Why are we here? As simple of a question as it is, I’m sure it’s one many people have asked themselves. From a Christ-centered theists’ worldview the answer is quite simple: we were created for a …show more content…
In this unit something that was extremely meaningful to me was when the book talked how Jesus wants us to live our lives. I came to learn that what it means by Jesus wanting us to live our lives is that our relationship with God is not grounded in our attempts to be perfect and we don’t have to do “all the right things.” This was really comforting to read because so many times I get caught up in trying to pay back God for my salvation, and I use to think when I made a mistake I’m one step closer to God abandoning me, but that’s not the case. Continuing on, this unit supplied something really helped out my walk with Christ, but something that also really challenged it. When reading the pages later in the book the question that came to my mind was how can God create people even though he already knows they are going to hell, or choose some people to be saved and others not? I really wrestled with this, but have come to understand that we are all equally sinful and that nobody has any place or ground to beg for their salvation because none of us is truly deserving. So as a result if God wants to choose someone to be saved and another person not that we can not question his divine plan or