The goal of a Christian is to develop a close relationship with God through (Word of God) the ministry of Jesus Christ and by the aid of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the anointed one from God the Father who came to this world, to fulfill the Old Testament laws and prophecies. Jesus performed miracles which are recorded in the Gospels by the eyewitnesses. Christianity teaches that there is one God, one faith and one baptism; it teaches that God made the universe, the earth and He created Adam and Eve and that God created man in His image, that mean God’s character. That means every person is made in God’s image and likeness.
Christians believe that everything that exists, is the result of God. The Bible states in Genesis 1:1, that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning. 2 Peter 1:21 says that Moses who wrote Genesis while being inspired by the Holy Spirit, says that God is the creator of all living things. Almost all Christian churches teach that God is the trinity and was the major benefactor in the creation of mankind and the universe. What does it mean to be human and are we more important than animals?
The belief that Jesus died on the cross for our sins was initiated as Jesus promoted he was sent to Earth by God to save humankind. To reflect on Jesus’ death in one way, one may examine and understand the importance of the death of Jesus by seeing Jesus’ selflessness. The belief of the resurrection is exemplified in the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed testifies the
The universe exists, therefore; the universe has a cause of its existence. If the universe has a cause of its existence, then that cause is God. Therefore; God exists. Moreover, the world has too much design and the movement and cause of it is unnatural to be created from nothing, so something must have created it, God! Furthermore, Christians believe in God because of the 3 things; ‘Opeth’, message from God to his people, ‘Mopeth’ when God acts on behalf of his people and ‘Pele’ God’s sovereignty.
All human beings seek to be rational in what they do. Yes, science does provide a method of justifying rationality but God is the other part of the spectrum that science cannot explain. God is also another figure that provides rationality to someone who does not understand science the only path to salvation and to rationality is through religion. If this form of God takes 1000 different shapes across many religions, it does not make God untrue, it is just a manifestation. The biggest contradictory idea against the motion would be that of whether God can be proven empirically.
Dewey vs. Jesus Anthony Mayson EDUC 305 Dewey vs. Jesus Contrast the ideas of Dewey to the teaching of Christ. John Dewey was a great philosopher and was also a pioneer for education. He stated that value was a function neither of whim nor purely of social construction, but a quality situated in events. When it came to religious views Dewey honored the important functions that religious institutions and practices played in human life, but he rejected belief in any static ideal, such as a personal God. Dewey felt that only scientific method could reliably increase human good.
The argument is one of a posteriori, arrived by observation of the world. The basic premise of the argument is that given the perceived complexity, order, and purpose of the universe, one can infer that it must have been created by some intelligent designer. This designer is what we acknowledge to be ‘God.’ The Teleological Argument is most often used to prove the existence of ‘God,’ although in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion “the question is not concerning the being but the nature of God” (Bratman 93). The Argument of Analogy is most often used to explain and support the Teleological Argument. Cleanthes chooses to compare the world to a machine.
Instead, faith supports reason and perfection; and reason, illuminated by faith, finds strength to raise itself to the knowledge of God. “Reason is defined as logical thinking based on sure, physical, and scientifically provable evidence”(24). Reason operates with strict logic on scientifically observable facts. With reason also comes personal reasoning, where we as humans often make judgments and decisions based on what we perceive or feel. Generally as long as we have reason behind something we believe it.
But more importantly, God has given us a glimpse into His nature by creating man as a reflection of His image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-28). WORLDVIEW 3 The Question of Meaning/Purpose? The biblical worldview is a love story between God and man that unveils the mystery of mans rescue in Christ Jesus (Eph.3: 3-4), which opens his eyes and delivers him from the power of Satan, into the power of God (Acts 26:18). This power was demonstrated by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death into life, and now works in those who know Him (Eph.1: 15-23; Jn. 5:24; 17:3).
Man was created with moral and spiritual capacities, among other things, from God so that we may understand our identity as His creation. “Theists believe that the purpose of mankind is to know God” (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011, p. 60). The Bible, according to Christians, is just one tool through which God speaks to man. In John 17:3 and Leviticus 19:37 we see just a few examples of God’s purpose for mankind. God also has standards for man regarding morality and/or ethics.