantheist or monist.
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I believe I’m recycled energy and have many lives (reincarnations). The universe is energy that takes many forms like waves of the sea. But they are all illusion since none of them has permanent existence. Persons call us Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Scientologists, New Agers,  followers of Unity School of Christianity, Transcendental Meditation, and Christian Science.  Though these religions differ somewhat, they all believe in many life cycles and eventual reabsorption into universal energy.
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My belief is justified. It’s shown in yearly seasons of life dying and returning—never mind about the earths tilts circling the sun. It’s justice is shown by abnormalities in animals and persons—never mind natural genetic defects. It’s shown by past life recall—it just seems I’ve been here and done this before or maybe I dreamed it. I was a big potato in my last life. How do I know I’m right? I’m god and I’m enlightened. If you meditate long enough, you will become enlightened too.
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I’m a Christian.
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 I have a love-trust relationship with Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior of sinners. Some persons call me Catholic or Protestant. Others call me bigoted, intolerant, narrow-minded, arrogant, mean spirited, absolutist, even unchristian and other names I won’t mention. Following the Bible I alone have a basis for absolute truth, human dignity, rights, freedom, ethical responsibility, and the choice of an eternal existence with or without God. My faith in practice avoids tyranny, slavery, dispair,  manipulation, Hell.
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My belief is justified. The atheist’s claims are his unscientific unproven naturalistic assumptions. Nothing can’t produce everything because it’s non-being--it doesn’t exist. Mindless, unconscious molecules can’t arrange themselves in any amount of time into intelligent men. Things can’t give what they don’t have to give. The pantheist’s claims are not enlightenment but his unenlightened imagination. The universe is rational and purposeful being the effect of a self-existent, immutable, infinite Mind. Science points to creation. Conscience shows we're more than animals. Biblical Christianity alone centered in the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, can explain everything in terms of Creation, the Fall, Redemption, and Restoration.
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I alone have ultimate authority in my Maker, Redeemer, and Judge. I'm assured of eternal life, dignity, and freedom  through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who in love paid for my sins in His death upon the cross. and who arose again to assure me of its truth. If you believe the Christian biblical explanation makes more sense and explains all life better, Trust in the Lord, Savior, and Guide of us sinners. Pray, Lord I ask You to forgive me of wrong deeds or sin. I trust You now forever. See my articles about the death of Jesus and his resurrection.
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Now you can make a better world by sending God’s messages of truth, love and salvation to a needy world. Just link with file, favorites or the star in the upper right corner of your computer, or file and send in the upper left corner.  You can also translate them into friend's languages. It's the best thing we can do for others. God bless or benefit you in faithful and fruitful ministry.
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  2. How can we know anything? Check out my article: Faith, Reason and Revelation. Also see my articles on Jesus' resurrection. Did Jesus Arise from the Tomb? Is There Life After Death?

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