A world view as stated by the American Social Science Society is " a mental model of reality — a framework of ideas & attitudes about the world, ourselves, and life, a comprehensive system of beliefs — with answers for a wide range of questions". The fact is that everyone has a worldview, whether they know what that is or not. To every person a worldview can be defined in a different way, the way I personally choose to think about it is as a lense from which that person view the world. Your worldview is affected by everything you are exposed to whether it be religous perspective, region you are from or intellectual back ground. So regardless of whether someone is aware of it everyone has a worldview and a lense through which they view the world.
To develop a stronger Christian worldview there is alot that we can do as educated adults. First of all I believe that the society that we are raised in shares many Christian view points, whether it be that stealing, murder are bad. Or even how as a society we frown on adultery, criminals and those who break alot of Christian moral values. Yet most of these are just univerally viewed as bad, and many people look at Christianity as just this simple, dont do bad things, obey the law and youll go to heaven. But for us to truly have a Christian worldview we have to truly have a relationship with Christ and in every situation look to act and do what Christ would do. We also have to understand what we believe and why we believe it, because under any circumstance if you are truly invested in what you believe and understand why you believe it then you are much more likely to act out what you believe. But if you dont understand why you believe something it is much easyer to be swayed in your opinions and actions. So in summation I believe to develop a Christian viewpoint we have to understand what we believe and study the bible.;
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