Epistimology
... Now, don’t misread that statement. I was raised in a Christian home; I’ve attended church since I was a baby, but there is a difference between attending church as a child and being introduced to all of God’s wonders. Before I get in depth on why God and the Bible are my ultimate authority over my parents, I’d like to explain more into my parents. (It helps explain my beliefs and feelings better) My parents came from two very different worlds, but had one thing in common an undying love for Christ. All of my life all they ever wanted for me was the same undying love. I’ve stumbled and I’ve fallen, but they were always there to pick me up with encouraging words. Although they are no longer married, the same undying love they share for Christ, they also shared for me. It was by that example, by that pledge of love not only for me but also for Christ that made me want the same lifestyle. “…as for me and my household we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 I’m now considered an adult, I make my own decisions, and I don’t need my parents in the same why I use to. Now my “household” is mine. And the same way my parents trusted in Christ, is the way that I want to trust in Christ. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. How many higher authorities can really say that? The answer is none. He is it. Throughout the Bible we learn of Christ works, all the wonderful things he did to show people his mercy, love, and power. Anyone with that kind of devotion to others is more than trustworthy in my eyes. In an overall view of things, I believe that’s what it comes down to, trust. If you can’t trust something or someone then what they have to say means nothing. Another aspect of God that leads me to trust in him is because he himself is a father; not only to all humans, but to Jesus. As Jesus’ father, he loved and protected him as my parents did me. And as much as God loved his son he sent him to die for all others’ sins. He mourned the pain and death that took Jesus from Earth in the same way my parents would mourn my death. The knowledge that I have gained from God isn’t necessarily in the form of a revelation. This knowledge is through trust. Through trust I comprehend what I am taught, I am able to make my own mistakes and learn from them, and I’m able to be me. The rest of the assignment is to relate how I believe I know to a rhetorician who believes the same thing, but in my search I was unable to find one the completely agrees with me. In some cases, the rhetorician believed the complete opposite, for example, John Locke “argued that only experience could provide materials for reason and ...