CE501 - Biblical Worldview and Education: An In-Depth Analysis

This essay delves into the concept of a biblical worldview, defining it as an individual's perspective on life, influenced by faith, culture, and beliefs. It explores the factors shaping worldviews, including culture, education, and religion. The essay addresses key questions about the origin of life, the existence of God, and the afterlife, comparing various worldviews: Christ-centered, humanistic, Australian indigenous, and naturalistic. The Christ-centered worldview, rooted in Christianity, emphasizes the Bible's teachings. Humanistic views prioritize human dignity and science, while the Australian indigenous worldview is based on cultural practices. Naturalism focuses on the physical universe. The essay compares these views, ultimately reflecting on the author's alignment with a Christ-centered perspective and highlighting the importance of understanding diverse worldviews. The essay concludes by reaffirming the author's faith and the significance of biblical principles.

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Biblical worldview and education
Name
Institution

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Biblical worldview and education
The term biblical worldview can be summarized as the way human beings look at life.
This is the way people perceive life both from the Christian or biblical point of view or in the
humanitarian view, depending on their faith and cultural believes and norms. It is evidenced that
everyone has his way of thinking about the origin of life and the supernatural creatures like
mountains, rivers, and others, thus depending on their faith since most of the people try to
explain life in science form as others use the biblical view. Therefore, it depends on the
individual's faith.
One's worldview can be formed and controlled by one of the following factors that culture,
education, religious beliefs, emotions, and the bible. A good number believes the bible of that
God wrote it, so they choose to believe in it while others are bound to their cultural practices and
beliefs (Mkono, 2016).
Based on the differences in the worldviews, the key four questions which have been
frequently asked to explain or find the best understanding of the worldviews are mentioned as
follows;
 Is God the creator of the world and rules the universe?
 What is the origin of mankind?
 Is life after death real?
 Does God exist
The above mentioned key questions in explaining and understanding of the worldviews have
been closely linked to the views like Christ-centered, bible-based, humanistic, Australian
indigenous, and others.

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Christ-centered, bible-based
The Christ-centered worldviews are closely linked to Christianity. Thus the way Christians
believe in the existence of God and the origin of humans. Christianity is a comprehensive and the
way of life that grows out of Christian's reflection on the bible teachings and guidance and the
plans (Jackson, 2018).
Based on the big four questions, the Christ-centered worldview believes in the existence of
God and life after death, as specified in the bible. They always get their answers to the big four
questions from reading the bible as they believe the bible is the solution for every question or
problem the world might be currently undergoing (White & Kirkpatrick, 2020). Following the
story of creation thus, according to the bible, book of Genesis, a man was created on the sixth
day hence giving the question on the origin of mankind. The book also explains or accounts for
the origin of supernatural things on earth as it gives the creation story from day one to the sixth
day when a man was created (Reber, 2019).
Humanistic view
Humanistic believes in human dignity and science; therefore is outlaws the four key
questions of human origin, the existence of God, life after death, and the issue of supernatural
beings (Ronen, 2018). The humanistic beliefs in science and, in most cases, applies scientific
theories and views in explaining the big four questions. For instance, the humanistic belief in the
evolution theory of mankind where man was once an ape-like creature and later evolved to the
upright man (Nieminen, et al., 2017).The humanistic base their arguments concerning the big
four questions on science inventions and discoveries theory have no relation with the non-
scientific theories like the bible centered view (Kopnina, 2018).

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Humanistic does not believe in life after death but rather believes that once one dies, it will
rot and decompose, therefore adding fertility to the soil, and that will be the end of its existence.
Since the existence of God cannot be explained scientifically, humanistic does not account for
the existence of God but rather accounts for the development of creatures like mountains and
rivers using geographical theories (Nilsson & Jost, 2017). Humanistic have been using their
scientific developments and technologies in solving human problems due to believes in human
dignity and science.
World problems like tsunami, volcanoes, and diseases are being handled from the science
point of view as compared to the bible centered view where prayers form part of the solutions to
human problems like diseases.
Australian indigenous view
The Australian indigenous worldview is rooted in the cultural practices and beliefs where
most of the people believed in traditional norms and practices in answering the big four
questions (Palmer, 2018). Indigenous cultures are believed to survive around the globe in
communities that are defined by environmental factors rather than geopolitical boundaries. The
Australian indigenous view has various principles which guide the activities and way of life
within the community. For instance, the seventh generation principle, respect, tolerance, and
humility principles are the core values of the indigenous view (Yap & Yu, 2016).
Based on the big four questions, indigenous people believe in life after death and believe in
the presence of God through other gods that could connect them to God in times of calamities.
They never believed in the bible as the Christ-centered view; rather, they practiced their religion
in which they worshipped their gods by offerings and prayers to them.

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Naturalism view
Naturalism view believes in non-existence other than the physical universe, which they
can see (Walsh, 2018). The view contradicts every view by not believing in the existence of God,
life after death, bible, and origin of mankind. naturalistic never neither believed in God nor life
after death since they cannot see, and no one has ever met God or experienced life after death to
confirm for them; hence they view it as just a theory that intends to create fears to people (Joyce,
2016). They believe in science and technology as their theories and solutions are evidenced and
can be seen, unlike other theories. Such people are the atheists who do not go to church or have
any religion or culture due to their strong belief of non-existence other than the universe (Paden,
2017).
They are ever trying to figure out the reality in the existence of the world through scientific
inventions. Their view on the big four questions is linked to their scientist inventions like the
origin of mankind; they believe in biological means of procreation through fertilization and
omits the theory of creation as believed by the Christians (Zargar, Azadegan & Nabavi, 2019).

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Comparison of the worldviews
Big four questions Worldviews
Christ-
centered
Humanistic Australian
indigenous
Naturalism
Is God the creator of
world and rules the
universe?
Believes in
God as the
creator and
ruler of the
universe
Believes in
human
dignity and
science
Believes in God
and other gods
Believe in non
existence of God
What is the origin of
mankind?
Man was
created on the
sixth day by
God
Man evolved
from ape like
creatures
Man was created
by God
Believes in
biological theory
of procreation
Is life after death
real?
Believes in
eternal life
No life after
death
When one dies, he
joins the ancestors
in monitoring the
community thus
life after death
Death is the end of
human life
Does God really
exist?
God is
omnipresent
God does not
exist
God exists Does not recognize
the existence of
God

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Critical reflection
To reflect on the four identified worldviews, thus, concerning the big four questions on life,
Christ-centered worldviews stand the best views among the four, thus following my worldview
as I believe in Christianity and the existence of God. The humanistic and the naturalism theory
are both playing an important role in human life due to their scientific views.
The Australian indigenous view has been affected by the political factors, thus following
political influence in their cultural activities. Education and civilization has also impacts the
cultural believes and norms of individuals and the community as a whole. Therefore, the four
discussed worldviews differ based on the individual's beliefs and take on life.
Conclusion
Personally, my worldview approach aligns with the Christi- centered, biblically-based, thus
following my religion, which supports the existence of God and believes in the words and
teaching of the bible. I believe that the bible was written by God through His prophets to guide
mankind in their relations with each other and with God by clearly defining the Ten
Commandments and other rules that we as Christians should follow to inherit the kingdom of
God.
Life after death, thus, is God’s promise of eternal life to the righteous people as a reward to
those who kept His promise. It is the life after death, where one will live again in the presence of
God in heaven. The origin of mankind is clearly stated in the book of Genesis that God created
man and orders him to multiply and fill the earth; therefore, as a Christian, I believe in the
creation as work of God since I am a strong believer in Christ-centered view.

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