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On behalf of the Church of God of Prophecy

On behalf of the Church of God of Prophecy . Bible Study at Tubbs Road Harlesden, London, NW10 4SD 0208 965 5911 | 07956 872 141 | errol@comf5.com Mondays & Thursdays 7:30pm - 9:30pm Watch it live at: www.cogop.com By Pastor Errol A Williams Regional Overseer, London North.

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On behalf of the Church of God of Prophecy

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  1. On behalf of the Church of God of Prophecy

  2. Bible Study at Tubbs Road Harlesden, London, NW10 4SD 0208 965 5911 | 07956 872 141 |errol@comf5.com Mondays & Thursdays 7:30pm - 9:30pm Watch it live at: www.cogop.com By Pastor Errol A Williams Regional Overseer, London North

  3. Paterology THEOLOGY PROPER The study of God the Father

  4. World Views

  5. Worldview What kind of sunglasses do you wear? Everything that you look at is affected by your sunglasses!

  6. Worldview A worldview is something through which you view everything that affects everything.

  7. What is a worldview? “The sum total of a person’s answers to the most important questions in life.” Ronald Nash

  8. Worldview Types of questions that make up a worldview: Theological - God Anthropological - Man Metaphysical - Things Epistemological - Knowledge Ethical - Right & wrong

  9. Worldview • Types of questions that make up a worldview: • Theological questions • Is there a God? • Who are what is God? • What is his relationship to the universe?

  10. Worldview • Types of questions that make up a worldview: • Anthropological questions • What is man? • Are human actions free or determined? • Is man essentially good, evil, or neutral? • What happens after death?

  11. Worldview • Types of questions that make up a worldview: • Metaphysical questions • Is there something? Is everything just an illusion? • Why is there something rather than nothing?

  12. Worldview • Types of questions that make up a worldview: • Epistemological questions • What is truth? • Can truth be known? • How is knowledge attained?

  13. Worldview • Types of questions that make up a worldview: • Ethical questions • Are there moral laws? • What is the basis for moral laws? Is the basis nature, survival of the fittest, instinct or God? • Do laws apply to all people?

  14. Worldview • Seven basic worldviews • Theism • Deism • Naturalism • Pantheism • Panentheism • Polytheism • Pluralism

  15. Theism • Theistic worldview that believes that an eternal God freely created all of existence (time, space, matter, celestial realms and bodies) out of nothing (ex nihilo) and that he continues to act within the creation in varying degrees. • Adherents: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

  16. Theism Timeless EternityGOD (ontos)Transcendence Creation out of nothing (ex nihilo) Time-bound EternityGODImmanence Heaven New Heaven & New Earth Man Angels Every Created Thing

  17. Theism • Theological: God is the creator of the universe and He exists beyond it and He acts within it. • Anthropological: Man is created in the image of God and finds his dignity in this image. • Metaphysical: There is something and an infinite creator is responsible for creating all that there is. He is completely separate from creation and created it out of His own good pleasure, not out of necessity. • Epistemological: Truth is absolute, has its ground in God, and is acquired primarily through general and specific revelation. • Ethical: Moral laws do exist and apply to all people of all times having their basis in God.

  18. Deism • Theistic worldview that believes God created the universe, but has not been involved in it since. • Adherents: Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Theistic Evolutionists (though not all.)

  19. Deism Timeless EternityGOD (ontos)Transcendence Creation out of nothing (ex nihilo) Time-bound Eternity Every Created Thing

  20. Deism • Theological: God is the creator of the universe and He exists beyond it but does not concern himself with it any longer. • Epistemological: Truth is absolute, has its ground in God, and is acquired primarily through general revelation. • Ethical: Moral laws do exist and apply to all people of all times having their basis in nature • Anthropological: Man is created neutral, neither good nor bad and gains dignity through his actions. His eternal destiny is determined by his actions. • Metaphysical: There is something and an infinite creator is responsible for creating all that there is.

  21. Pantheism • Lit. pan “all” theism “god.” Theistic worldview that believes that God is identical with the universe. • Adherents: Hindus, Zen Buddhists, Christian Scientists, Spinoza.

  22. Pantheism Time-bound EternityGodImmanence Every Created Thing

  23. Pantheism • Theological: All is God and God is all. God is impersonal and immanent, being in no sense transcendent. • Epistemological: The only truth is that which is found in the Real and beyond our understanding. Sense, experience and reason are misleading since they are based an illusions. • Ethical: Moral laws are part of the illusions of this life and have no basis in the Real. In God there is neither good nor evil. • Anthropological: Man is part of the Real. Self realisation will help one work off bad karma through a process of reincarnation until he unites with the Real in Nirvana thereby losing any sense of individuality. • Metaphysical: All is an illusion except the oneness of the Real (God)

  24. Panentheism • Lit. pan “all” en “in” theism “god.” Theistic worldview that believes that the universe is a part of who God is, but is not all that God is. • Adherents: Charles Harthstone, Alfred North Whitehead, Process Theologians, Open Theists (to a certain degree.).

  25. Panentheism Please note: Wherever you have time you have by necessity change. You cannot be in time and not have change, because change is defined by time. They are inseparable. If you have God in his ontos (being) in time then you have a changing God, who is learning, developing and getting better all the time. Some will go on to suggest that God did not know as much today has He did earlier. Hence, process theologians.

  26. Panentheism Timeless EternityGOD (ontos)Transcendence Time-bound EternityGod (ontos)Immanence Everything

  27. Panentheism • Theological: God is finite and is undergoing change and development along with the universe. The universe is in God although God is more than the universe. • Epistemological: Truth is developing and is acquired primarily through nature. • Ethical: Moral laws do not exist, since morals are changing as God is changing. • Anthropological: Man is part of God as cells are a part of the body. Man will live forever as a part of the memory of God. • Metaphysical: There is something and this something, the universe, is a part of God and, therefore, necessarily exists.

  28. Polytheism • Lit. poly “many” theism “god.” Theistic worldview that believes that there are many gods. • Adherents: Ancient religions, Hinduisms, Zen Buddhists, Mormons.

  29. Polytheism Time-bound Eternitygods Immanence Heaven Man Angels Every Created Thing

  30. Polytheism • Theological: There are many finite gods that are immanent within the universe and are not transcendent above it. • Epistemological: Truth is acquired through revelation of the deities and, therefore, it is relative. • Ethical: Absolute moral laws do not exist, since they are determined by the individual gods. • Anthropological: Man is here for the pleasure of the gods and will attain to an afterlife based upon the amount of pleasure he brings to the gods. • Metaphysical: There is something and it has been for all eternity.

  31. Pluralism • Worldview that believes that all beliefs are ultimately true even if they are contradictory. • Adherents: Postmoderns, liberals, all religions that have adopted a postmodern epistemology, New Age philosophies.

  32. Pluralism Naturalists Pantheism Theist Deism God Polytheism Panentheism

  33. Pluralism • Theological: All views of God are true and describe who He is. • Epistemological: Truth is relative. There is no absolute truth and, therefore, no absolute knowledge of truth. • Ethical: Absolute moral laws do not exist, since there is no absolute truth. All moral laws are correct for the individual. • Anthropological: All previous views are correct based upon the relative nature of truth. • Metaphysical: All previous views are correct based upon the relative nature of truth.

  34. Naturalism • Atheistic worldview that believes that nature is the sum total of all reality. • Adherents: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Fred, Bertrand Russell.

  35. Naturalism Time-bound Eternity Everything

  36. Naturalism

  37. Worldviews All beliefs are true Pluralism Yes One or many? One No Immanent or transcendent? Many Polytheism Naturalism Transcendent only Immanent and transcendent Personal or impersonal? Atheism Nihilism Immanent only Pantheism Impersonal Panentheism Personal Theism Deism God?

  38. Worldviews God All beliefs are true Pluralism Yes One or many? One No Immanent & transcendent Many Polytheism Naturalism Transcendent only Immanent and transcendent Personal or impersonal? Atheism Nihilism Immanent only Pantheism Impersonal Panentheism Personal Theism Deism

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