Erin Graybeal's Christian Worldview

Erin Graybeal begins the paper “Christian Worldview” with an opinion statement of how Christians are “peculiar” and “quarrel often” then goes on to state three main ideas which unites them and creates a Christian worldview. Although Graybeal provides a clear opinion in the introduction, the rest of the remains objective. Graybeal discusses the main points of the Bible being a Holy Book, and morals allowing Christians to be set apart for God. Overall, Graybeal provides and informative and objective paper on the Christian worldview. The author first addresses the topic of the Bible and where it came from. The logical idea is mentioned that the Bible could have been edited throughout time, but that Christians believe that God would not have let that happen. The statement is made that “God left his children two things to help them on earth: the Holy Spirit and his word” (Graybeal, 1). In this essay, thoughtful questions are proposed and, in comment to the above statement, Graybeal asks “So why would God allow for his word on Earth to guide his people in the wrong direction?” (1). Further into the essay, the author discusses how the Bible is not cut and dry—there are …show more content…
Christians define their morals based on the Bible, but also branch off and shape new ones based on such guideline. Graybeal provides evidence for this by making the statement, “God’s word doesn’t say that drugs are terrible or that abortion is wrong, they are not mentioned as sins in the bible” (4). The author addresses that morals are important but are not the most important thing—and that morals can be taken to an extreme. A great point Graybeal makes is that “A Christian worldview can be contaminated or supplemented by the presence of Morals” (4). Although morals can be taken to an extreme, Christians should be active in the world to make change positive