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Postmodernism presents a challenge to the Christian view of epistemology. What are some practical ways you, as a Christian educator, can respond to this challenge?
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As a Christian educator I would respond by giving examples of how Postmodernism does not deal with reality. For instance, what you feel is not always the way it should be or the way that it is. I can “feel” like a giraffe in Africa but in reality I am not. Or you can feel like Jesus does not exist but in reality he does. Postmodernism is like creating a fake world around you in order to satisfy your emotions and opinions.
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As an educator we can point out the key laws of nature that always stand no matter what we ‘feel’. Like the laws of gravity, the laws of math, etc. I doesn’t matter that I may ‘feel’ like I can defy gravity, I will never be able to do it.
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In postmodernism, all religion, including Christianity, is reduced to the level of opinion. Christianity asserts that it is unique and that it does matter what we believe. Sin exists, sin has consequences, and anyone ignoring those truths has to face those consequences, Christians say. Scripture presents God’s truth as objective, absolute, universal, and eternal. It discloses knowledge about the nature of God, humanity, salvation, ethics, history, that we can teach our students.
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Keep reading bible and scriptures is the best way to understand and to be close to God.
Reading the scriptures keep us safe and far away form certain ideologies that are not part of God plans
and they just took us far apart from him. We have to have faith and trust in God. -
Go back to the Bible where it says “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence not seen.” God has given us so many answers to life and the vast universe in His word. Also, in the word it says and seek a thing out. God wants us to interact with Him and the universe by researching and learning more.
There is so much that Scientist have discovered, but there is so much more that still needs to be uncovered and discovered.