Julie Fifield
CWV 101
November 19, 2016
Jeff Jibben
Gospel Essentials
The Christian worldview is a view that is based around God the creator of the universe.
This view is different from others such as Atheism or Pantheism, which do not believe in the
afterlife or that God is the creator of the universe.
A Christian believes in one God, who also is a
personal God, as well as a relational, which is the creator and sustainer of the universe. (“Lecture
1,”2015).
A person with a Christian worldview lives a life by following the teaching Jesus, and
has a personal relationship with God.
The essential of the Christian worldview is the
resurrection of Christ.
God is all mighty and all-powerful.
He is the creator of the heavens and earth and all that
encompasses it. “God is to be feared, known and loved as the sovereign Creator of the universe,
whom all the glory, honor and praise belong to” (Diffey, 2015). In God’s sovereignty He either
causes or allows things to happen.
In the Christian worldview the belief is that in six 24-hour
days the universe was created.
On the sixth day man was created.
“God then created the Garden
of Eden and told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, “for
when you eat from it you will certainly die”(Gen, 1-2 NIV).
Because Eve ate from the tree of
knowledge death was brought into the world.
But because of God’s love for the world he sent
his only Son to pay for our sins.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
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characteristics used to describe God are love, grace, righteous, merciful, infinite, wisdom and
unchanging.
In the Christian worldview God is seen as the Trinity, which is three persons in one.
