Example Of A Paradigm Essay

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There are so many people in the world today who are hurting confused and frustrated all because of their perception of being alone and without love in their life. As a result of this, they have tried everything under the sun to find love, matchmaking companies, dating services, hundreds and hundreds of blind dates only to still find themselves alone and without love. It is said that if your premise is wrong, your conclusion will be wrong and that where you end up will depend on where you begin. This is especially true as it relates to finding love in our lives. So many people have made painstaking mistakes in love because they had the wrong premise about what love and relationships are all about. They got their cues …show more content…

A paradigm is model or example. Paradigms are the way an individual views or perceives things regardless if it is not the way the rest of society views it. Paradigms are formed through upbringing, associations, influences, in other words what has been modeled before you. A lot of what you believe and how you act, you have received in your formative years based on what you saw or heard. So if you saw your sister or brother going out to party and have multiple relationship while they were single, chances are you adopted this ideology and to you that is what relationships are all about. You saw them cussing and fussing with their boy friend or girl friend and you thought that this was normal behavior in a relationship. As a result of that, you do not feel that a relationship is not complete unless there is some cussing and fussing going on. Because this has been your paradigm, every relationship that you have entered into, you begin to manifest these characteristics and traits all because of what was modeled before you. The problem occurs when you find somebody who has not had as their experience the same paradigm. So while you are wanting to fuss and fight, they are looking at you as something from another planet, because this is not customary behavior for them based on their paradigm. Now because they do not approach the relationship from the same perspective as you do you, you think that something is wrong with them and they must not love …show more content…

Paul is saying here, in order for you to find out what God’s perfect will is for your life, you have to get rid of the old stinking thinking and replace it with a new way of thinking. That new way of thinking has to be founded on the word of God. If you are going to have success in any relationship, you have to find out what God says about relationships. You have to get into the word of God and find people who have modeled what a successful relationship looks like and begin to use them as a frame of reference so that you too can experience a successful relationship. You have to get into the word of God and find those principles that relate to relationships and apply them to your life on a daily basis. Ultimately if you are not married and this is your goal then you find out what God says that a Godly marriage looks like, what a Godly husband or wife looks like and use that as a

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