PERSONAL WORLDVIEW

Personal Worldview

Introduction

The real existence of God as Supreme, Beginning and End of man and the universe created and essentially different from the creatures, can be known with certainty by the real reason, because human intelligence has a natural ability to rise to knowledge of his Creator. Many patristic theologians have developed a variety of arguments that demonstrate the existence of God. This is because the proposition 'God exists', from the point of view of human knowledge, is a proposition mediate need of rational demonstration, but such a proposition is itself immediate reference to be absolute and groundless (Barfield, 1997).

Discussion

Philosophical Theology

Humans have always been attracted by the beauty and majesty of nature, but it invites us to look deeper. It is as if God is hiding behind every tree, under every rock, on every hill, across each meadow, at the bottom of each lake, through every cloud, every bird wings, in the eyes of each animal. It is as if God is playing hide and seek with us and waiting to discover the One in all. The image of God in which we were created has been damaged by sin. We all share a fallen, sinful nature, and degenerative consequences. It is impossible for us, trusting in our own strength, to reject the demands of our nature. Inherit the tendency to sin. God in Christ reconciled the world to Him and by His Spirit restores in penitent mortals the image of its Creator. Forgive us our sins, freeing us from the burden of guilt and shame, and restores us to fellowship (Hawthorne, 2010).

Epistemology

In a broad term, epistemology is the study of knowledge. This statement carries many problems and questions. Narrowly construed formal epistemology is a methodological approach to traditional analytic epistemology. According to this view, the aim of formal epistemology is ...