RELIGION AND THEOLOGY Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
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- 1. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Moralistic therapeutic deism is a reflection of today’s society because church which is the worship place has been misused and used for other purposes. For example, in the video, the worship place was used for watching concerts by the recent terrorist bombing Manchester. Some songs performed during the concert were not specifically religious but performed with a kind of secular hymn. This reflects today’s society musicians who mention the name of God in their secular songs. (Valcova, 2016) Smith describes that American teenagers were not so much in Christian outlook.
- Secular Divide,
The tendency of pushing religion away from the public arena affects the ability to engage in culture because religion and faith are individuals and become difficult for people to relate to themselves. (Arafa, 2017) The secular divide can be eliminated by understanding the intellectual problem and transferring the truth from the brain to the heart.
3.Worship and biblical worldview
I have experienced between the desire and what I know because my desire was me towards the wrong thing but my spirit was knowing the right thing to do. (Moscick,2017). When the relationship grew with Christ, I start reading the bible and praying and the flesh was overcome. The pitfall from the worldview is that all men are created equally but they are separated by culture, race, and gender.
4 The Impact of the Gospel In the final forum interactions
Effects gospel affects our lives by making us understand the seriousness of sin and its intensity. I understood the meaning of evangelism by sharing the story of Jesus to people. Sharing is birth, crucifixiontur, resurrection, and ascension. Therefore, it is more effective in God’s plans for us.
References
Arafa, M. A. (2017). Islam and Elder Care in Egypt after the Arab Spring Uprisings: Between Divine Law and Secular Law: Quo Vadis?. CALUMET: Intercultural L. & Humanities Rev.[Law & Religion](Online Fall 2017)(reprinted by The International Center for Criminal Sciences (“ICCS”) in Brasil).
Moscicke, H. (2017). Reconciling the supernatural worldviews of the Bible, African traditional religion, and African Christianity. Missionalia, 45(2), 127-143.
Valcova, K., Pavlikova, M., & Roubalova, M. (2016). Religious existentialism as a countermeasure to moralistic therapeutic deism. Communications-Scientific letters of the University of Zilina, 18(3), 98-104.