Compare one of the following pairs of overall worldviews by describing the similarities and differences I605 - 1 - 1

Well, that was very interesting. I was working on answering this discussion question when there was a knock at the door. Two of the sweetest most clean-cut young men were on my doorstep and of course holding a book of Mormon. Actually, I'm looking to be a Christian apologist and I sure had my opportunity. The young men seemed to be somewhat aware of the warning in the Book of Revelation 22:18-19 concerning adding or taking away from the Word of God. We had a rather interesting discussion about the Prophet Joseph and I gently compared the authority of the Book of Mormon to that of the Quran. After some discussion we were at an impasse but prayed for each other. Perhaps I went too far in mentioning that the Prophet Joseph Smith was a Mason and that as with the Masons so with the Mormons; there is a huge group of low level workers and just a few of the elevated elect. Well, now back to the business of KI.

According to MacArthur, “A worldview is, first of all, an explanation and interpretation of the world and second, an application of this view to life." and Geisler and Watkins have it as "A world view is a way of viewing or interpreting all of reality. It is an interpretive framework through which or by which one makes sense out of the data of life and the world."

As for a comparison of Theism and Deism, the first requirement is a belief in a God. The worldviews of Theism and Deism affirm that there is an infinite God who is uncaused, immutable, and eternal and is the creator/ originator of the Universe. God created the world out of nothing and is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.

The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning "god". The God of Theism is a personal being who interacts with His creation who He sustained. God is tripersonal; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God created a perfect world for His creation man who is made in His image and is immortal. Not only is there a moral law; morals are absolute. God did not want a world populated by robots so He gave mankind free-will. We know how well that worked out in the garden and only the gift of the Son on the cross could offer man the possibility of redemption. It is man's destiny to be rewarded or punished.

The Deist believes that an infinite god created the world and left it on its own rather than the Theist God who intervenes in history. Another major difference between Theism and Deism is that miracles are possible and occur in the former but may be possible but do not occur with the later. To the Deist God is infinite and one in nature rather than a trinity. Other points of departure include the defeat of evil, morals and an immaterial afterlife in the case of the Deist.

Ref:

Holy Bible (KJV)
“Worlds Apart A Handbook on World Views” Second Edison  by Norman L. Geisler and William D. Watkins

“I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek
“Christian Apologetics” by Norman L. Geisler

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As an aside, we in the United States are repeatedly told by our pastors, by our church teachers and church leaders that America was founded as a Christian nation. And until the current administration, politicians also made the same claim. This contention would be true if limited to the arrival of the Puritans at Plymouth and the early history of the new world. However, a number of our founding fathers were Deist as well as being of the order of Masons. The Masons have so rather occult leaning but that could a subject for another KI course.

However,  not be so bad if it were confined to the. If that were the case, it would be an accurate statement, in this writer’s opinion. The problem arises when one marks the foundation of our country at the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States. It is at this point where all Bible-believing Christians should be very wary, since the working of occult societies during this era was at an unprecedented height. Some historians even argue that you simply cannot understand the history of the world for the past few hundred years if you do not take these societies into account. Their members have been the planners, leaders, and engineers of a global agenda, one that they do not readily share with the rest of the world. More importantly, they often use “religion” as an instrument to manipulate the masses, their belief being that the end justifies the means.

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