Friday, August 22, 2014

Worldviews, cosmic accident or Creator God 544 - 5 - 7

There are two primary worldviews.

The first worldview is that everything is a result of a cosmic accident. This is the view most promoted today, first there was nothing and then it exploded into something; the big bang theory. After billions and billions of years of trial and error things just came together and the world as we know it came into being. This is a world created without God and therefore a world without responsibility to its creator. God was thrown out of our schools a half-century ago and we can see on the daily news how well that worked out.

The second primary worldview is that our world is deliberate result of a Creator. Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning (H7225) God created (H1254) the heaven (H8064) and the earth (H776). 

God is our Creator and we owe him reference and obedience. Further, God is very jealous of his creation with rather unpleasant consequences for the unbeliever as witnessed in Romans chapter 1. As our world is seemingly imploding, it is very reassuring to know that God is in control.

In the Issachar course I 605 seven Major Worldviews are listed:

Atheism: A world without God, back to the cosmic accident

The other six worldviews include a God and/ or God’s
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Deism: A world made by God but left on its own
Pantheism: A world that is God
Panentheism: A world that is in God
Finite Godism: A world with a finite god
Polytheism: A world with more than one finite god
Theism: A world with an Infinite God

With critical thinking, all worldviews with the exception of theism make no sense. Theism includes the three monotheistic world religions, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Jesus fulfilled more than 100 prophecies in the Old Testament and was and is the long sought Messiah. Given that neither Judaism nor Islam consider Jesus as the Messiah these two subsets of the theistic worldview dropout. We are left with Christianity as the only logical view.

Also from I 605, according to John MacArthur in his book “Think Biblically”, “A worldview is, first of all, an explanation and interpretation of the world and second, an application of this view to life." Geisler and Watkins in their book “I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” have it as "A world view is a way of viewing or interpreting all of reality. It is an interpretive framework through which or by which one makes sense out of the data of life and the world."

To say that one is a Christian can be a rather meaningless statement. How is one a Christian? All too often I hear people say they are a Christian because they are a good person and do good works. This betrays a lack of biblical knowledge/ understanding. Jesus was very clear that He is the only way to God. Jesus paid the price for all of us and we are justified by grace. However, one has to accept that free and life changing gift.

As for how can sincere people can know what to believe, they can do their own study of God’s Word. Also, one can examine the complexity of the simplest organism on this planet and see the hand of a creator in it. Truly we are without excuse.

With thanks to Strong’s:

H7225 - From the same as H7218; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically a firstfruit): - beginning, chief (-est), first (-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
H1254 - A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). We just stop it
H8064 - The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve): - air, X astrologer, heaven (-s).
H776 - From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land): -  X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X nations, way, + wilderness, world.

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