Kenneth Balibalos Kevin Eugenio. What is a Worldview? The Essential Questions Why it Matters? Common Worldviews.

Kenneth BalibalosKevin Eugenio

WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY A WORLDVIEW

1. How we look at the world around us...• basic assumptions that help make sense of reality... 2. Nobody is without a worldview• Is it a good one or bad one?3. Govern how we act and the choices we make

ideas have consequences...

According to the video, a worldview is a set of basic assumptions about reality that governs how we act and the choices we make.

What kind of glasses are we wearing?Worldviews determine things like:•Decisions•Life Goals•What we think will make us happy•How we spend our money •How we treat others

Its difficult to live by what you don’t think

We don’t realize that we all have answers to life’s questions

What happens to a person after death…?

IS THERE A RIGHT AND

WRONG?

• People• Media • Religious Upbringing • History • Famous Thinkers and Philosophers• Life Experience• Environment `

Where Do We Get Our Worldview?

Have it Your Way – Impossible is Nothing

– Born This Way - Happiest Place on

Earth - Its My Life -

Individualism and entitlement

Ideas have consequencesI am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of

Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. “ – Victor Frankl

I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality…we will train people before whom the world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence – imperious (dominant), relentless and cruel. - Adolf Hitler

Its not that far-fetched….….a bad or false worldview can have destructive consequences

Postmodernism

Naturalism

Christian Theism

Deism

Nihilism

Existentialism

Naturalism says that: Matter is all there is. We can’t know anything outside the natural world.

So is there God? No Evidence, No God

What is Man? Accidental, arose through evolution, just molecules

What is the Purpose of Life? Self–Preservation or Advancement of species

Is there a Right or Wrong? Social constructs/ No morals

What Happens after Death? Its over dude…

“The scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections – a mere heart of stone. “ – Charles Darwin

“The Universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference” – Richard Dawkins

It involves the belief that many, if not all, apparent realities are only social constructs, as they are subject to change inherent to time and place. Plural and relative Depends on the person We cannot know truth.

Is there a right and wrong? No absolute truth, only subjective

Is there a God? Depends on the person,

What is the purpose of life? Purpose is individually defined.

Problems with Postmodernism

God does exist. We were created in his image Our purpose is to live for God Ultimately, there is a heaven and a life

after thisGalatians 5:22-23 says “the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control….”