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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Netland, Harold. Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism & the Question of Truth. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length.
You will prepare and submit a term paper on Netland, Harold. Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism & the Question of Truth. Your paper should be a minimum of 2500 words in length. So God made Himself a human known as Jesus who lived on this earth to face life and all of its temptations and responsibilities so that He can be an example for us. Then he was crucified on the cross, which was necessary to deliver us from our sins in order to unite us with God. Then Jesus came back from the dead and descended up to Heaven to be with God, the Spirit again. After Jesus' death, God came as a spirit into the conscience of Christians and now dwells within Christians. The Holy Spirit, as Christians believe, is their conscience which speaks to them about right and wrong. Therefore, Christianity comprises of the Holy Trinity, which means that God consists of God himself, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Christian exclusivism states that
this is the only true religion and anything that does not agree with the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not Christianity and is a false religion. It also comprises of the belief that God inspired twelve different apostles, or disciples, to write the Bible. Christians believe that anything that goes against the Bible is false.
The author of this book states that religious pluralism means that in various religions, or all religions, God is there and is being revealed. It is the opposite of Christian exclusivism. Not one religion is right or wrong, true or false. God makes Himself known in all religious practices. This is a very open-minded view. All religions disagree on three main subjects, or beliefs. These contradicting topics include: the one true God (Mohammed, Allah, Nirvana, the Holy Trinity, and other names that people call God), that man rebels from God, and that mankind is will be reincarnated as we will eventually change to something else. In other words, this means that our current life is not what it will always be. (Netland, 1999.)
The author believes that theologians basically hold these opinions, or views, on truth: That there is personal truth and propositional truth. Groothius (2002) states that "propositional, or declarative statements, are subject to various kinds of verification and falsification. A statement can be proven false if it can be shown to disagree with objective reality. The photographs from outer space depicting the earth as a blue orb (along with other kinds of evidence) falsified any stubborn flat-earth claims. Certainly, not all falsification is as straightforward as this. but if statements are true or false by virtue of their relationship to what they attempt to describe, this makes possible the marshaling of evidence for their veracity or falsity."
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Netland writes that theologians believe that rightfully, one can apply personal truth to religious matters but propositional truth cannot be applied to religion. He also states theologians believe that although both types of truth can be applied to religion, personal truth forms the base, or foundation, of religion. The author does not believe that these views are enough.
