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Worldviews & Eschatology

Worldviews & Eschatology. African Worldview. God. Ancestral Realm. Material World. African Spiritual Worldview. Ancestral spirits influence everyday life God is obscure to humanity At death one joins the ancestral spirits Circular history through children Distant God or gods.

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Worldviews & Eschatology

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  1. Worldviews & Eschatology

  2. African Worldview God Ancestral Realm Material World

  3. African Spiritual Worldview • Ancestral spirits influence everyday life • God is obscure to humanity • At death one joins the ancestral spirits • Circular history through children • Distant God or gods

  4. Hindu Worldview gods Brahman Material World

  5. Hindu Internal Worldview • Gods are primarily powers of nature • Gods is not separate from creation • Brahman (universal spirit) exists in the world • Cyclical history, life, death, reincarnation, new existence • Multiple gods

  6. Deistic Worldview God Material World

  7. Deistic Natural Worldview • God created the world and set it to run by natural law • God does not intervene miraculously • God is separate from the world • Some of the founding fathers of America held this view • Linear view of history • Uninvolved God

  8. Secular Worldview Big Bang Material World

  9. Secular Atheistic Worldview • Non-personal source for existence of world • Accidental formation by explosion over time • Basic elements combined, evolved and mutated to form current world • World will rundown • Linear history • No God

  10. New Age Worldview Mystical Realm Material World Spiritual Aspects

  11. New Age Natural/Mystical Worldview • World and God or gods are intertwined • God(s) exist in all things and beings (pantheism) • Each thing and person is a part of god(s) • God(s) is the creation • Mixture of eastern mysticism and western scientific speculation • We are god(s)

  12. Christian Worldview God & Spiritual Realm Material Realm

  13. Christian Relational Worldview • World created by a personal God • Purposeful creation • God continues to interact with His creation • God acts and people respond • People exist in a relationship with God • Linear material world to eternal existence • God is “I Am”

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