Personal Worldview
The author of this report is to answer the seven worldview questions as offered by James Sire from the text. These questions include queries about prime reality, the nature of the world around us, what a human being is, what happens to a person when they die, how it is possible to know anything at all, how someone knows right from wrong and what the meaning of human history happens to be. These are questions that vex and perplex even the wisest of persons at times but the author of this report will venture to answer them anyway. While no one knows the answers to the questions with scientific certainty, there are some that are more certain than others.
The first question is the one about prime reality. Indeed, it pertains to the concept and idea that there is something or someone out there that is never-ending, eternal and that was not created by a greater being. The manifestation of this "prime reality" for many people is their belief in God as described in the Christian Bible. Indeed, Muslims and Jews believe in similar strains of that same thought pattern. The author of this report would ascribe to the concept of God in the Christian sense. While there is no scientific proof of such a deity existing, the explanations offered in terms of the Big Bang and such have gaping holes including how the process actually started. Even so, there could absolutely be a parallel between the Big Bang/evolution and the concept of God. The author of this report is open to both theories being true to some degree rather than them being mutually exclusive. As far as the nature of God, that would be a being that is all-knowing, all-seeing and has a wisdom that is beyond our comprehension. Indeed, many people wonder and are perplexed by the meaning of life or the ostensible lack thereof. However, perhaps we are not smart and developed enough to be able to answer that question and perhaps we need to leave it to God.
As far as the nature of the world around us, the concept of God would entail that the nature of the world around us was created and formed by a greater being. Beyond that, we are but one planet in a huge universe that is full...
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