wSelf Interview Throughout this course, I get to understand and become stronger with my core of belief after interview myself with my Christian worldview learning. The learning includes characteristic of God and who He is, the nature of this universe, the human being and what happen to us when we dies, the question of right and wrong, the purpose or pointless of our life, or the consistency of our worldview of each of us or through life-changing.
If we want to know or question who is God? Rather try to prove of His existence, we learn who He is through the nature, the work of God, and through his character. All of His characteristic show in omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence, justice, love, immutability, and in the Names of God. For example, through nature God exist everywhere and anywhere (Psalm 139:7-12), He is infinite (1 Timothy 1:17), and knows everything (Isaiah 40:28). We might not able to understand of His Works, but He created the world (Genesis 1:1) and judge the world (Revelation 20:11-15). Through the Bible, we know some characteristics of God such as loving, truthful, show compassion, mercy, judges in, and offers forgiveness. As Jesus Christ said “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), why question Jesus identity is so important? The most important is that Jesus is the God, “He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2), if not for his death we would not have been able to pay for our penalty and the sins of the world. Jesus is the God because he the only one could make amends for our debt and die for us. For Christian worldview, God who created human beings in His image and He made us resemble some in Him but not all the ways. This is where He allows us to have some comprehended of Him and His immense and design of complex. Our human nature also got some reflects of God’s characteristics, although those reflect characteristics are limited, on finite scale. We are made in the image of the God who is love us (1 John 4:16). We reflect His Nature because we are created in His image, and we can compassionate, reliable, truthful, kindly, patient, even though these characteristics are deformed by sin, which still exist in our human nature. When its came to death, people will wonder and question what happens after they death some point in their life. The life after death is actually important with our belief in the existence and not existence of the afterlife. It plays the basis role for a person’s worldview. In the Bible mention if there is no life after death, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:32) and if there life after death, “But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear Him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him” (Luke 12:5). Life after death, whether there or not, which it connected to one belief if God is there or not. Naturally, as the Christian belief Jesus Christ as Savior, faith and grace alone, then you will spend an eternity in heaven, or you spend an eternity in hell if not (Mathew 25: 46). In the reality of life, the right and wrong question is the debate that some people believe there is no right or wrong, there only the opinions and perception of each individual. One view think that nobody right or wrong, whatever each individual feel or think it right or wrong in that situation. Some others believe that there is certain absolute truth or not truth. In which the actions are determine to be either right or wrong by those absolute standards. For example, our conscience tells us that there is something wrong with rape, murder, pain, suffering, and evil that makes us want to strive the positives thing like love, generosity, or compassion, in which it the universal true in all of the cultures. That why everything happen in life has a purpose and all the events that happen around us had a purpose. Everything of these events happened in life has the purpose for it and God allow it to happen whether it good or bad. In which it comfort our life with the way God permits of certain things, where we have to made choice of this certain things and how we live our life. These choice will be determine where our life will be after death, whether it heaven or hell depend on our choice. “Those who have been made righteous by faith in Christ will go into eternal life in heaven, but those who reject Christ as Savior will be sent to eternal punishment in hell” (Matthew 24: 46). There is a personal question that I tend to ask myself quite often when I struggle and suffering in which the answers is consistent with my Christian worldview. Sometime I ask myself where we actually come from or why are we here on this Earth? After a long time of study and learn from the Bible, I came to find an answer from the Bible “We are God’s creation, designed to govern the world and fellowship with Him” (Genesis 1:27-28). At the end, each individual of us have our own conclusion of where we are and where we stand in our worldview. The worldview included who God is and his characteristic, the nature of this universe, the human being and what happen to us when we dies, the question of right and wrong, the purpose or pointless of our life, or the consistency of our worldview of each of us or through life-changing. As for me, after a long deep thought and self interview it help me to understand and know where my weakness of my core belief and become stronger in faith and trust in God with my Christian