Religion Essay

Interview Questionnaire Your name: Interviewee’s name: Interviewee’s email address:

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1. How did you come to believe in your worldview? Were you born into a family that believed it or did you choose your worldview later in life?

2. Have you seriously questioned and/or examined your worldview? Have you changed worldviews at any point in your life?

3. Why do you think most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the big worldview questions like the ones below?

4. What is the greatest challenge and greatest strength of your worldview?

5. What is the best objection against your worldview, and what is the best evidence for your worldview?

6. Have you tested your worldview? If so, how? How well did it hold up?

7. In what ways does your worldview function as a type of compass or roadmap to guide or direct your living?

Provide brief answers to the following specific worldview questions: 1. Ultimate Reality: What kind of God, if any, actually exists?

2. External Reality: Is there anything beyond the universe?

3. Knowledge: What can be known and how can we know it?

4. Origin: Where did I come from?

5. Identity: Who am I? Who are humans?

6. Location: Where am I?

7. Morals: How should I live?

8. Values: What should I value?

9. Predicament: What is humankind’s basic problem?

10. Resolution: How can humankind’s problem be solved?

11. Destiny: Will I survive the death of my body? What happens when we die?

Any other thoughts/ideas: