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World Religion

A worldview is a set of beliefs that helps individuals understand reality, encompassing questions of truth, morality, and belonging. Religion and spirituality differ in focus, with religion emphasizing rituals and community, while spirituality is more personal and concerned with meaning and purpose. Various belief systems, such as naturalism, pantheism, theism, spiritism, and polytheism, shape these worldviews and influence one's relationship with the divine.

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World Religion

A worldview is a set of beliefs that helps individuals understand reality, encompassing questions of truth, morality, and belonging. Religion and spirituality differ in focus, with religion emphasizing rituals and community, while spirituality is more personal and concerned with meaning and purpose. Various belief systems, such as naturalism, pantheism, theism, spiritism, and polytheism, shape these worldviews and influence one's relationship with the divine.

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Worldview

-​ A very simple definition of a “worldview” is given by Matt Slick. For religion the questions are:
According to him a worldview is a set of beliefs used to What is true or false? What is right or wrong? Where do 1 belong? What
understand the world. rituals, sacraments should I do?

-​ "Belief systems are the stories we tell ourselves to define our Spirituality
personal sense of 'reality' (the way things actually exist). Every For spirituality the questions are: Where do I find meaning? What is my
human being has a belief system that he/she utilizes and it is purpose? Where do I find my direction in life? What are my values?
through this mechanism that we individually make sense of the
world around us." It could be a set of beliefs or a philosophy of From the questions above you can deduce that religion and spirituality have
life. Belief system shapes your worldview about the world, your different concerns. Spirituality is more of a personal experience concerned
existence, and relationships with your fellow man. with what are the essentials in life while religion focuses more on
membership, rituals, right and wrong or truth and falsity. Religion is more
-​ A worldview, whether religious or nonreligious, is a personal legalistic in terms of practice of beliefs while spirituality entails more
insight about reality and meaning, often termed a life freedom in exercising what they believe.
understanding which I may call a product of belief systems. Most
often worldviews are shaped by religions. Inside the box are
worldviews about man's perspective of God the world Theology

-​ Is systematic starly of God jant like other disciplines such as


1. Naturalism (eg. Atheism. Agnosticism, Existentialism). It denies the philosophy, psychology, sociology and other sciences
existence of God. The material universe is all that exists.

2. Pantheism (eg. Hinduism, Tanism, Buddhism; much New Age


Consciousness. They believe that only the spiritual dimension exists. All else
is illusion. Man is spiritual and eternal.

3. Theism (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Islam). They believe that an infinite,


personal God exists. God created the real world. People are created in the
image of God.

Spiritism. The world is inhabited by spirit beings whe govern earthly


activities. Man is created by gods like the rest of the creatures on earth.
Material things are real but they have spirits associated with them.

5. Polytheism. This is the belief in many gods or deities. The culture of


Ancient Greek and Romans depict this kind of beliefs.

Religion invites a person into a spiritual relationship with some divine entity.
This spiritual relationship stemmed from the belief that there is a life after
this world which is more important than physical life. Hence it is the role of
religion to invite all persons to believe in God for them to be saved from this
world.

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