Thesis

Steven Newmen

11/27/2011

CWV 101

Matt Hamptom

The Structure of my Worldviews

The three components that make up my worldview are God, Human Nature, and Ethics because they shaped my thoughts, experiences, education and life decisions. But more specifically I chose God because God is number one in my life and I’m a devoted Christian. I chose Human Nature simply because I am human and there for I have lost my way and became of the world. And lastly I chose Ethics because my ethics, background, beliefs, value and norms are something that are dear to my heart and are what help to make me into the person I am today.

God is my first component and he has impacted my thoughts, in a major way. God is always in my thoughts my thought process can be broken down into two sections. The first what is the Godly or Christian thing to do? Which is where I view things from a Christian stand point, I reflect on scripture or a pass sermon I have heard. Secondly God has played a Vidal role in my experiences. God has influenced my experiences in my life by testing me and I have both passed and failed. But regardless of the outcome I learned sometime from it. And lastly God has lead me to make certain choices in both my education and life decisions. God plays a big part in my education, I prayed for finding purpose in my life which lead me deciding to go back to school and after doing some thinking I decided I wanted to become A Special Education Teacher. So then I was faced with the task of finding a school and after about six week of hunting and gathering I choose GCU being I felt it suited my needs the best.

My second component is Human Nature. Human Nature is something none of us can escape do to there is always a threat. Human Nature plays a pretty big role in my thought process. Human Nature is the part two of my though process which I like to call What Would Prayer Do? The part of me that wants to do something simply because it’s what I want to do, with no regard to if...