Literature Review on Foundations of Bible based Christ Worldview

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1. Description
The main topic of description in this book is the fact how much the God loves the human
beings. It is a known thing that the human beings are considered as the children of God and God
created them in His own image. In this context, it can be said that the God is the father of all the
human beings. Therefore, he has to play the role of a proper father as he takes care of all the
children and protects them from all the evils. God is considered to be a part of the Holy Trinity in
the Christianity (Noble, 2013). The book talks about the great painting of Stedelijk Museum that
is titled as Man, but it is to be countered that the original name of the painting of Karel Apple’s
work was My Father. Generally, the human beings see God as a loving father and bestow utmost
love and respect for Him. It is believed by the human beings that the God is an impersonal being
who is very hard to be seen or known by a human being personally (Bass, 2012).
Sunday is considered to be the day for the mass prayer of God in the churches and
everyone prays to Him seriously for their well-being and the peace in the entire world. In this
book a new point has been added to look at the God. Most of the people desire to build a strong
relationship with Him but it all goes in vain as He cannot be seen by the human beings (Borg &
Wright, 2014). This book tells that the God has created in His image but in a smaller scale than
His. The message of God is love all the fellow human beings but not to hate them and engage
them in hating and killing each other. The earth is the creation of the God and He sent the human
beings into earth to protect His creation (Milne, 2012). The true father of human beings God had
sent the human beings to spread love and respect all over but the selfishness of the human beings
has prevented the human beings from being that kind of beings.
God has always cared for the human beings and gave them all sorts of freedom that they
can expect. The selfishness is an evil that has restricted the human beings from doing the

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common good for the human society (Kastenbaum, 2015). The book depicts the things why the
people in this world always fall into sins. However, this book is not properly addressed to
sexuality but discusses the fact that human beings have to manage themselves before conducting
anything. After reading this book, it can be said that God is very much affectionate for the
human beings since as well as His Son, Jesus Christ (Kasper, 2012). One of the most reasons for
the committing of sin is the grief among the human beings. The author has again and again put
focus on the sorrows of the human beings and said that these sorrows can be easily healed by
God (Noble, 2013).
2. Analysis
In this purpose, the purpose is to analyze the different themes of the book. The main
things that the book deals with are the sinfulness of the human beings and the healing power of
the God. It has been believed that the emotional wounds that the children suffer in their
childhood. This becomes a big barrier for them in order to understand the power of God and His
benevolence (Johnson, 2015). He indeed takes care of all His children but some have
experienced the contrary things. This has become a hollow place in their lives. In the times of
remembering God, many people call Him to be the God but some people hesitate to call Him so
because He is invisible and those human beings cannot see Him. This would be very much
embarrassing for the human beings because they feel uncomfortable for the human beings to call
someone father whom they even cannot see (Johnson, 2015).
In Bible, it has been depicted and said that God has given the human beings the power to
call the people to be His children who have believed in Him and believed that He has all the
powers to control the activities of the human beings (Fee & Stuart, 2014). The children of God
must believe that Jesus came into this earth as the son of God and he was crucified by the

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betrayers and then he was resurrected. This incident proves that Jesus was resurrected to free the
mankind of their sins. The ‘broken spirit’ of the human beings has resisted themselves from fully
believing the existence of God. Any person who has been brought up in his home and family as
a forgotten one and the most ignored one, gets a feeling that he is no longer needed in this world.
Thus he also believes that no good can be done to him in this context. So, he becomes desolate
and tries to find the way to escape from this earthly creation of God (Edwards, 2014). Then
comes the turn of God to save him from this static condition and give him a proper life to lead
and escape from life is not a proper way to end the miseries.
A person who has been tortured by his or her father from childhood starts to become
afraid of the father and does not respond to the father in a proper way. This is where the
emotional wounds or the ‘broken spirit’ comes into play. The stories of Michal, David and others
have revealed the fact that the human beings must not be engaged in committing selfish acts just
because they had been victims of the same. Jesus has described the God to be merciful,
compassionate, kind, forgiving and a loving father (Talbott, 2014). This is why God never
disappoints any of His followers; rather he embraces each of them by forgiving their sins and led
them to the way of salvation (Parton, 2015). Jesus was believed to be God in the form of a
human being. The story that is narrated in the book about the Jewish children, whose mothers
wanted that Jesus should bless their children, puts forth the belief that Jesus has always taken
care of His children, either invisibly or in the form of a human being as well.
3. Personal reflection
In this segment, I would like to venture my points of view about the topic of the book. As
the topic of the book goes about the relevance of God as a loving father, I must say that God

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exists and He takes care of all His children in a positive way. He may take tests of patience and
endurance of His followers and He wants to see how they behave in the cases of complexity. I
think this will be very much justified for the followers of God to pass through this endurance
test. I have read the book thoroughly enough to understand that the God is very much benevolent
and looks after all the miseries of the human beings and tries to solve them. His aim is to drive
the activities of the human beings in such a way that they can attain salvation.
Jesus was believed to be the God himself as well as the Son of God. The incidents that he
came up with prove that his heart was filled with pity and compassion. As the Jewish people
hated the Samaritans, Jesus spoke to a Jewish woman who was thought to be the despicable
person. I think through this act of kindness, God sent his message that He cares for every human
being. I have also read examples from the Bible where Jesus has spread His love throughout the
world. This works as the evidence for the God to shower His blessings and sympathy for all of
the human beings in the same manner. The treatment of Jesus to the Samaritan woman has
reflected us the way in which we never thought of seeing God. The benevolence of God has been
reflected in the way god has been represented in this story. I believe God has kept some positive
things for each and everyone in this world. Those positive points have to be found out by
committing good deeds and not committing any sins.
The sinfulness of the human beings leads them towards damnation. The human beings
have to do the best things by the virtue of which they will be relieved of their sins. They must get
rid of their evil intentions in real time and get indulged in doing well for the entire humanity. I
think the human beings begin their lives as the little children who are entirely dependent on the
others. This dependence shoves away slowly as they get matured and get adults. I believe that
God designed the lives of the human beings in a way that the little children should grow up and

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feel the love of their fathers. This fact will be reflected as they begin to blessings of love from
God by getting good results in the works they undertake. I should conclude this paper by saying
that God is benevolent and takes care of all His children.

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