Before we dig into this too much, we need to define the term worldview.  What is a worldview?

A worldview is our governing mindset based upon Biblical presuppositional beliefs that are convictional, which filters, approves or disapproves all matters of life.

And the most primary of those presuppositional beliefs are the answers to four questions:

Origin – Where did I come from?
Purpose – Why am I here?
Identity – Who am I?
Destiny – Where am I going?

Biblical worldview development is difficult for us today because there are two competing presuppositional belief systems, both claiming to have the truth, the answers to those four questions.  But both are mutually exclusive, and both were separately designed by the primary spiritual figures, who are battling for our souls:  God and Satan.

2 Timothy 3:1-2:

But realize this, in the last days, difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self…

We might call this the evolutionization of believers.  And it makes developing a biblical worldview difficult.

The danger here is mainly due to the fact that evolutionism claims to be scientific.  And you are convinced it is.  Let me tell you, this is the greatest deception of our times.

A biblical worldview has many more aspects than just creation, but creation is foundational to all of them.  Placing creation and early earth history, from Genesis 1-11, in its proper place allows a biblical worldview to provide guidance and priority for all aspects of our lives.

God’s relationship with you, and your relationship with him.
God’s relationship with your family, and your relationship with your family.
God’s relationship with your vocation, and your relationship with your vocation.
God’s relationship with your local church, and your relationship with your local church.
God’s relationship with your state/government, and your relationship with your state/government.

See, we have these four questions, about our Origin, our Purpose, our Identity, and our Destiny.  And we are seeking answers.  But we will view those answers through the filter of our worldview.  We will either see them through the lenses of the world, through evolutionism.  Or we will see them through the lenses of the Bible, God’s Word.

So here we have this huge debate.  This battle for our worldviews.  But it isn’t simply science versus religion.

Paul identifies the nature of this conflict in Romans 1:24-25:

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.  For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

In the Greek, the language Paul wrote this in, it’s even more forceful.  Paul says they exchanged THE truth… for THE lie.

That’s the battle.  That’s the great debate here.  But what?

The truth about what?  Romans 1:20 and again in 25:  For since the creation of the world…

Origins.

The lie about what?  Origins…

Our presuppositional belief (our faith) about the origin, the creation, of the universe, life, man….  Our belief is vital to the answers to those four questions that we accept as truth:  Origin, Purpose, Identity, Destiny.

Why?  Because it is on this platform, origins, that we establish who owns us, and therefore who we are to worship and serve.  Who we worship and serve automatically defines our identity, purpose and destiny.

Paul explains this idea in Romans 6:16:

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

So Paul is telling us, in Romans 1, in effect, that this truth is the foundation for all other truths; and this lie is the foundation for all other falsehoods.  This explains the use of the definite article “the” in each case:  the truth, the lie.

And so, in order to develop a biblical worldview, the creation piece is foundational to all other aspects of a biblical worldview.

Materialistic, naturalistic evolutionism is the absolute antithesis to the Genesis creation answer to our questions about our Origin, Purpose, Identity, and Destiny.

And so we have a choice.  Either we accept God’s Word at face value, and trust that what he has said is true.  Or we toss out his revelation of truth and accept man’s philosophy about our origins, our purpose, our identity, and our destiny.

And predominately, in our culture, worldwide, we have accepted man’s ideas.  We have torn Genesis out of our Bibles.  And if the Bible doesn’t speak truth about our origins, then we cannot accept its truth about anything else, including our salvation.  If you throw away part of it as untrue, it casts doubt on all of.

Either God’s Word is true, or it isn’t.  And if it isn’t, then we have no purpose.

If it is true, then we need to start living like we believe it.

If we don’t, then we are on a slippery slope.

Chuck Colson, in The Faith, says this:

During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, nonbelieving philosophers and scientists argued that since God wasn’t necessary for explaining Creation, he wasn’t necessary to explain the moral order either.  Reason alone could govern.

The problem is that reason without revelation lacks authority, which leads to chaos and tyranny.

Chaos and tyranny.  That’s language that brings visions of war to mind.

And that leads us to the battle for our worldview.  I’ll talk about that in my next post.

Question: Are there any other foundational questions that you believe are crucial to a biblical worldview? You can leave a comment by clicking here.