A Worldview Overview
Every person has a
worldview. Worldviews are the lens
through which we see the world around us.
This lens is made up of our beliefs, our prejudices, our hopes and our
dreams. What we have learned, what we
have been subject to, our environment and our situation all determine our
worldview. Our worldview affects every
aspect of our lives, even if we don’t admit to having one or acknowledge the
influence it has on us. Just as we
cannot hear without ears, we cannot determine anything about our world without
it passing through the funnel of our worldviews. As in the words of David Noebel, “the term
worldview…refers to any set of ideas, beliefs, convictions or values that
provides a framework or map to help you understand God the world and your
relationship to God and the world.
Specifically, a worldview should contain a particular and clear
perspective regarding each of the following ten disciplines: theology,
philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics
and history.” [1] A
Worldview can be likened to a triangle.
The base of the triangle affects the next level, which in turn is the
base of the next level, which is the basis for the final level. Hence, in that way, the foundation of our
worldview is our perspectives, what we perceive in life. The next level is directly influenced by our
perspectives – our beliefs. What we
believe is based upon what we see to be true in our lives and from what we see
in the lives of others. The next level
is our priorities. Our beliefs determine
our priorities. If we believe family
life is the most important, then we will prioritize that, if we believe wealth
is more important, then that will be our focus.
The final level is our actions.
This is only part of our worldview that the world sees – and judges from
the top level only. What we perceive to
believe, to prioritize is what will come out in our actions. Our actions prove ourselves to the world and
only through our actions can the world tell what the foundations of our live
are really like. A Christian worldview,
for example, would believe in a God, which means that our priorities reflecting
in our actions should show actions such as prayer, kindness and sacrificing our
time and resources to help others. A
Cosmic Humanist, in contrast, will spend a lot of time searching for the truth,
because they believe that the truth is within us, and only has to be realized. And so on and so forth, our beliefs influence
our actions.
Christianity:
A
Christian worldview is very different from most of the other main worldviews,
mainly because Christians believe in a supernatural Being which is all
powerful, all good and deeply concerned with the issues that go on down in our
earth. Christian theology is the basis
of our worldview. Christians believe in
two types of revelations – general revelations and special revelation. General revelations is the simple act of
looking around us and seeing the wonder of creation and acknowledging the hand
of God in our world. ‘The heavens
declare the Glory of God, the skies proclaim the works of His hand, day after
day they pour forth speech and night after night they display knowledge.’ (Psalm
19:1-2). The universe is constantly
telling us that God exists – we only have to look up and see the grandeur and
the sheer size to know our God. The tiny
genetic codes that make up our DNA are constantly showing us that God exists –
we only have to look into the smallest factory in the world and see the
intricacy and precision to know our God.
This kind of revelation is General Revelation. Special revelation is when God reveals
himself to man in a personal level.
Special revelation occurs through the reading of the Bible, which is the
inspired word of God. When man becomes a
Christian, God revels Himself to him in a way that can only be described by one
who has experienced it. Special
Revelation is the continuing unveiling of the character and glory of God.
Christian
philosophy is a subject that is sometimes considered to be even
non-existent. Some believe that if one
has faith, one must abandon all reason, hence philosophy. Some people take Colossians 2:8, which says,
“beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to
the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not
according to Christ.” to mean that Christians are not to have a reason for
their faith, that we are not to defend it, we are simply to blindly believe. However, if one reads onto verse 3,
“according to the basic principles of the word, and not according to Christ.”
it becomes clear that Paul is warning us against trying to defend our faith
using the wisdom of the world, but rather we are to use the wisdom and reason
of Christ. It is very clear in the Bible
that we are to give reason for the hope that is in us. (1 Peter 3:15) [2] We believe in the natural and the
supernatural. This philosophy gives us
reason to answer the main questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my purpose
here?’ Because we believe in life after
death, then our purpose for being here becomes quite clear. We are here to learn to love God to be a
light to those who don’t yet know the way.
And when our work is done, we enter heaven as the children of God.
Christian
ethics is one based on the absolute character and morals of God, which He has
defined clearly to us in the Bible.
Christians believe in absolute morals – moral laws that are no subject
to the individual, culture, times or circumstance. These moral absolutes are set out for us in
the Bible, and although it is impossible for the Bible to cover intricately
every single moral issue we may come across, the guidelines are more than
sufficient for us to determine the right and the wrong in everything that we
must face. Christians also believe that
all of us, every single person, has failed God’s standards of morality, and we
all fall short of the glory of God (Romans 1:6) That is why God sent His one
and only Son, that He might be the perfect sacrifice and cover our failings
with His Blood. Although we still
continue to fail Him, God forgives our sins as we repent, and as we strive to
become more and more like Him.
And
lastly, Christian biology is strikingly different from other worldview as well
– also because of the fact that Christians believe there is a God. Christians believe that God created the world;
that He made it in six days, and rested on the seventh. Some Christians try to compromise on this
belief, and make it fit in with evolution, and what is termed at
‘science.’ However, there is more
evidence that Creation rather than Evolution is true, and if we don’t believe
that the first few chapters of Genesis are literal statements, then the whole
foundations of Christianity comes tumbling down around us. For, if we don’t believe that God made the
world, and made Adam, then Adam didn’t exist, which means there was no fall of
man, which means there would be no sin, and Jesus wouldn’t have need to have
come. This view violates every other
aspect of Christianity.
Islam:
Muslims believe in Allah, the one
and only god who made the world. They
believe that one can only get to heaven by being good, and their good deeds
must outweigh their bad deeds on judgement day if they are to pass through the
gates. Muslims believe that there are
five pillars, which must be kept thoroughly and to the best of one’s
possibility. They are, praying five
times a day, giving donations and alms to the poor and needy, declaring that
there is only one god – and Allah is his name, fasting throughout the month of
Ramadan, and making a pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime to Mecca.
Islam
theology rests upon the fact there Allah is the god who created the world and
who created man. Muslims believe that to
become a Muslim, all one has to do is to devoutly repeat, ‘There is only god
and Muhammad is his prophet.’ Saying
this, however, is not a guaranteed entry into heaven. They must work for their place in eternity,
and they will not know if they have succeeded until they are at the gates. They can, however, guarantee their spot into
heaven by dying while in jihad. Jihad is
the act of preserving the Muslims faith, often by removing the lives of those
who don’t believe. Muslims believe that
humans are born naturally good, and so it is a coming back to the roots and
foundations of life, which make one truly perfect and fit to enter heaven. Muslims have a book, called the Qur’an, which
they believe is the word of god to them written over a period of twenty-three
years by the angel Jibril.
Islam
philosophy is based on the thoughts and writing of the Ancient Greeks. This sometimes causes problem because the
Ancient Greeks were either atheists or polytheists, of which Islam is neither. However, most Islamic philosophers agree that
there is only one god, and that he cannot not exist. In other words, it is not possible for God to
not exist. Muslims also believe in the
supernatural and in miracles. It is
interesting to note that although many miracles are recorded in the Qur’an –
such as the ten plagues and other miracles – there are no recorded miracles of
Muhammad, which one would expect seeing that Muhammad is believed to be greater
than Jesus and Moses. However, Muslims
point to the Qur’an citing the verse, ‘there came to you apostles before me
[Muhammad] with Clear Signs and even with what ye ask for: then did ye slay
them, if they seek the truth?’ (Qur’an 3:181-184) [3]
Islam
ethics differ from Christianity because they believe there are no moral
absolutes. They believe that there is a
code of morals on earth, which must be followed and kept if one wished to go to
heaven. However, they also believe that
this code of morals is not applicable in heaven. In other words, the moral laws of this earth
do not bind Allah. Hence, if he tells
someone to go and murder someone else, it is perfectly justified that that
person go and perform the deed, because it is right in heaven, in Allah’s eyes. Muslims try hard to keep the moral laws and
ethics set out in the Qur’an and other sacred books because they believe that
they cannot enter heaven unless their good deeds outweigh their bad deeds. The fear of spending eternity in hell is a
very real fear for them, and they are very cautious in how they act.
Finally,
Muslims believe that Allah created the world, although the number of days is
not clearly defined in the Qur’an. In
some passages, it states that the world was made in six days, while in other it
says Allah took eight days to create it.
Like Christians, Muslims are divided on whether the days referred to in
the passage means literal days, or rather eras of time. Traditional Muslims believe in the literal
days, while contemporary Muslims, especially students who have been educated in
Western Civilizations, tend to believe in the eras of time. Not many Muslims believe in Evolutions,
mainly because that would mean they doubted the Qur’an, which is something they
try to avoid at any cost.
Secular
Humanists:
Secular Humanists are atheists,
they do not believe that there is a god, they don’t believe in the supernatural
and they don’t believe that there can be a greater power than what we see on
earth. With that effect, therefore,
Secular Humanists believe that science is the highest form of knowledge, and
using science we can explain everything that we see upon this earth, including
the origins of life.
A
Secular Humanist theology, therefore, differs somewhat from a Christian’s and a
Muslim’s beliefs. They believe that
humans are on top of the world, that we are the highest form of life there
is. Accordingly, we have the power to
make this world a better place, if we simply take the time using science to
discover how. We have the world inside
of us, and the solutions, we need to simply learn how to harness those thoughts
and channel them into useful thinking.
Paul Kurtz, a popular Secular Humanist said that man doesn’t need god;
we have the power to save ourselves. We
save ourselves, according to Kurtz, by saving our world. By creating an environment that cannot
selfdestruct, we save ourselves and hence preserve the world for the
generations to come.
Secular
Humanist philosophy includes only the natural side of life. They deny the existence of anything that is
not natural, tangible, and can be explain through natural causes, and tested by
the scientific method. If is cannot be
seen, tested or explained, then it doesn’t exist. Secular Humanists believe that the mind is
merely an extension of the body, that there is no spiritual aspect to the body. They believe that we have no soul and that
when we die - we die. There is no
afterlife, because that is supernatural, and there is no deeper meaning to why
we are here or where we are going.
Secular
Humanists don’t have a set ethical stance, because they are unsure of whether
morality can exist without a religious foundation. Some believe that it cannot, and advocate a
‘no truth thesis’ saying that nothing is wrong and nothing is right. Most Secular Humanists are hesitant to accept
this thesis however, because they can see the complications of having a world
where there are no laws. Other Secular
Humanists say that you can have a moral code without religious background, it
simply needs to be founded within yourself, and what you know within yourself
to be right and true and good. Corliss
Lamont, a leading Secular Humanist says, “Activates that are healthy, socially
useful, and in accordance with reason, please will generally accompany [us];
and happiness, the supreme good will be the eventual result.’ That appears to be the ethical view of most
Secular Humanists – do what you feel makes you happy, healthy and useful and it
will lead to the eventual good of everyone.
Because
the Secular Humanist doesn’t believe in God, or anything supernatural, they
believe the world and all that we see in it today is the result of
evolution. Evolution – put forth by
Charles Darwin - is the theory that billions of years ago, an explosion in the
universe created a few chemicals, which combined, which, over long amounts of
time, formed the first cell. And from
that cell the entire world that we know today evolved. There are a few different strands of
evolution, and Secular Humanists take the view called Neo-Darwinism. Neo-Darwinism takes the general ideas, which
Charles Darwin set forth, and then adds, the theory of mutations to them. It is known by now that Natural Selection –
the process by which creatures can adapt to their environments – cannot explain
a full change from species to species, so Secular Humanists believe that
mutations played a part in that as well.
The theory of evolution rests on six main pillars, according to Secular
Humanists – Spontaneous Generations, Natural Selections, the struggle for
survival, mutations and adaptations, Neo-Darwinism, and the fossil record. These pillars are shaky at best, but if even
one of them falls completely, the whole biological theory of evolution will
come tumbling down.
Marxist-Leninist:
The
Marxist-Leninists worldview is what Communism was founded on. Marxist-Leninists are atheists, and they
believe in the dialectical form of nature.
They live for the day where the rich are no more, the poor no longer
exists, and a perfect, classless society is formed.
The
Marxist-Leninist believes there is no god.
In fact, when Marx was thinking up new ideas and a new worldview, he
simply called it Atheism. Today,
followers of the Marxist-Leninist ideas prefer to be called Scientific Atheists. Marx believed that humanity was god. He claimed that humanity had created god in
our own image, that we created religion in order to worship ourselves. Marx’s goal, therefore, was to remove all
traces of current society, religion, and cultures, and return to a foundational
atheistic base. In his well-known
statement, Marx summed up his beliefs about religion, ‘Religion is the sigh of
the oppressed creature, and the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the
spirit of spiritless conditions. It is
the opium of the people.’ [4]
Like
the Secular Humanists, Marxist-Leninists believe that science is the source of
all true knowledge. They believe that science is infallible, and if it can be
proven using the scientific method, then it must exist. Marxist-Leninists try not to make a stand on
whether the mind is an extension of the physical body, or if it has spiritual
ties as well. However, since they deny
that there is a God or anything supernatural, and then it becomes apparent that
they believe the mind is merely physical.
They also believe in the dialectic form of nature. Dialectics is the concept that each thesis
has an antithesis. These two opposites
clash, struggle, and then a new thesis is formed. That new thesis has an antithesis, which
clashes and so on and so forth until there is only truth left.
Marxist-Leninists
believe that ‘the end justifies the means.’
This is apparent in their ethical view.
They look for the day and the time where a classless society is achieved
– where there are no rich and no poor, no racism, and no scorn. Everyone is equal, they are born equal and
they die equal. Hence, they believe that
anything that helps towards that cause is right and morally good. So if murdering a rich person and
distributing the wealth to the poor occurs, it is smiled upon by
Marxist-Leninists, because it is all part of oppressing the rich and liberating
the poor. Using this moral code,
therefore, people such as Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin and Hitler (although he wasn’t
Marxist-Leninist, he used the same ‘end justifies the means philosophy) can
justify the murder of millions. However,
as we clearly see today, there cannot be more differences between the handful
of people who live upon billions of dollars, and the millions of people who
live below the poverty line, which classifies them as earning less than a
dollar a day. The two societies could
never be further apart, and this clearly shows that ‘the end justifies the
means’ isn’t working, and those millions of people died in vain, because the
end has not be met.
Marxist-Leninists
also believe in Evolution; however they take it from the dialectic
viewpoint. They see the world as in a
constant clash and struggle to achieve perfection. Evolution was a relatively new theory when
Marx was putting together his worldview.
He immediately embraced it as the way to explain the origin of life
without including any supernatural power.
However, the theory of Evolution actually clashes with the
Marxist-Leninist view of dialectics.
Classical Darwinism requires a lot of time and slow and gradual
change. Dialectics requires short blasts
of rapid change, followed by long periods of struggle before the new thesis is
produced. So Marxist-Leninists now
accept a branch of Evolution called Punctuated Equilibrium. Punctuated Equilibrium claims that evolution
occurred in short sharp bursts followed by eras of dormancy. This explains away the lack of evidence in
the fossil record. One would expect the
fossil record to show many transitional forms, if Classical Darwinism was
true. However, there are no transitional
fossils. Punctuated Equilibrium explains
that if change happened very quickly, in the space of one or two generations,
then transitional fossils wouldn’t have time to form.
Cosmic
Humanists:
Cosmic
Humanists are not atheists. In fact,
they believe that everything is spiritual, everything and everyone is a
god. They believe that we are gods
ourselves, and we contain all the answers to the world’s problem and issues
inside ourselves, and we can attain an inner consciousness if we just take the
time to mediate and really get inside ourselves.
Cosmic
Humanists believe that everything has a spirit, and everything is
spiritual. This belief is called
pantheism. They don’t believe in an
inspired book, such as the Bible, the Qur’an or Confucius. Instead, they believe that everyone has the
answers within themselves. To them,
Jesus is no more than a good example of a man who achieved perfection and
godhead, by perfect self-consciousness and inner belief. Cosmic Humanists believe that when we die, we
are reincarnated into this world into the soul of someone else. ‘This belief in reincarnations caused
[Shirley] MacLaine, when recalling her daughter’s birth, to muse, ‘When the
doctor brought her to me in that hospital bed on that afternoon in 1956, had
she already lived many, many times before, within other mothers? Had she, in fact, been one herself? Had she, in fact, ever been my mother? Was her one-hour-old face housing a soul
perhaps millions of years old?’’ [5]
Cosmic
Humanists don’t agree with the Naturalistic view of the world’s
philosophy. They believe that everything
is spiritual, that everything is a god.
Hence, they believe that the natural world doesn’t exist, that all that
we see is what we perceive in our spirits.
Matter is merely a manifestation of the spirit. They also believe that truth is an emotive,
not an absolute. Truth and knowledge
don’t contain the meaning of life. They
believe that there are ultimate realities – but the individual determines these
ultimate realities. We have to look within
ourselves for the answers. Because of
this, everyone will have their own absolute realities, and these realities are
only true for the individuals.
Cosmic
Humanists don’t believe in moral absolutes.
Rather, they believe that the truth for each and every person lies
within the individual. Each and every
person has to determine what is right and wrong according to him or her, and
what is right for one person doesn’t necessarily mean it is right for anyone
else. With this reasoning, therefore,
Cosmic Humanist believe that you cannot judge another for their beliefs or
actions, because you don’t know what is right and wrong for them. When everyone chooses their own morals, then
the line between what is right and what is wrong becomes blurred beyond recognition. There becomes no right and there becomes no
wrong. Cosmic Humanists believe that the
world is one – one spirit, one god. This
essentially means that good and evil are, in fact, one. They also believe in Karma. The Karma is the belief that what is wrong in
one life isn’t wrong in another life. So
if you are a criminal, and then are reincarnated – you cannot be punished for
what you did in previous lives. This
sense of ‘justice’ really renders justice obsolete, as no one can be punished
for anything, by simply claiming it was in another life, where the particular
action was allowed.
Cosmic
Humanists also believe in Evolution.
However, they take a different slant to it than most other
worldviews. They focus on the evolution
of man rather than the evolution of the world and nature. They view the evolution of man not as
becoming a bigger and better individual, but instead as evolving a higher
consciousness as to whom he is as a god.
Cosmic Humanists believe that once a few people have attained perfect
self-consciousness, they will ascend into godhead. They will then create a sort of vacuum, which
pulls all of humanity into the godhead as well.
With this belief, Cosmic Humanists know that they needn’t convert people
to their religion before they can achieve perfect consciousness and godhead,
because everyone will swirled into that state with the ascension of a few
faithful Cosmic Humanists.
Postmodernists:
Postmodernists are a group of
people that influence today’s society and culture more than we realise, and the
views that many of them hold, are becoming more and more apparent in today’s
societies, schools and workplaces. They
believe that there is no truth, no metanarrative, no reality, no spirits, no
god and no supernatural. Nothing can
bring us knowledge, nothing can bring us truth, and we simply have what we
perceive through our eyes determined by our circumstances and our
environment.
Postmodernists are atheists,
although they cannot give a concrete answers as to why they are atheists. They believe that there is not enough
evidence to prove there is a god, but there is not enough evidence to prove
that there isn't either. Friedreich
Nietzsche summed up Postmodernist’s beliefs about God and the supernatural by
saying, “God is dead; we have killed him.”
By this, he doesn't mean that there once was a god, and now we have got
rid of him, but he means that we no longer need an explanation of the beginning
of the world, our origins, we have become self-sufficient and with that, the
need for a god has died out.
Postmodernists believe that one should be tolerant of everyone else’s
beliefs, because none can be true, so why bother making a fuss over them?
Postmodernist philosophy is based
heavily on the fact that they believe there is no truth. Meanings have become obsolete, because there
is no point to life. They apply a
technique called Literacy Deconstruction, where they read any passage of
writing and find a new meaning relative to them. The meaning they come up with may very well
be the absolute opposite of the true meaning, but that doesn’t matter because
they have discovered what is right for them.
They also believe language is subjected to interpretations. In other words, it doesn’t matter what you
say, the interpretations is what matters.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer lists several points that make up postmodern
philosophy. They are as follows: “1) the
mark of the postmodern condition of knowledge is a move away from the authority
of universal science toward narrative of local knowledge. 2) Postmodernists
reject the notion of universal rationality; reason is always situated within
particular narratives, traditions, institutions and practises. 3) Postmodernists reject unifying,
totalising, universals schemes in favour of new emphases on difference,
plurality, fragmentation, and complexity. 4) Postmodernists reject the notion
that the person is an autonomous individual with a ration consciousness that
transcends his or her particular place in culture, language, history and
gendered body. 5) Postmodernists agree
with Nietzsche’s that ‘God’ (that is to say, the supreme being of classical
theism) has become unbelievable, as have the autonomous self and the meaning of
history. 6) What we know about things is
linguistically, culturally, and socially constructed. 7) Language stands for the socially
constructed order within which we think and move and have our being.’ [6]
There are three main strands of
Evolution: Classical Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism and Punctuated Equilibrium. However, Postmodernists tend not to endorse
any one view. They believe that there
are no metanarrative, which is to say there is no one story that applies to
everybody. Hence, claiming that there is
only way, which the world was brought into existence, is a metanarrative, and
has to be avoided. Postmodernists
believe that if you claim there is a metanarrative, you are oppressing the
portion of the population, which the metanarrative doesn’t apply to. This form of thinking also means that
Postmodernists believe history is not worth studying because it oppresses the
people groups who don’t get a hearing in the narrative. They believe you can only base your
experiences on yourself, your current situations, and your current environment.
Conclusion:
The
six major worldviews which have been discussed above: Christianity, Islam,
Secular Humanists, Marxist-Leninists, Cosmic Humanists and Postmodernists all
have conflicting views and stances on every aspect of life. They each attempt to construct a worldview
that is complete and answers the main questions that every worldview must
answer. ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Where am I
going?’ are the most important questions which everyone answers for
themselves. Some never find the truth,
others believe they have the truth, and others know they have found the
answers.
Christian
theology is different from every other worldview because Christians believe in
a God who loves them and call us His children.
He made the way for us, all we have to do is accept and believe His
Providence. Muslims believe that there
is only one god, Allah. However, Allah
doesn’t call them his children, rather, they are his servants. And Allah doesn’t save them, only the
people’s good works can save them and grant them acceptance into heaven. Cosmic Humanists believe that we are gods, if
only we would realise your potential and ascend into our rightful place of the
godhead. Secular Humanists,
Marxist-Leninists and Postmodernists believe that there is no god that we have killed
him that we no longer need the ‘walking-cane’ of religion, which people have
used for thousands of years.
Cosmic
Humanist philosophy is all about the individual, where mediations and deep
reflections can open up our inner consciousness and help us achieve perfect
unity in godhead. Postmodernists, on the
other hand, believe there is no truth and no reality so they cannot prove that
anything is wrong and cannot prove that anything is right. The only ‘truth’, to call it such, is what
the individual decides for him or herself.
Christian philosophy is based on the verse in 1 Peter, ‘Give reason for
the hope that is in us.’ Christians
believe in the natural and the supernatural, as do Muslims. Muslims base their philosophy on that of the
ancient Greeks. They believe there is a
God, and that we have a soul, which will live eternally in either heaven or
hell. Secular Humanists, however,
believe that the natural and tangible world is all that there is. What cannot be seen, touched or proven using
the scientific method, doesn’t exist.
And Marxist-Leninists base their philosophy on the hope that one day; a
perfect, united, classless society will be achieved.
Postmodernist
ethics are based on the fact that there is no truth. There is no right, and there is no
wrong. This is strikingly different from
the Christian and Muslim viewpoints, which believe there are moral absolutes
and laws that must be followed on earth, and Christians will add, as it is in
heaven. Marxist-Leninists believe that
the end justifies the means. As long as
the goal is towards a worthy end, all and any means can be used to secure
it. Cosmic Humanists believe, much
similar to Postmodernists that the individual must determine ethics and morals,
and you mustn’t judge others because you don’t know their journey and their
circumstances that have led them to their current convictions about
morality. And Secular Humanists are not
sure what they think about morality and ethics, because they aren’t convinced
they can have a strong moral code without having first a religious background
and foundation.
Once
again, Christian biology stands alone against all the other worldviews. Christians believe that God created the world
in six literal days and that He rested on the seventh. They also believe that God created man perfect
and sinless, but man fell from God’s grace and sinned. With this fall of man, we are now born sinful
and into a sinful, dying world. However,
God sent Jesus as a perfect atonement for our sins, and is willing to save us
from our plight of death and destruction if only we ask Him. Muslims also believe that the world was
created, by Allah, but they are shaky on the details, with some portions of the
Qur’an stating the world was created in six days, while in other places saying
it was created in eight. Secular
Humanists, Marxist-Leninists and Cosmic Humanists all believe in some form of
evolution, a theory that is flawed and shaky at best. Only the will to have a means of explaining
the world’s origin without a God or a supernatural force keeps the theory
alive. Postmodernists are reluctant to
accept any one view about the world’s origins, as it would oppress those who
don’t believe the same as they do.
And
so, in conclusion, we see that Christianity is the only worldview that can
sufficiently answer - and answer satisfactorily – the questions of this
world. Only by turning to Jesus, who is
the Truth, will we know the answers to life’s greatest mysteries and
marvels.
[1] Noebel,
David. Understanding the Times location
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[2] New King
James Version.
[3] Qur’an
[4] Marx,
K.E (1974) On Religion. New York,
NY. Schocken Books.
[5] Noebel,
D.A. (2005) Understanding the Times: Revised Second Edition. Manitou Springs, CO: Summit.
[6]
Vanhoozer, K.J. (2003) Postmodern Theology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press
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