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Relevance of Christianity Paper

Larry Jackson

Ohio Christian University

Author’s note

This paper was prepared for Transformed Worldview Christian (ONB54), taught by Professor Tino

Relevance of Christianity Paper

My exchange from the reading “Transformed Thinking” by Edward M. Curtis was very beneficial and enlightening. Like the way he used the four blind men to make his point about understanding reality. Each man came upon an elephant they never seen or image of it; made their assumption what they thought it was; either man was close of what it actual was. Point to story all four of the men were, each in his severely limited way, correct , all of them were so far from realizing that what they had touch was an elephant that all were about as wrong as it is possible to be (Curtis, 1996). Made it clear how people today fall in that same boat as the blind men assuming they are correct without gathering all the facts and really so far off from truth it’s a crying shame.

Very surprised on the four basic ways we learn by empiricism, reason, intuition, and faith. Empiricism understanding it to be a result of learning of the things we have experience in the world mainly though our common sense that can be seen consistently. Reason an orderly form of the logical thinking with leads and draws a conclusion with truth. Intuition another way we learn truth by mystical insight which isn’t based off logical or empirical thinking. While some intuitions are shown in hindsight to be correct, many never receive that validation, while many claims to truth reached through intuition contradict one another (Curtis, 1996). Faith play a key role in our learning of knowing truth this information comes from God’s words in the bible giving us knowledge on matters that we have no experience on; just believing and trusting in him totally. This will assist me with making decision or agreeing on matters; I will know why the decision was made base off of these learning elements...