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How is Christianity more than just a worldview? Provide some examples.
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The most basic of worldviews will only consider the physical world. Christianity certainly considers the physical, but encompasses it with God, relationship, history, and salvation.
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Christianity is more than a worldview in that it is not just a set of assumptions about the basic makeup of the world. It is also a relationship with God. We do not just hold a philosophical model of the world in our heads. We commune with God, we fellowship with fellow believers.
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A worldview is “a set of assumptions about the basic makeup of the world.” But it is more than that. A worldview is multi-faceted, representing an understanding of the people involved, their philosophy of life, and their view of the nature of reality within their own culture and belief system.
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A worldview is simply our beliefs about the world and truth, but Christianity puts those beliefs into action. Our beliefs stem from our relationship with a risen Savior, and therefore following Christ should help to change other’s worldviews when we as Christians engage the world.
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James 1:22-25 explains that we are to be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Those who continue in it will be blessed in what he does. Christianity is not expected to be a spectator life but requires everyone who accepts Jesus as Lord, to be actionable and live out the word that they hear and read, trusting His Holy Spirit to give guidance and revelation as they do.