Name - Justin Thomas
Course - CWV-101
Date – 2/13/19
Instructor – Michelle Pasley
Benchmark - Gospel Essentials
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, he formed everything from
nothing. He created man from dust in his image so we would be able to have a relationship with
him. From man, he removed his rib and created woman. Because we were created in his image,
he allows us to look at our characteristics and see how his traits are that ultimately allow us to
have a deeper relationship with him. Because he gave man free will, man can choose not to
follow God and have eternal salvation with him. When people have different worldviews, they
will have different views on how they see God. This is designed to describe God according to a
Christian worldview and give relevant insights while we examine the characteristics of God and
creation.
God
Trying to describe God is impossible unless a person has a personal relationship with
him. God is omnipresent, he is everywhere all at the same time. He is three parts in one God, the
Holy Spirit, Jesus. Three different parts but one all at the same time. God cannot be near sin, and
the wage of sin is death. Jesus was born and was crucified to pay the price for all sin so we can
have eternal life with God. The Holy Spirit is the bridge to connect our spirit to his. So, unless
our spirit chooses him, we cannot have the divinity and worldview needed to believe. Trying to
describe God is like explaining the wind, you cannot see it, but you feel it. You feel the effects of
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the wind and adjust to the temperature change it creates in you by being around it. Someone who
shares a different worldview or belief would be standing in the wind and would not feel any
brees at all. Not because it does not exist but because they are choosing not to acknowledge that
it is there.
Humanity
Our human nature is the ultimate example of Gods design, man was created in his image.
Because we are created in his image, our humanity gives us all of his characteristics. The first
part of our humanity is our personality, genealogical makeup.
He designed humans to be fruitful
and multiply, to rule over the birds of the air, fish in the seas and over every living thing that
moves on the earth (Genesis 1:28). The second part is the fall of humanity, God specifically said,
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17). Adam
