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Table of Contents
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What is worldview?
The Question of Origin
The Question of Identity
The Question of Meaning/Purpose
The Question of Morality
The Question of Destiny
References
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Biblical Worldview
What is Worldview?
A person's or group's worldview comprises the attitudes, values, and stories that shape
their every thought and action about the world around them. It is how they interpret events,
situations, and circumstances. Muriel Fulford interprets, in layman's terms, what Andrew S.
Fulford says in his book Worldviews (Gray, 2011). About Mandelbrot's set in number theory.
Ethics, Mathematics. Set of mathematical objects. Religion. Figures from the past and present;
their insights require our interpretation. Worldview as a global culture is also a matter of
individual practice. Intelligence (Gray, 2011). Whenever random meditations lead my mind up
the paths of these thoughts, my mind's worldview is active.
The Question of Origin – (What is the origin of the universe, etc.? How did
humanity come into existence?)
The origin of the universe is a topic often talked about in public. While many people of
faith take the Bible as their source of inspiration—looking there for the divine answers to their
question—others, such as scientists, look to the leading scientific theory to find what they
consider to be the most plausible explanation (Hill, 2019). According to the Big Bang
hypothesis, the universe began in a state of high temperature and high density, which is balanced
neither here nor there, and which rapidly expanded, giving us not much thereafter (in cosmic
years) to the solid formation of what we loosely call the universe today (Uzan, 2021).
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The Question of Identity – (What does it mean to be human? Are humans more
important than other living things?)
The question about the essence of humanity is contemporary and, arguably, more salient
now than ever. When we inquire into what defines a human being, we find ourselves at the
center of the discussion—as humanity—itself. Surely, our respective lives are packed with
responsible and, even at times, weighty occupations (Everyday Biblical Worldview:
Understanding the Christian Faith (Video Supplements) - Logos Bible Study, n.d.). But if one
steps back and looks at the apparent nonsense of getting through a day—we being human in the
seemingly prosaic tasks we perform—the seemingly mundane duties pale in comparison with the
scale of what's at issue. That fountainhead of responsibility is caring for this Earth. Whether one
looks to Genesis, to the Bhagavad Gita, or to any of humanity's other foundational texts, they all
amount to the same thing (more or less) (Albrecht et al., 2018). They put humanity at the center
as the beings possessing fundamentally profound (and pivotal) responsibilities.
The Question of Meaning/Purpose – (What is humanity’s purpose?)
The very first book of the Bible, Genesis, reveals that God not only gave life to the first
humans but also infused them with a sense of purpose. His creation of them was perfect, a
"good" that is precisely conveyed here in the English with a synonym, "well." Humans are
created for the perfection in a good way . And this divine goodness is trumpeted throughout the
two chapters that compose the prologue to the Genesis creation account. Goodness is not only a
divine quality but also an integral part of God's intended design for the human beings He creates.
If we are to rule and reign over the ground of the garden in the good way that is modeled after
God, then we too are to tend it and serve it.
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The Question of Morality – (What is meant by right and wrong? How is morality
determined?)
Many secular humanists seek to establish the proposition that a person need not be
religious to be ethically or morally decent. They very often use utilitarianism as their means and
method for "proving" this. In utilitarianism, morality is defined in terms of the good or bad
results that actions are likely to produce. What this comes down to is a good old-fashioned
consequentialist definition of morality: an action is good if it has good consequences and bad if it
has bad consequences, probably 90 kinds of "good” (Jones, M. 2017, p.70). Biblical worldview
diverges from Christianity in that Christians look to the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20 to
determine what is right and wrong. This approach to ethics, known as "Divine Command
Theory," holds that "what is good is determined by God and what is bad is also determined by
God."
The Question of Destiny – (What happens when a person dies?)
There is no belief in God among secular humanists. This leads them to believe that there
is no possibility of personal survival after death. According to them, death is similar to an
inanimate object returning to Earth after it has died. Approximately twenty years ago, Aldrich
(1981) summarized the outcome as follows: "When you die, you are dead" (p. 64). "You do not
continue to live in any form." Aldrich highlights the humanist viewpoint: "You do not continue
to live in any form," and "When you die, you die." (p. 64).
One of the passages from the book of John that we are taught early on is verse 16 of
chapter 3. It states the following: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16, ESV). Eternal life,
then, is not an extension of what we have here and now. It is life after death, and it is predicated
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entirely upon our being saved—working out all things necessary for us to believe in Christ (as he
works out all things in the world to bring glory to himself) or not.
References
Albrecht, J., Degelmann, C., Gasparini, V., Gordon, R., Patzelt, M., Petridou, G., Raja, R.,
Rieger, A.-K., Rüpke, J., Sippel, B., Urciuoli, E., & Weiss, L. (2018). Religion in the
making: The lived ancient religion approach. Religion, 48(4), 568–593.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2018.1450305
Everyday biblical worldview: Understanding the christian faith (video supplements) - logos bible
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Gray, A. J. (2011). Worldviews. International psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International
Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 8(3), 58–60.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31508085/
Hill, C. A. (2019). A worldview approach to science and scripture. Kregel Academic.
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Jones, Michael S (2017). Moral reasoning: An Intentional Approach to Distinguishing Right
From Wrong. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN: 9781524945305
Uzan, J.-P. (2021). The big-bang theory: Construction, evolution and status. In Progress in
mathematical physics (pp. 1–72). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67392-5_1
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