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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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Emphasize the importance of faith, of trusting in God when we don’t understand. Also the importance of using the minds that God has given us to ask questions, apply science, think.
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Epistemology is knowing. What can we know and how can we know it? A lot of times if we see it, we believe it. According to the Bible, we have to have faith to believe it and it will be true. We won’t see it but we believe and have faith it will be true. We can’t rely on our feelings but our feelings lie to us. The world says be what you want and do what you want.We can’t do that because we are not made that way. We can count on God and his word to guide us because it is the truth.
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In today’s world, Christians have to remember this is NOT our world, our world is in Heaven with God. The time to go there has not come yet. While we are here on this earth, we have to believe wholeheartedly that we KNOW because of God’s word or because Jesus said it. Even in today’s society, the Bible is the most important road map to believing, learning, worshiping, and Knowing God.
There are times when things happen in this world that take control of our feelings. Is that real? Feelings are not the way to follow Jesus or to gain knowledge. Feelings can cause misjudgment, but turning back to the Bible can explain things in a direct clear light.
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Postmodernism can be confronted by asking it to prove itself, which it cannot without truth claims that are predicated on the very things it calls untrue, such as “no absolute truth.” I think the climax of postmodernism is already passed, and many are leaving this philosophy behind. It has proven itself empty.
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Epistemology is the viewpoint of how can we know or what can we know? In regard to God, we can know he is real and is the author of our world and creator of mankind because the bible is the active and living word of God. In today’s world of post modernism, the world tells students that they should ignore what they observe and go by their feelings and gut instead. In regard to the gender confusion issue that plagues our culture today, we can say that God created male and female out of his own image and we can share that just because a student may feel like they are the opposite gender of what they are doesn’t mean that they are because God designed their chromosomes to either by XX or XY. Where there is confusion, we can point student back to the bible and what God’s word says.
