Running Head: The Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible The Bible was Inspired by God Robert Surface Student # L23603038 Liberty University The Bible is the authoritative source of God’s Word to two hundred and forty seven million people throughout the United States who claim to be Christians. However, to accept the Bible as authoritative we must also accept the answers to more general questions in relationship to the Bible. We will discuss in this paper the question of what it means to say that the Bible is an authority as well as where that authority originates. We will discuss inspiration and the definition of inerrancy. In detail we will discuss the relationship between inspiration and inerrancy.
Research Question: Compare and contrast the Christian views of salvation versus the Islam views of salvation. With much candour and respect given to religion and the study of religion, over the years, humankind has searched for the need to belong and be a part of something big. Salvation is that which has brought the commencement of such an activity. The word salvation is one taken from the Latin word salvatio; the Greek word sōtēria and the Hebrew yeshu'ah. The significant connection in all three words is in its meaning, which the Oxford Dictionary has defined thoroughly, “preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss; deliverance from sin and its consequences.” The essence therefore is to be saved, salvaged, or redeemed.
Running head: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity Andrea Reid Liberty University David Entwistle’s book Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity: An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Model of Integration (2010) is in regards to the history of faith and science. The perception of whether Christianity and psychology can co-mingle with having different views but both disclosing the same goal and understanding the past and how worldviews and discipline has shaped civilization. As we take this enlightening journey through history of coming full circle we must take a look at Christianity and Psychology and its meaning. “For Christian, Christianity provides a worldview from which to understand the nature of the world and the nature of humanity” (p. 11) and the “Psychology functions as a science only as it uses the scientific method in application to its subject” (p. 41). Entwistle would like his readers to mediate on what appears to be a conflict between psychology and Christianity dating back to 1543 when Nicholaus Copernicus published “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” referring to the theory heliocentric and 1612 when Galileo revisited the heliocentric theory before being barred in 1616 of his teachings.
4-Mat Review of Entwistle’s Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity Karen Cauthen Liberty University Summary David Entwistle’s Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity interrogates then responds to, “What tangible difference does it make in one’s life and practice to be a psychologist who is a devoted follower of Christ?” and “Is integration necessary?” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 17). Entwistle challenges readers to examine self worldviews, as well as, those of others by considering “What does it mean to be a person? What is the nature of the world? What’s wrong with the world and why do things go wrong? How can what is wrong with the world and what is wrong with my life, be fixed?” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 68).
Biblical critics argue that the story, told in the Bible, should not be taken literally. In fact, to my knowledge, there is an approach, which advocates the study of the Bible on 3 levels: literal, historical, and spiritual. Somehow, what the critics say is that the historical sequence of events might be
Worldview Assignment – Apologetics 104 By: V’Londa Taylor A worldview is described as the basis for decision-making among mankind. It is the view in which the world is seen based on learned revelations and our various exposures. Worldviews are individual and everyone has one (Weider & Gutierrez 2013, p. 58). Through the lens of the biblical/Christian Worldview, five primary questions can be answered. First, the question of origin; where did we and the world around us come from.
Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity Liberty University Summary This is my book review of Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, by David N. Entwistle. This book, as noted on the cover, introduces its readers to worldview issues. “The term worldview came into the English language as a translation of the German Weltanschauung,” which might loosely be translated as “life perspective” or “confessional vision”. The definition of worldview provided by the text states “a worldview is a set of presuppositions which we hold about the basic make-up of the world” (pg. 56).
Backus and Chapian (2000) discuss how the fruit of a person stems from what they believe, so if a person believes an error the actions and behavior will be based off what he believe. According to Backus misbelief is the self-talk, the stinking thinking that people have. The thoughts that people tend to dwell on and relive constantly in their mind is misbelief the concept of self-talk. Dr. Adams approach to counseling is founded on the word “of God”. Adams references scripture throughout the process of his theory but he specifically references 2 Timothy 3:14-17 pertaining to change.
Christian Worldview and the Scientific Method A worldview is a collection of presuppositions, convictions and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life (MacArthur, 2006). In this day and age the Earth has vast number of religions and cultures each pertaining and subscribing to their own worldviews. These views range from different forms of Christianity to a completely secular vision of the world. This paper will outline the scientific method, how it is used to gain knowledge and truth, different ways to obtain knowledge, and human nature’s influence over how they seek knowledge truth through a Christian worldview perspective. Scientific Method The father of empiricism, Sir Francis Bacon, is credited with establishing and popularizing the scientific method as an inquiry into natural phenomena (Delaney, 2012).
Examine the strengths and weaknesses of the argument for the existence of God based on religious Experience? The argument for the existence of God using the idea of religious experience is an a posteriori argument in the sense that it is based on people’s personal encounters and experiences with God. As opposed to other ontological arguments, this argument is based on a direct link to God - because if we can show that God is experienced then we surely cannot deny his existence. In this essay, I am planning on examining the different strengths and weakness of Within the classic account of experiences (The Varieties of Religious Experience, XVI), William James identified four common characteristic to prove the existence of religious experiences and feeling from transcendent beings in the material world. Such experiences are indefinable; this is due to the fact that, they are so uncommon that it is almost impossible to define the feeling in ordinary terms as.