The teaching of the Bible is being lost in today’s generations. Pleasures from this world are destroying and guiding us away from God. Personally, I have been struggling with my faith for the past three years. This class has opened my mind and has helped to have a better and more clear understanding of faith. Learning about the Bible, which I think is essential as it contains the guidelines set for us to help us build a stronger relationship with God and others, has strengthen my faith. The worldviews, absolute truth, and the arguments for God’s existence are three main concepts that have helped me defend and grow confidently in my faith.
Learning about the worldviews broke down my walls of ignorance. We all bring that bias of “only my faith is true,” completely discarding everything without even knowing what these other worldviews believe in. Quoting from John 20:31, “In the world of knowledge the idea of good always appears last of
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To understand that, there must exist and absolute truth, we must know what truth is. Truth is defined as a statement proven to be accepted as truth. People who argue there is no absolute truth ultimately end up in a “Do whatever you want.” Mentality. Truth, morals and values are subjective to them and inevitably leads up to chaos. Believing in this is like saying, “two plus two is not four it is six, or that “a banana is not yellow, it is red”. Everyone who argues that there is no absolute truth is establishing that a truth exists. A strong example of absolute truth is the human conscisous. “Something” is telling us what is right and what is wrong; “something” tells us how certain things are done. Truth has been there since the beginning, and it still exists today. It doesn’t change, it has never change and it will never change. I want to seek truth and investigate the reliability of my beliefs with objectivity, so that I will be able to defend it as people of other views and perspectives defend