Reflection Of Apologetics

I wish that I had a super convicting story of how I found Jesus, and how I then started to follow him. I didn’t go through a crazy life changing event, I didn’t grow up in a rough home, I was instead, just brought up in a faithful environment. My story of becoming a christian is pretty ordinary, but I just like anyone else who became a christian, I still had to accept christ in my heart. My parents and most of my extended family are christians, so I never was surrounded by people who believed in anything else. When I was seven years old, I accepted the Lord as my savior and I was baptized and truthfully became a christian. The way I see it, is that there are many appealing aspects to being a christian. There is a Lord, who not only created …show more content…
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” So this means that when it comes to defending my faith, I must thoroughly understand what I believe, and why I believe it. I must also learn in doing so in the most polite manner. This idea is called apologetics. Apologetics is an absolutely essential ingredient to biblical evangelism (Moreland, 150). This is so important to me personally, because the last thing that I would ever want to do is turn someone off of christianity because of the way that I approach them. I primarily need to begin by understanding their worldview as a whole, and why they follow it. To begin with, the Islamic belief system began in 622. It’s staggering to even imagine, but 1 out of 5 people are muslim. This occupies for 23% of the world. The Islam believe if fairly strict, in which they have a mentality that everything should be viewed as religious. Muslims have many rules and regulations that they must abide by to keep in their faith. This includes the Five Pillars of Muslim. In this practicing, they have five key rules and practices they live by. Throughout the paper I will go more in depth into a few of these categories of the Five Pillars of …show more content…
Which sounds fairly simple and a decent way to live life. The term nihilism, means nothing, which is what the worldview is primarily about. A teenager in this day of age would seem to really benefit from this worldview because there is no value or meaning to anything which means you can do whatever you want. This means you can sleep with anyone, and it really doesn’t matter. You can skip class, because who really cares if you get a good education, and get a solid job because in the end we will just die. The Nihilistic worldview allows people to live life with essentially no rules. No one has the right to tell you are living your life wrong, because it doesn 't really matter how you live your