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A True Worldview
Contributed by Ken Henson on Nov 29, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: What is a True Worldview? The purpose of apologetics is to present biblical answers to four questions: Who are we? What is the Meaning of it all? What should we do? Where are we going? If you can answer these questions have presented a worldview.
What is a True Worldview?
The purpose of apologetics is to present biblical answers to four questions:
Who are we?
That’s Origin, Ontology, & Teleology.
What is the Meaning of it all?
Epistemology, Aesthetics, Hermeneutics,
What should we do?
That’s Morality (Ethics)
Where are we going?
That’s Destiny.
If you can answer these questions have presented a worldview.
The First Question
Who are we?
Begins with
Where did we come from?
Origin (Creation)
In the context of a Sunday morning message there is not enough time/space (spacetime) to properly compare worldviews. It would be fun (for some) to examine various cosmogonies, from the Babylonian to the Mayan, to the ancient Chinese to the Sumerian to the Greek & Hindu myths of creation to the modern theoretical physicists’ myth of how the universe got started, humanity has, clearly, been a bit obsessed with thoughts of the question “How did we get here”?
The Bible addresses this issue, not from a scientific perspective (for the majority of our history, humanity simply lacked the sophistication to understand what God would have said if He had given a technical description of His work of creation).
The Genesis
The focus of the Bible
In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
“Many people get the mistaken impression that the Bible is Geo-centric . . . In other words they believe the Bible is centered on the earth and mankind. And that’s partly true. But the Bible is actually “Theo-centric” . . . It’s centered on God”. –Jeff Strite
Our God is Creator
He Continues with New Creation
His creative power is reason for Praise
His pre-existence provides Him power to predict
Because He created the cosmos, He is able to keep a covenant
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I am the Alpha and Omega, says the Lord God, which was and is and is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . Through Him all things were made and without him nothing was made that is made (John 1:1, 3).
“. . . and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the deep” (Genesis 1:2)
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit creates the universe.
Our God-Father, Spirit, Son-is Creator (Genesis 1:21,27; 2:3-4;5:1-2;6:7, etc.)
He is the God of new creation.
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10
Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord: Psalm 102:18
When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. Psalm 104:30
For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13
You are His special creation.
Our God is Creator
He Continues with New Creation
His creative power is reason for Praise
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up, into the heavens and say there is no God.” –Abraham Lincoln
Our God is Creator
He Continues with New Creation
His creative power is reason for Praise
His pre-existence provides Him power to predict
Because He created the cosmos, He is able to keep a covenant
Worldview Element 1-Creation
Creation is all about God and His work
And
He has created all things for US & created US with a purpose He planned since before the foundation of the world.
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That brings us to Worldview Element 2
What is the Meaning of it all?
In order to answer the question, ‘what does it mean’ you must first answer the question ‘what is real’? Stated another way, the question is, “what is true”? I realize most people are not asking this question. But philosophers and scientists do.
Einstein said the whole universe is an illusion, though a very persistent one.
Whether it’s the Matrix trilogy, soon to be . . . what would the word be? Quadlogy? Or the more recent television programs such as one today Broken Mirror (? Black Mirror? Something to do with a mirror) Asking if our consciousness is real. This seems to be an obsession with screenwriters, whether it is with normal people i don’t know.
