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Exploring Faith: Challenges, Worldviews, and the Existence of God

Delve into the reflection on faith and belief, encountering different views that may question your beliefs. Explore worldviews, the existence of God, and how people experience divinity. Discover secularism, materialism, religious fundamentalism, and the purpose of creation stories.

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Exploring Faith: Challenges, Worldviews, and the Existence of God

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  1. Section D –The Question of Faith Chapter 20 Challenges to Faith

  2. Reflection • Reflection means: • serious thought or consideration • thinking deeply about things such as faith and belief • reflecting on one’s faith and what it means • Encountering different views can make a person question their beliefs

  3. Worldview • A set of assumptions a person makes about the world • A way of seeing the world and how it works

  4. Does God Exist? • Yes – theism • No – atheism • I don’t know – agnosticism

  5. How People Experience God • Experiencing God means being aware of the presence of a divinity (God). This can happen in a variety of ways: • through religious ceremonies or rituals • through prayer • at certain times in one’s life • in the everyday through other people

  6. Secularism • Secularism is the view that religion should be kept separate from other aspects of everyday life • Religious matters should not influence everyday life, e.g. government, education, etc.

  7. Materialism • Existence can only be explained through physical matter • Material things are more important than spiritual ones • The greatest good is physical well-being and material success • No place for a higher reality or God • Spiritual life is not important

  8. Religious Fundamentalism • A form of a religion that believes in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture, and sees this interpretation as the only valid one • A strict interpretation of faith • A literal understanding of sacred writings

  9. Creation • Theview that a creator was involved in bringing the world into existence • Religious accounts about the beginning of the world and the beginning of humanity do not have the same purpose as modern scientific ones

  10. Purpose of Creation Stories • They are symbolic • They aim to answer important questions about life, such as: • Why are we here? • Why is the world both good and bad? • What is our responsibility in the world? • Could the answers to these questions have important consequences?

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