Worldview and Competing Beliefs

The last two weeks of my DTS lecture phase have been a lot of thinking and intellectual weeks. Two weeks ago we had the week on Worldview by Rick Thompson. The first day of that lecture he destroyed all of our thinking by asking us "Can you 100 percent prove christianity" and by that he didn't mean can we personally prove it but can it be proven by anyone. Then he left the answer and didn't tell us and let us think about it for the next day. It really broke down why we believe it because the answer is no! No one can prove christianity 100 percent! So the next question is why do we believe it and why are we right, compared to all the other religions. That week was crazy and really made everyone think about why are we christian, is it just because our parents are, and if we grew up in a Hindu household would we just be hindu instead because our parents are. Or are we a christian because it is the truth and our God is the only God.
Rick broke that week into three topics, he talked about a biblical worldview and what it believes about how we were created and the main purpose of our creation, and then he talks about secular worldview, so atheism, and what they believe about worldview and our purpose. Lastly he talks about eastern world views which is Hinduism and Buddists. It really was encouraging because going through all the evidence and what all those other religions believe it really affirmed all of us why christianity makes the most sense and why it is the only true way.
This past week we had Competing Beliefs week which was very similar to that, but our teaching, Jason Carlson, talked a lot about evolution and cults. He went into a ton of depth about mormonism and what they believe, and how to answer questions to people who believe in mormonism, and also about evolutionism and how we as christians can answer them intelligently.
Both of these weeks were so amazing and really made me think, but it also really affirmed me why I am a christian and not any other religion. These two weeks also really prepared all of us for the conversations that we will be having in a week on outreach, because if we don't know how to defend our faith and explain why we believe it, why would anyone else want to believe it!
I'm so excited for outreach and can't wait for the adventures and things that God will do through my team on outreach!