Worldviews & Eschatology. African Worldview God Ancestral Realm Material World.

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Worldviews & Eschatology

African Worldview God Ancestral Realm Material World

African Spiritual Worldview 4 Ancestral spirits influence everyday life 4 God is obscure to humanity 4 At death one joins the ancestral spirits 4 Circular history through children 4 Distant God or gods

Hindu Worldview gods Brahman Material World

Hindu Internal Worldview 4 Gods are primarily powers of nature 4 Gods is not separate from creation 4 Brahman (universal spirit) exists in the world 4 Cyclical history, life, death, reincarnation, new existence 4 Multiple gods

Deistic Worldview God Material World

Deistic Natural Worldview 4 God created the world and set it to run by natural law 4 God does not intervene miraculously 4 God is separate from the world 4 Some of the founding fathers of America held this view 4 Linear view of history 4 Uninvolved God

Secular Worldview Big Bang Material World

Secular Atheistic Worldview 4 Non-personal source for existence of world 4 Accidental formation by explosion over time 4 Basic elements combined, evolved and mutated to form current world 4 World will rundown 4 Linear history 4 No God

New Age Worldview Material World Spiritual Aspects Mystical Realm

New Age Natural/Mystical Worldview 4 World and God or gods are intertwined 4 God(s) exist in all things and beings (pantheism) 4 Each thing and person is a part of god(s) 4 God(s) is the creation 4 Mixture of eastern mysticism and western scientific speculation 4 We are god(s)

Christian Worldview God & Spiritual Realm Material Realm

Christian Relational Worldview 4 World created by a personal God 4 Purposeful creation 4 God continues to interact with His creation 4 God acts and people respond 4 People exist in a relationship with God 4 Linear material world to eternal existence 4 God is “I Am”