Description
Find the author(s) {one or two} who can disagree with you about your world view definition and refute his/her points of view. One paragraph (200 words).
While exploring your worldview and gathering examples based on your personal experience and personal observation, you should always try to identify to identify the most obvious – and even the not-so-obvious – objections to your position. By directly addressing these objections to your essay, you will help convince readers that your own position is valid. This part of writing, called refutation, is essential to making the strongest case possible.
You can refute opposing argumentation by showing that they are unsound, unfair, or inaccurate.
Sample of Student Writing
REFUTATION PARAGRAPH
(Introductory sentence) My worldview is very fluid and open to other points of views and experiences. (Transition) In contrast, some people are very sure about their worldview and do not give any wiggle room for ideas that do not suit their own. (Explanation of the opposing view). For example,“Building a Biblical Worldview”, Howse solely approaches the worldview from the Christian point of view, stating, “Each worldview question digs into a core Christian doctrine, and taken together, they construct a clear picture of how to apply Biblical Worldview to every issue and action in life” (Howse 1). (Refutation) This is only a way of examining the worldview that applies to Christians, and it excludes anyone who does not read the Bible from the conversation. Brannon Howse’s a point of view only leaves room for one mode of examination when deciphering a person’s worldview. Christianity and believing in god can be an option when finding one’s worldview, but it should not be the only option. (CONCLUSION) The worldview discussion must be open to all walks of life and belief systems. People should be able to prescribe to any belief system that suits them.
Editing: Do not use “I’ and “you”.
Use the parenthetical citation to acknowledge the sources you will use.
Watch the following tutorials:
1. Counterargument and Refutation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu2tf9Vta0wLinks to an external site.
2. Writing Counterargument Paragraphs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ig32Ensl4ILinks to an external site.
3. Counterarguments and Rebuttals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-C_ffXjDJELinks to an external site.
Supplementary Reading:
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“Indigenous Worldviews vs Western Worldviews’
January 26, 2016
“Any individual within a culture is going to have his or her own personal interpretation of the collective cultural code; however, the individual’s world view has its roots in the culture – that is, in the society’s shared philosophy, values and customs. If we are to understand how Aboriginal and Eurocentric worldviews clash, we need to understand how the philosophy, values and customs of Aboriginal culture differ from those of Eurocentric cultures” [1]
The world we live in is multicultural with a corresponding plethora of worldviews. In this article, we provide a definition of “worldviews” and a comparison of Indigenous and Western worldview perspectives. Understanding the core differences between Indigenous worldviews and Western worldviews is an important component in achieving cultural harmony and respectful relationships. We are speaking in very general terms in the description of these differences and are in no way indicating that individual Indigenous cultures share the same worldviews; ditto for generalizations of Western worldviews.
FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A WORLDVIEW?
“A worldview can pertain to an individual, group, or society. Overall, a worldview is a set of beliefs and values that are honoured and withheld by a number of people. A worldview includes how the person or group interacts with the world around them, including land, animals, and people. Every person and society has a worldview. Many societies pass on their worldview to their children to ensure worldview continuity. As people interact and learn from one another, it is not uncommon for them to acquire the beliefs of other worldviews. Worldviews evolve as people and societies evolve” [2]
Leroy Little Bear, professor
The root of the difference between the worldviews is that they generally subscribe to opposite approaches to knowledge, connectedness, and science. Indigenous cultures focus on a holistic understanding of the whole that emerged from the millennium of their existence and experiences. Traditional Western worldviews tend to be more concerned with science and concentrate on compartmentalized knowledge and then focus on understanding the bigger, related picture.
EIGHT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN WORLDVIEWS
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Indigenous worldview: Spiritually orientated society. System based on belief and spiritual world.
Western worldview: Scientific, skeptical. Requiring proof as a basis of belief.
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Indigenous worldview: There can be many truths; truths are dependent upon individual experiences.
Western worldview: There is only one truth, based on science or Western-style law.
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Indigenous worldview: Society operates in a state of relatedness. Everything and everyone is related. There is a real belief that people, objects and the environment are all connected. Law, kinship and spirituality reinforce this connectedness. Identity comes from connections.
Western worldview: Compartmentalized society, becoming more so.
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Indigenous worldview: The land is sacred and usually given by a creator or supreme being.
Western worldview: The land and its resources should be available for development and extraction for the benefit of humans.
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Indigenous worldview: Time is non-linear and cyclical in nature. Time is measured in cyclical events. The seasons are central to this cyclical concept.
Western worldview: Time is usually linearly structured and future-orientated. The framework of months, years, days etc reinforces the linear structure.
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Indigenous worldview: Feeling comfortable is measured by the quality of your relationships with people.
Western worldview: Feeling comfortable is related to how successful you feel you have been in achieving your goals.
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Indigenous worldview: Human beings are not the most important in the world.
Western worldview: Human beings are the most important in the world.
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Indigenous worldview: Amassing wealth is important for the good of the community
Western worldview: Amassing wealth is for personal gain
It also has been suggested that in any society there is a dominant worldview that is held by most members of that society. Alternative worldviews do exist, but they are not usually held by the majority of society. [4]
“We must learn to live together or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Understanding and respecting the differences in worldviews will help in relationship-building between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. So, if you ever find yourself in a situation in which you encounter an opposing worldview and are perhaps not quite understanding it, we suggest you open the “curiosity” portal in your mind and try really hard to see across worldviews. This is what is meant by cultural competency.
This is a very brief description of the basic differences between Indigenous Peoples’ worldviews and western worldviews. We encourage readers to do further reading to expand their knowledge of the topics we present on our blog.
Adapted from Working with Aboriginal Worldviews, Anne Mead
in “Journal of Indigenous Voices in Social Work”.
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“What Is A Worldview & Why It Matters?”
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By Brandon Clay
January 6, 2018
Short Answer
What is a worldview? A worldview is “the sum total of our beliefs about the world.” (Chuck Colson). We all have a worldview, it consists of certain parts, and leads to real-life actions.
Long Answer
Have you ever put on colored glasses? Slip on those colored glasses and everything you see takes on a shade of the lens color. If you put on red colored glasses, everything takes on a different hue of red. If you put on green colored glasses, then everything looks green – and so on. That’s like a worldview.
Definition: Worldview
A worldview is a way you look at the world. It’s the lens through which you interpret all your experience and through which you make decisions. It’s your colored glasses you wear, even if you don’t know you’re wearing them. More technically, according to David Noebel, author of Understanding the Times (Focus on the FamilyLinks to an external site.), a worldview is…
“The framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. “[It’s] any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world and man’s relations to God and the world.”
That’s a great definition. But sometimes it helps to sum up many words with a few. So a more simple understanding comes from Chuck Colson who once said, a worldview is “the sum total of our beliefs about the world.” (Focus on the Family)
Everybody has a worldview. That worldview may not be well-developed or the person holding it may not be able to articulate it clearly, but each person has a distinct way they interpret their world. For instance, each of these people have a worldview…
The crying 2-year old who believes he’s the center of the universe.
The atheist biology professor who just finished a lecture on Neo-Darwinism.
The Christian pastor who just posted a blog on his church’s website.
The Hindu technical support rep who just answered your computer question.
The stay-at-home mom who just finished cooking dinner.
You and I have our own worldview too. Whenever we overhear a conversation from someone in a coffee shop, or stumble upon lewd website, or when we read an unbelievable news story, we automatically file that new information into a grid of prior understanding. That understanding is our worldview.
Parts of a Worldview
A worldview, like a philosophy, has different aspects. Depending on the teacher, some divide worldviews by a few parts and others by many parts. Here’s a simple, but not too expansive worldview framework. Every worldview includes the following 8 areas:
God (Theology)
Knowledge (Epistemology)
Origin (Cosmology)
Humanity (Anthropology)
Morality (Ethics)
Salvation (Soteriology)
Meaning (Teleology)
Destiny (Eschatology)
God (Theology) – Every worldview has a theology – it says something about God or the divine. The view may be very precise or vague, explicit or implicit, negative or positive (i.e. atheistic vs. theistic), but every worldview talks about God.
Knowledge (Epistemology) – Likewise, worldviews usually attempt to explain knowledge: what we can know and how we can know it. It also comments on closely related subjects, like truth, logic, reason, experience, intuition, and revelation.
Origin (Cosmology) – Worldviews always explicitly or implicitly tell us where we came from. For instance, the secular worldviews relies on some form of molecules-to-man evolution. Biblical Christianity teaches special creation in six days a few thousand years ago.
Humanity (Anthropology) – In the same way, every worldview has a take on human beings. It represents a certain perspective on humanity. It articulates our origin, uniqueness (or non-uniqueness), purpose, nature, and destiny. Worldviews always address what we are and our significance.
Morality (Ethics) – Each worldview also has a distinct take on goodness and morality. Ethics covers areas like the highest good, whether morality is objective or subjective, what is right and wrong, and rewards for doing good or judgments for doing evil.
Salvation (Soteriology) – Worldviews also include a “salvation story.” When Christians hear the word ‘salvation’ we tend to think salvation from sin, death, and hell through the atoning work of Jesus. But here ‘salvation’ is more generic: what is the basic human problem and what is the solution to that problem.
Meaning (Teleology) – What is the meaning of life? Every worldview aims to answers this question. The answer to this question in each worldview tells us why we are even here.
Destiny (Eschatology) – Finally, a worldview tells us something about the destiny of the universe and everyone in it. Though the end has not happened yet, each worldview describes what will happen based on their understanding of reality and revelation.
Worldview Describes Your Beliefs Which Lead To Your Actions
In addition, every component of a worldview is interrelated. Theology relates to anthropology and anthropology relates to knowledge, and so on. What you believe about God has a direct impact on what you believe about humanity and our ultimate destiny.
These worldview components also affect how you will live your life and your ethics. And your ethics lead to real world actions. Then think about it like this…
Thought Experiment: The Atheist & The Mentally Ill Child
Pretend you’re an atheist. In your atheist mind, us humans are just a cosmic accident floating on a remote rock in a cold, dying universe. We are stardust, as an old song says. That’s a standard understanding in an atheistic worldview. If that’s true, what makes killing a mentally ill child wrong?
You may think it’s wrong because it feels wrong, and it’s not something you really want to do. But if you’re a consistent atheist, can you really justify your uncomfortable feelings about murder? Perhaps that’s just your unreasonable self who hasn’t come to terms with your atheism just yet. In your new reality, that child is just stardust and you’re stardust too.
So what’s really wrong with some stardust snuffing out another speck of stardust in the mind of an atheist?
See how one aspect of someone’s worldview can affect their life. And that’s just one example of how someone’s atheism (theology) affects their view of a mentally challenged person (humanity) and whether it’s okay to kill that person (ethics).
Of Worldviews and Philosophies
Studying worldview is a fascinating area. It’s essentially a fresh way to consider yours or others basic philosophy of life. Worldview analysis can uncover what you and your friends believe which can be helpful in important conversations.
Suffice to say: we all have a worldview, it consists of certain parts, and it describes your foundational beliefs which leads to real-life actions.
Resources
James Anderson: What it Takes to Make a Worldview
Del Tacket: What’s A Christian Worldview?
Matt Slick: What Are Some Christian Worldview Essentials?
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NOV 25, 2014
Worldview and Culture. Culture, Christianity and Culture
“On Worldviews”.
By James Anderson
What is a worldview? As the word itself suggests, a worldview is an overall view of the world. It’s not a physical view of the world, but rather a philosophical view, an all-encompassing perspective on everything that exists and matters to us.
A person’s worldview represents his most fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the universe he inhabits. It reflects how he would answer all the “big questions” of human existence: fundamental questions about who and what we are, where we came from, why we’re here, where (if anywhere) we’re headed, the meaning and purpose of life, the nature of the afterlife, and what counts as a good life here and now. Few people think through these issues in any depth, and fewer still have firm answers to such questions, but a person’s worldview will at least incline him toward certain kinds of answers and away from others.
Worldviews shape and inform our experiences of the world around us. Like spectacles with colored lenses, they affect what we see and how we see it. Depending on the “color” of the lenses, some things may be seen more easily, or conversely, they may be de-emphasized or distorted—indeed, some things may not be seen at all.
Worldviews also largely determine people’s opinions on matters of ethics and politics. What a person thinks about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex relationships, environmental ethics, economic policy, public education, and so on will depend on his underlying worldview more than anything else.
As such, worldviews play a central and defining role in our lives. They shape what we believe and what we’re willing to believe, how we interpret our experiences, how we behave in response to those experiences, and how we relate to others. Our thoughts and our actions are conditioned by our worldviews.
Each of these worldviews has profound implications for how people think about themselves, what behaviors they consider right or wrong, and how they orient their lives.
Worldviews operate at both the individual level and the societal level. Rarely will two people have exactly the same worldview, but they may share the same basic type of worldview. Moreover, within any society, certain worldview types will be represented more prominently than others, and will therefore exert greater influence on the culture of that society. Western civilization since around the fourth century has been dominated by a Christian worldview, even though there have been individuals and groups who have challenged it. But in the last couple of centuries, for reasons ranging from the technological to the theological, the Christian worldview has lost its dominance, and competing worldviews have become far more prominent. These non-Christian worldviews include:
Naturalism: there is no God; humans are just highly evolved animals; the universe is a closed physical system.
Postmodernism: there are no objective truths and moral standards; “reality” is ultimately a human social construction.
Pantheism: God is the totality of reality; thus, we are all divine by nature.
Pluralism: the different world religions represent equally valid perspectives on the ultimate reality; there are many valid paths to salvation.
Islam: there is only one God, and He has no son; God has revealed His will for all people through His final prophet, Muhammad, and His eternal word, the Qur’an.
Moralistic therapeutic deism: God just wants us to be happy and nice to other people; He intervenes in our affairs only when we call on Him to help us out.
Each of these worldviews has profound implications for how people think about themselves, what behaviors they consider right or wrong, and how they orient their lives. It is therefore crucial that Christians be able to engage with unbelief at the worldview level. Christians need to understand not only what it means to have a biblical worldview, but also why they should hold fast to that worldview and apply it to all of life. They should be able to identify the major non-Christian worldviews that vie for dominance in our society, to understand where they fundamentally differ from the Christian worldview, and to make a well-reasoned case that the Christian worldview alone is true, good, and beautiful.
The challenge is greater than ever. But we shouldn’t be discouraged, because the opportunities and resources available to us are also greater now than they have ever been. In the last half-century or so there has been a remarkable renaissance in Christian philosophy and apologetics, much of which has focused on developing and defending a biblical worldview. Whatever God calls His people to do, He equips them to do (see Eph. 4:11-12; Heb. 13:20-21). The problem is not that the church is under-equipped, but that she has yet to make full use of what Christ has provided for her.
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“What in the World Is a Worldview?”
January 31, 2014by: James N. Anderson
This article is part of the What In the World Is a Worldview? series.
What It TAKES to Make a Worldview
In the first three articles in this series I introduced the concept of a worldview and explained why it is beneficial to think in terms of worldviews. In this article, I want to go into more detail about what a worldview is and what makes up a worldview.
Earlier I defined a worldview as an overall view of the world—specifically, a philosophical view of all of reality. Here’s a more technical and precise definition of a worldview:
A worldview is a network of ultimate beliefs, assumptions, values, and ideas about the universe and our place in it that shapes how a person understands their life and experiences (and the lives and experiences of others) and how that person acts in response.
But what exactly are these ultimate beliefs, assumptions, values, and ideas? What do they concern? In teaching on this subject I’ve found it helpful to use a simple acronym—TAKES—to break down a worldview into five basic areas or subdivisions:
Theology
Anthropology
Knowledge
Ethics
Salvation
With these five key areas in view, we can identify the basic ‘ingredients’ of a worldview. We can see what it TAKES to make a worldview. Let’s consider each area in turn.
Theology
Theology (from the Greek word theos) is most simply defined as the study of God. Every worldview has a theology; that’s to say, it reflects some kind of perspective on God. Its view of God may be very precise or it may be very vague. It may be explicit or implicit. It may be primarily negative in its perspective, focusing more on what God isn’t than what God is. But every worldview has a ‘take’ on God.
Some key questions we might ask of a worldview under this heading would be:
Is there a God? (The most important question of all!)
What is God like?
Is God a perfect being?
Is God a personal being?
How does God relate to the world? (According to some worldviews, God is transcendent and distinct from the world; according to others, God is identical to the world; still others take a position somewhere in-between.)
How does God relate to human beings in general?
How does God relate to me?
You might think that atheistic worldviews cannot have a theology because they deny there’s a God in the first place. But even atheistic worldviews have something to say about God, even if it’s only that he doesn’t exist! Moreover, when atheists deny the existence of God they still have some conception of what God would be like if he existed. (Otherwise, how could they know what they’re denying?)
Even atheistic worldviews, then, have a kind of theology, albeit a negative one. In fact, we can go further and observe that every worldview has its own ‘god’ in the sense that it posits some kind of ultimate reality (e.g., physical particles) and some kind of ultimate authority (e.g., science). What a worldview affirms about ultimate reality and ultimate authority functions as its theology.
Anthropology
Anthropology (from the Greek word anthropos: ‘man’ or ‘mankind’) is the study of human beings. Just as every worldview has its own theology, so every worldview also has its own anthropology. It represents a certain perspective on humanity, on our fundamental nature and purpose.
Some key questions we might ask of a worldview under this heading would be:
What are human beings? What kind of beings are we? (Are we creatures made in the image of God? Are we gods-in-embryo? Are we the unintended products of naturalistic evolution? Something else altogether?)
Where did we come from? (Note how this is closely related to the first question!)
Are we purely physical beings or embodied souls?
Are we special or unique in any way?
Do we exist for any particular reason or purpose?
Are we basically good, or basically bad, or something in-between?
Already you should be able to see how the first two areas of a worldview are closely connected. What we believe about God has significant implications for what we believe about ourselves, and vice versa.
Knowledge
Knowledge is widely viewed as a very useful and important thing. Knowledge is certainly more valuable than mere opinion. If I were to tell you that eating a whole raw cabbage every day would add a decade to your life, it would matter to you whether I really knew that to be true!
A worldview will typically have something to say about our knowledge: about what we can know and how we can know it. It will also have things to say on closely related subjects, such as truth, logic, reason, experience, intuition, and revelation. (All of these topics fall under what philosophers call ‘epistemology’.)
A worldview will typically have something to say about our knowledge: about what we can know and how we can know it.
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Some key questions we might ask of a worldview under this heading would be:
Can we know anything at all?
What can we know about God?
What can we know about the universe?
What can we know about ourselves?
What is the best kind of knowledge to have?
How do we know what we know? (Or to put the question another way: What are the sources of knowledge? Divine revelation? Reason? Intuition? Science? Sensory experiences? Mystical experiences?)
Are there any limits to our knowledge?
What are the best ways to improve and expand our knowledge?
Ethics
Just as every worldview has a distinctive take on truth and knowledge, so it has a distinctive take on goodness and morality. To borrow from the title of a book by Francis Schaeffer: every worldview has something to say in answer to the question, “How should we then live?”
Some key questions we might ask of a worldview under this heading would be:
What is the highest or ultimate good? (God? Love? Knowledge? Pleasure? Power?)
Is morality real or merely illusory? Are some things really right or wrong?
Is morality objective or subjective?
Are there any moral absolutes?
If morality is always relative, what is it relative to? (The individual? The community? The species?)
How do we knowwhat is right or wrong? (Note the connection here between ethics and knowledge.)
Why should we try to be good anyway?
Are we ultimately accountable to anything or anyone for the way we live?
Salvation
Last, but not least, every worldview has a “salvation story” to tell. When Christians hear the word ‘salvation’ we tend immediately to think of it in terms of the biblical gospel: salvation from sin, death, and hell through the atoning work of Jesus Christ. But here I’m using the term ‘salvation’ in a more generic sense. Under this heading I’m referring to what a worldview says or implies about the basic human problem and the solution to that problem.
Everyone thinks there’s something wrong with the world. (Do you know anyone who thinks the world is just right in every way?) Even those who deny in theory the reality of good and evil find it hard, if not impossible, to apply their theory consistently in practice. For example, they’ll often want to say that we will be better off once we recognize the non-reality of good and evil—but that seems to presuppose our current situation isn’t as good as it could be! Everyone thinks our lives could be better in certain ways than they are now, and when pressed they will tend to generalize or boil things down to one general problem.
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“What’s Your Worldview?”
James N. Anderson
Highly creative and interactive, this apologetics resource helps readers identify and evaluate 21 different worldviews through engaging yes-or-no questions and easy-to-understand descriptions. Appendices include answers to common questions and suggestions for further reading.
Some key questions we might ask of a worldview under this heading would be:
What is humanity’s most basic problem?
What (if anything) is the solution to that problem?
Are there multiple solutions?
What part (if any) do we play in solving the problem?
What part (if any) does God play in solving the problem?
What are the prospects for the problem being solved?
All Interrelated
It’s important to see that these five areas—Theology, Anthropology, Knowledge, Ethics, and Salvation—are closely interrelated. What a person believes in one area will inevitably affect what they believe in other areas. What you believe about God has implications for your view of human beings: our nature, origins, purpose, and destiny. What you believe about God and human beings will in turn influence your views on what we can know, how we should live, what our basic problem is, and how that problem can (and should) be solved.
One final observation. While everyone has a worldview, relatively few people are aware that they have a worldview and fewer still have critically reflected on their worldview. People generally don’t have well-defined beliefs or convictions in the five areas I’ve outlined here. They’ve never even considered most of the questions I’ve listed here, let alone taken the time to formulate coherent answers to them. Nevertheless, if they were asked those questions they would be inclined towards certain answers rather than others. Even where people lack distinct beliefs about ultimate matters, their thoughts, actions, and interpretations of the world nevertheless reflect various unconscious assumptions and dispositions. And the more they are prompted to consider these fundamental issues, the more worldview-aware they will become.
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“WHAT’S A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW?”
BY DEL TACKETT
JANUARY 1, 2006
A recent nationwide survey completed by the Barna Research Group determined that only 4 percent of Americans had a “biblical” worldview. When George Barna, who has researched cultural trends and the Christian Church since 1984, looked at the “born- again” believers in America, the results were a dismal 9 percent.
Barna’s survey also connected an individual’s worldview with his or her moral beliefs and actions. Barna says, “Although most people own a Bible and know some of its content, our research found that most Americans have little idea how to integrate core biblical principles to form a unified and meaningful response to the challenges and opportunities of life.”
1. What’s a worldview?
A worldview is the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. “[It’s] any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world and man’s relations to God and the world,” says David Noebel, author of Understanding the Times.
For example, a 2-year-old believes he’s the center of his world, a secular humanist believes that the material world is all that exists, and a Buddhist believes he can be liberated from suffering by self-purification.
Someone with a biblical worldview believes his primary reason for existence is to love and serve God.
Whether conscious or subconscious, every person has some type of worldview. A personal worldview is a combination of all you believe to be true, and what you believe becomes the driving force behind every emotion, decision and action. Therefore, it affects your response to every area of life: from philosophy to science, theology and anthropology to economics, law, politics, art and social order — everything.
For example, let’s suppose you have bought the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder (secular relative truth) as opposed to beauty as defined by God’s purity and creativity (absolute truth). Then any art piece, no matter how vulgar or abstract, would be considered “art,” a creation of beauty.
2. What’s a biblical worldview?
A biblical worldview is based on the infallible Word of God. When you believe the Bible is entirely true, then you allow it to be the foundation of everything you say and do. That means, for instance, you take seriously the mandate in Romans 13 to honor the governing authorities by researching the candidates and issues, making voting a priority.
Do you have a biblical worldview? Answer the following questions, based on claims found in the Bible and which George Barna used in his survey:
Do absolute moral truths exist?
Is absolute truth defined by the Bible?
Did Jesus Christ live a sinless life?
Is God the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe, and does He still rule it today?
Is salvation a gift from God that cannot be earned?
Is Satan real?
Does a Christian have a responsibility to share his or her faith in Christ with other people?
Is the Bible accurate in all of its teachings?
Did you answer yes to these? Only 9 percent of “born- again” believers did. But what’s more important than your yes to these questions is whether your life shows it. Granted, we are all sinners and fall short, but most of our gut reactions will reflect what we deep-down, honest-to-goodness believe to be real and true.
3. How does a biblical worldview get diluted?
Here is the big problem. Nonbiblical worldview ideas don’t just sit in a book somewhere waiting for people to examine them. They bombard us constantly from television, film, music, newspapers, magazines, books and academia.
Because we live in a selfish, fallen world, these ideas seductively appeal to the desi
