World Views

As a Christian, as an ambassador of Christ our goal is to expose error and to teach the truth, and as a Christian we believe that Christianity is truth. Through the Holy Spirit, our goal is to plant the seed of conversion that salvation may spring forward. Having the knowledge of World views helps us to know what others believe and also how the enemy has saturated the earth with toxins. Our knowledge of the Bible allows souls to be saved and God to be glorified through Jesus Christ.

The Jewish Nation

Christianity comes out of Judaism.

The Jewish nation doesn’t read the New Testament. Christians read the Old and New Testament.

The Jewish Nation mainly read their Hebrew Bible : the Tanakh, the Torah, and the Talmud.

The Tanakh consists of the the Law, Prophets and writings.

The Torah are the first five books of the bible; from Genesis to Deuteronomy.

The Talmud are the rabbinical writings that explain and interpret the Torah.

How do we present Jesus as the Messiah to the Jewish nation?

Place of Birth -

2  But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,

Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,

Yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;

Born of a virgin -

Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009).

Born of a virgin -

Rejected by Jews -

14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;

Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,

And shall call his name Immanuel.

The Holy Bible: King James Version.

Rejected by Jews -

Triumphal Entry -

3  He is despised and rejected of men;

A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:

And †we hid as it were our faces from him;

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

The Holy Bible: King James Version.

Triumphal Entry -

Betrayed by a Friend -

9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion;

Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee:

He is just, and having salvation;

iLowly, and riding upon an ass,

And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

The Holy Bible: King James Version.

Betrayed by a Friend -

Sold for 30 pieces of silver - Zech. 11:12

Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:

9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,

Behold, thy King cometh unto thee:

Which did eat of my bread,

He is just, and having salvation;

iLowly, and riding upon an ass,

Hath lifted up his heel against me.

And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

The Holy Bible: King James Version.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.Sold for 30 pieces of silver -

Sold for 30 pieces of silver -

King James Version Chapter 11

12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Smitten and spat upon.

Suffered for us.

Hands and feet pierced.

Given gall and vinegar.

Cast lots for his garments.

Not a bone to be broken.

His ascension.

We can plant a seed with what the Jewish nation from using their own Holy Books about Jesus.

Christianity, Islam and Judaism

How similar or how different are these three worldviews ?

The Jews, the Muslims and the Christians all claim Abraham as theirs, and that the the God of Abraham is the God that they are following.

The three religions believe in one God.

The main difference between the three is Jesus and who He is

to each group.

Amongst the Jews he was either a the Son of God, the Savior, the Messiah or a trouble maker, a mere man.

To the Muslims he was a prophet, a mere man.

To the Christian he is our Savior, our living Hope, our God, our intercessor.

Jesus was God and man, not 50% man and 50% God, but 100% God and 100% man we can’t and we don’t understand this, but this is where faith comes in to practice.

We can’t we don’t understand this, but this is where faith comes in to practice.

Atheism

A word on Islam in , says that the Word which was God was with God and became flesh and dwelt among us and was crucified (; ).  This is denied in Islam, which says that Jesus is only a prophet and was not crucified.

Atheism

Disbelief or lacking belief in the existence of God.

Notable atheists are Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain and Carl Sagan.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a Christian Science follower?

What four ways do we (Christians) know that there is a God?

What four ways do we (Christians) know that there is a God?

The written word.

Jesus existence.

Nature.

Our conscience.

Buddhism

Those who are Buddhists, we are familiar them we we enter a restaurant or establishment and we see a statue of an individual whose legs are folded with a huge stomach and with curly hair.

In Buddhism, the primary purpose of life is to end suffering. The Buddha taught that humans suffer because we continually strive after things that do not give lasting happiness. We desperately try to hold on to things - friends, health, material things - that do not last, and this causes sorrow.

The Buddha, or "enlightened one," was born Siddhartha Gautama to a large clan, in the 6th century B.C.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a Buddhist?

Christian Science

Christian Science

They believe in one God, but not in the trinity.

They also believe that matter and evil don’t exist.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a Christian Science follower?

Gnosticism

Gnostics believe that the supreme God is unknowable, the creator god is evil and matter is evil.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a Gnostic?

Hinduism

In the Hindu religion the followers believe in many gods.

It is the main religion of India.

The Hindu follower believe in reincarnation until enlightenment.

From the Hindu religion we get yoga.

Yoga is also practiced by Buddhists.

The core principles of yoga

1. Yoga, is a meditative means of discovering dysfunctional perception and cognition, as well as the act of overcoming dysfunctions for release from suffering, inner peace and salvation;

2. Yoga, is the raising and expansion of consciousness from oneself to being coextensive with everyone and everything; 3. Yoga, is a path to omniscience and enlightened consciousness enabling one to comprehend the impermanent (false impression) and permanent (true, transcendent) reality;

4. Yoga, is a technique for entering into other bodies, generating multiple bodies, and the attainment of other supernatural accomplishments; these are called states.

;[33] Yoga, as a technique for entering into other bodies, generating multiple bodies, and the attainment of other supernatural accomplishments; these are, states White, described in Tantric literature of Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as the Buddhist Sāmaññaphalasutta;[34] James Mallinson, however, disagrees and suggests that such fringe practices are far removed from the mainstream Yoga's goal as meditation-driven means to liberation in Indian religions.[35]

Has anyone ever seen the movie avatar?

The Hindus believe in avatars, does anyone know what an avatar is?

The definition is

the incarnation of a Hindu deity (such as Vishnu)

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a :an incarnation in human form

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person in the Hindu religion?

Jesus said Himself that He was not one among many avatars. He claimed there was only one God (; ) and He claimed to be that one true God in the flesh (; ; ). He also asserted that no one could come to God the Father except through Him alone (). He said that there was only one true religion ().

Jehovah Witness

Jehovah Witness

Has anyone ever been encountered by a Jehovah Witness, and was that experience?

The Jehovah Witness believe in one God: Jehovah.

The Jehovah Witness believe in

They do not believe in the trinity.

They believe Christ is the first creation of God.

They believe that the Holy Spirit is a force.

They do not believe in blood transfusions.

They do not believe in celebration of holidays.

They do not use crosses or religious images.

They believe in no hell.

They believe that heaven is only for 144,000 witnesses.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Jehovah Witness ?

King James Version Chapter 5

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

1 John 5:7–8 ESV

For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

-8Mormonism

Mormonism

Mormonism

God the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are three separate individual beings.

Abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea; baptism for the dead; eternal marriage.

When witnessing to Mormons you must understand that their use and definition of words that you use are different that what you know them to be.

Example: The Trinity,

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Mormon?

SATAN

LDS--The opposer of God, literal son of God, brother of Jesus and all people begotten in the pre-existent spirit world.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Mormon?

Bible--A fallen angel who rebelled against God.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Mormon?

MARRIAGE

LDS--An eternal bonding of husband and wife that continues into the afterlife.  These couples will continue to have children.

Bible--the holy covenant between a man and a woman that is broken at death.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Mormon?

The trinity are not three separate entities.

In the Bible God chose to allow himself to manifest for in the Old Testament and New Testament, God Spirit alighted and spoke through men in the Old and New Testament, Christ was seen as a shadow in the Old Testament and made flesh in the New Testament.

Christ spoke in the New Testament as

I and my Father are one. .

16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord (Jesus) is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. ).

6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

King James Version Chapter 5

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

1 John 5:7–8 ESV

For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.

Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam believe in "One God whose proper name is Allah." They believe that Wallace Fard Muhammad became the divine messiah and incarnation of Allah in 1930.

They believe "The Blackman is the original man."

Prayer five times a day. Work for the equality of the African race.

Qur'an and "Scriptures of all the Prophets of God" are holy texts

While the Nation of Islam claims, as its name would suggest, to advance Islam as the true religion, their beliefs can hardly be called Islamic. It is true that they put forward as the first tenant of their faith that: "We believe in the One God whose proper Name is Allah,"1 They reject, however, that Allah is a transcendent (surpassing the ordinary; exceptional.), eternal, spiritual being. They argue that God is instead a man.

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Member of the Nation of Islam?

surpassing the ordinary; exceptional., eternal, spiritual being. They argue that God is instead a man.

The Bible is clear that "God is Spirit" ( God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth) that He is "not a man" (

The Bible is clear that "God is Spirit" ( God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth) that He is "not a man" (

God is not a man, that he should lie;

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Neither the son of man, that he should repent:

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., that He is "not a man" (), and that He "possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see," ().

Hath he said, and shall he not do it?

Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?).

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., ). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.), and that He "possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see," ().

New Age

Dawning of a New Age of heightened consciousness and international peace.

Individuals can obtain a foretaste of the New Age through spiritual transformation ("Ascension").

Evil comes from ignorance.

New agers are involved in Astrology; mysticism; use of crystals; yoga; tarot readings; holistic medicine; psychic abilities; angelic communications; channeling; amulets; fortune-telling.

What is the New Age Movement ?

It is a sponge that attempts to absorb all religions, cultures, and governments. It seeks to unify all systems into one spiritual, socio-economic unity.

They believe that each person is God.

Man is not divine but a sinner ().

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

He is deceitful and desperately sick ().

He is deceitful and desperately sick ().

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

He is full of evil ().

He loves darkness rather than light ().

What the New Age Movement does not do.

It does not teach that man is a sinner - ;

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

. It does not teach that man is dependent upon God for all things - ; . It does not teach that punishment is eternal - .

. . It does not teach that man is dependent upon God for all things - ; . It does not teach that punishment is eternal - .

It does not teach that man is dependent upon God for all things - ;

Even every one that is called by my name:

. It does not teach that punishment is eternal - .

For sI have created him for my glory,

I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

It does not teach that punishment is eternal - .

. It does not teach that punishment is eternal - .

King James Version Chapter 14

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12

Rastafarianism

On November 2, 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned emperor of Ethiopia (he ruled until 1974). At his coronation he took the name Haile Selassie, meaning "Might of the Trinity."

Founded by Marcus Garvey in the slums of Jamaica in the 1920s and 30s

Rastafarians believe God is Jah, who became incarnate in Jesus; Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was messiah.

Rastafarians believe in the abstinence from most or all meat, artificial foods, and alcohol. The sse of marijuana in religious rituals and for medicine. The wearing of dreadlocks.

They believe that Jesus is black.

They do not believe in an afterlife.

Have any of you known or heard of any Rastafarians?

Bob Marley, and Snoop Dogg.

With the little we have talked of Rastafarians are there any scriptures that come to your mind to offer to them ?

Scientology

Scientologists believe in reincarnation.

Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death. It is also called rebirth or transmigration.

Man is, by nature, good. God exists but is different for different people. Good is constructive action and thought. Evil is destructive action and thought.

Scientology believes that there are multiple gods and that some gods are above other gods.

God: Scientology believes that there are multiple gods and that some gods are above other god

What scriptures of the bible or knowledge in Christ would you offer to a person who is a Scientologist?

Member of the Nation of Islam?

The Bible teaches that God is the sovereign and only creator of the universe ()

The Bible teaches that God is the sovereign and only creator of the universe ()

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Famous Scientologists are John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Doug E. Fresh, Kirstie Alley.

There are so many more worldviews and religions in this life, but we are to talk of our Savior Jesus and not a religion.

The Holy Spirit will speak through us to communicate His truth.

We don’t need to defend God when they come with their religion.

When and if we don’t have an answer for someone because of lack of knowledge then we are to study and have an answer for the next encounter.

If we did study, the Holy Spirit can bring all things back to our remembrance.

, speaks volumes when we don’t know anything else to minister.

King James Version Chapter 3

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

King James Version Chapter 3

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18

And

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Respect people with different beliefs that we disagree with.

Christianity emphasizes grace, humility and love.

Truth and love turns the heart and mind and shows the love of Christ when we minister to others.

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and pfear: 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Others telling of their worldview and you telling of yours is not a competitive endeavor.

Come with the love of God, plant the seed, and let God do the rest.