Kenneth Balibalos Kevin Eugenio

What is a Worldview? The Essential Questions Why it Matters? Common Worldviews

WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY A WORLDVIEW

1. How we look at the world around us... basic assumptions that help make sense of reality 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 consequences I 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 Hitle r Its not that far-fetched…. ….a bad or false worldview can have destructive consequences

Postmodernism Naturalism Christian Theism Deis m 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

 Definition: There are NO OBJECTIVE TRUTHS that are true for everyone. Truth is whatever YOU define it to be.

 Is there a right and wrong?  No absolute truth, only subjective  Is there a God?  Depends……  What is the purpose of life?  Depends……  What is man?  Depends……  What happens to life after death?  Depends….

 One major problem with postmodernism is that it’s self-refuting.  It’s self-refuting, because in the very saying of it proves that it is false.  Self-refuting statements are necessarily false; you can’t get around it.  Like the statement “there are no English sentences longer than 3 words.” The statement falsifies itself.  “There is no such thing as absolute truth.” You hear this a lot. Do you see the self- refutation there? That in itself is claiming to be the absolute truth.  “All we know has been constructed by society, and therefore it is not absolute.” That statement in itself was constructed by society, and therefore is not absolute.

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