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How would you like to be right all the time? THAT would require a non-contradictory worldview . Modeletics™ is the process for identifying this...(from the webmaster, i know that you want to get here but if you haven't read the invitation and the wall then this is not going to make sense and you won't be able to be right all the time. So go back, read, and then come here.)
Recently, numerous books have been written on the importance of getting the Christian community to present themselves in terms of a worldview. Currently, Christianity is presenting itself in piecemeal fashion, that is, we are treating each issue (e.g. abortion, homosexuality, etc) as a separate challenge to our moral structure. Once the issues have been compartmentalized, it is relatively easy for opponents of Christianity to show the general public the contradictions between the issues. The result is Christianity is represented as not having real world, practical applications to the individual, as well as our culture.
Rather than allowing outside forces to divide and conquer the Christian influence on our country and world, we need to educate people how each issue is actually a part of a non-contradictory, superstructure belief.
The reason this hasn't been done is that a non-contradictory model that non-Christians can understand hasn't been identified. This is the crucial challenge. Currently, Christians don't extend their explanation of their worldview past Creation ("God created the Heavens and the Earth"), Fall ("Man is sinful"), and Redemption ("Jesus died for our sins"). This traditional explanation has been good enough to differentiate Christianity from the other well-known worldviews, because this simple model shows the contradictions in these blatant worldviews.
However, today our model needs to reach out to real world topics. These real world topics are subtle and opinion is derived from the worldviews of common, everyday people. Since we are addressing subtle worldviews, our model needs to be more detailed and objective. This will require a significantly more complex model that makes sense to non-Christians. This website begins the presentation of this long awaited model.
Currently, Christians defend their faith with a process called "apologetics". Basically, Christians try to bring every issue back to one of the three areas previously presented (Creation, Fall, or Redemption). When these areas don't adequately address the issue, the apologist continues to repeat their three pronged belief and hopes the Holy Spirit will work on the questioner's heart.
This fundamental technique is purely defensive. In fact, one of the acknowledged benefits of traditional apologetics is that it attempts to stop the believer from wavering in his faith by demanding that he continue to repeat his three pronged worldview when others make valid points.
Modeletics™ not only gives the believer modern apologetic tools to explain the entire worldview, it proves the worldview is non-contradictory by giving the reason why. Modeletics™ uses "modern" principles (causality, contrastive thinking, and removal of contradictions) to identify a worldview that makes sense to non-believers. All of the tools currently used by apologetics (hermeneutics, reasoning, interpretation, etc.) are based on these four principles. Every time these apologetics tools don't work, the flaw can be fixed with Modeletics™. Currently, the three pronged worldview literally relies on abstraction and emotion.
For example, I love to tell people how much I love my new Henderson 4000. I relate to them how it makes my life easier, gives me more free time, and makes me happy. When an audience member asks, "What is a Henderson 4000?" I respond by relating more of the benefits: it is convenient, it comes in many colors, it doesn't need a lot of maintenance, etc.
This exchange will continue until someone tells me he doesn't think a Henderson 4000 exists. At this point, I will ask him why he doesn't believe in a Henderson 4000. The typical response is, "Because you can't explain what it is!"
At this point, I like to establish two facts. First, I get agreement that the more I talked about the Henderson 4000 in an abstract fashion, the less likely he believed in it. Secondly, I show the only way I could get someone to believe in the existence of the Henderson 4000 would be on a purely emotional basis.
It is at this point I ask the audience, "How is the Henderson 4000 any different from most people's traditional explanation of God and/or salvation?"Currently, the majority of those who do believe in Christianity did so because they were emotionally drawn. This is because Christianity, along with every other religion, is presented in an emotional fashion. However, this is not righteous and just. God's true nature would stand apart from every other belief system because it could be understood and explained objectively.
There are plenty of leaders who believe they are giving an objective explanation of Christianity. However, their explanations are contradictory to other leaders who also believe they are giving an objective explanation. This would be analogous to two or more people explaining the Henderson 4000 to an audience simultaneously. However, each person's explanation would seem to contradict the other explanations. The result would be the same: audience members who don't believe the Henderson 4000 exists because no two people can agree on what it is.
Finally, traditional apologetics tries to prove Christianity by showing other religions are more emotional. They are really trying to show other religions have more contradictions than their version of Christianity. While other religions are more emotionally based, this presentation doesn't prove Christianity is the only explanation for God and salvation. It proves it is the best explanation to date.
Modeletics™ proves this worldview is non-contradictory by giving the true definitions for the key words that people use to explain their beliefs: God, salvation, holy, just, faith, grace, mercy, confession, repentance, sacrifice, good, evil, sin, life, love, prayer, marriage, sex, Bible, revival, ethics, morals, truth, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, suffering, Heaven, hell, rewards, sanctification, leadership, saved, works, evangelism, born again, art, witchcraft, forgiveness, perfect, church, fate, free will, torture, and the Meaning of Life.
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