Joe Bot Why I Believe In God Essay

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Reading though this book, it was clear to see that Joe Boot had had some pretty important influences in his life that would have impacted the way he went about writing this book. It was the influence of Cornelius Van Til that this book came about. He wrote a lecture called “Why I believe in God” which is where the title of this book comes from, “Why I still believe.” Which comes from the idea that with all the things that Boot would have encountered in his life he chose to still believe in God and follow his ways instead of the ways of the world around him. Meaning that he would have read his Bible day after day and was aware of the positive consequences that would have come with that and the influences as well. The people that would have influenced me the most on my take of world views would be my parents. Meaning that they have put into my mind what they believed and the idea of having a Christian worldview …show more content…
Some of the positive aspects of attending a secular university would have been the idea that it would put you maybe out of your comfort zone and reach out to those who may not know who Christ is and talk about them about your faith. Another positive would have been that it would be able to show you as the student what it would be like to be around people who don’t necessarily believe what you do and have the same world view as you do. The positives of attending a Christian university would be that you would be able to know that there are people who do call themselves Christians and having professors that know what they are talking about, not that the teachers at the secular school would but the Christian university you would have to be able to have a strong faith to get the

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