Biblical Worldview Of The World

The IMF oversees the exchange rate of currencies and encourages the free convertibility of any currency into another nation’s form of currency. A Biblical Worldview component should be added to the IMF for the purpose of instilling absolute truths to prevent cultural subjectivity and corruption. Having Biblical worldview added as a component provides an authority for absolute truth to be derived from. Absolute truth would be determined through the authority of God and His word. Having God as a standard for morality would help to prevent corruption arising from subjectivity determined by power-alliances and bribery.

As we know, everyone has his or her own worldview. Take a peek into mine as I talk about human identity, natural world, human relationships, and civilization. After reading Genesis 1-11 we’ve seen how God has worked with those four major concepts, and how He has shaped our world today.

How does being familiar with a biblical worldview help us understand the big picture of God’s design, and how can you apply that understanding to your calling?

The early chapters of Genesis assumes that God exists, and they describe a beginning that only God could know. These chapters tell us about the creation of the world as we know it. The natural world was created by God in six days. In these six days God created light, sky, sea, land, and living things (Genesis 1). “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1 NKJV).

In the Bible book of Genesis chapters one through eleven is the story of the creation of the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. This is a story created by God, written by Moses and lived out by everyone, believers and nonbelievers. The first eleven chapters of Genesis do not set out to prove the existence of God, as some are trying to do today. These chapters simply put Him at the center of everything. The beginning of Genesis contains the account of creation, the fall of mankind into sin, procreation leading to civilization, the flood to bring about the re-creation, and finally the culminating account of man marveling in his own effort - the Tower of Babel. All of which creates the foundation of theology and the Christian’s worldview of how God intended things to function in our world. Genesis also forms a foundation for other religious and secular morals which aid in forming a worldview. By placing God at the center of everything, He creates the moral foundational worldview for cultures around the globe. In his book, The Universe Next Door, James W. Sire describes worldview as essentially this: “A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, … about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides

Paul makes it clear that the world was created by God and that we are without excuse if we choose to deny that. Romans

By Faith we believe that God created the Natural World that He is the creator of all things. He is the source of all that live, and spoke the world into existence. The Bible begins with “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genisis1:1) In Romans 1:20 (NLT) Paul tells us “For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.” God took a blank canvas and used his brush to paint a masterpiece called planet Earth. With us in mind, he painted magnificent sunrises and sunsets, mountains, animals, the stars, moon and the sky. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” (Psalm 19:1 NIV) Sadly man set to out to invalidate creation and to take the glory away from God. Man had become wicked and began to follow after their own desires. “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation

Christians view the Question of Origin as God being the creator as stated in Genesis 1:1. He created mankind out of nothing.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters” (Gen 1:1-2). Paul states in Romans 1:20 that Gods invisible attributes, eternal power, and divine nature are clearly understood by the visible things that God has made in this world. God’s redeemed, should show a concern for the care of nature. Nature suffers because it is a casualty of sin, not because it is naturally evil. The world should anticipate a time when God shall deliver creation from the wrath of sin (8:19, 21). Nature “waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed” (8:19). 133

The Bible is full of narratives and accounts which point to our need for a savior and God meeting that need through Jesus Christ. The New Testament begins with four accounts of Christ's life; same person, same life, somewhat different stories. In general, it seems as though the church looks at all the gospels as a whole, treating each gospel as pieces of a puzzle that give us a full picture of Jesus’s time here on earth. However, if we look at it from the perspective of the people who would be reading these accounts or from the perspective of the authors our view might be a little different. Each account of Christ’s life has specific choices made by the author to guide our understanding and have an effect on how we read the text. One relatively

Paul’s letter to the Romans presents a systematic approach to the Gospel. This makes the Gospel of Roman an important book when it comes to the Christian Worldview. The Book of Romans covers a wide array of topics that are important to believers to understand and to live by. These topics includes: the attribute and existence of God, origin of creation, problem of evil in conjunction to sin, solution of sin to reach salvation, ethics and morality and lastly hope for humanity/creation. This reflection paper will show what Paul teaches us in regards to these topics and how it is applied to Christian’s worldview.

One may be very self aware of their personal worldview, or one’s worldview may be settled deep within the subconscious part of their brain. Everyone in existence has a worldview, but not everyone has a biblical Christian worldview. In his article Developing a Biblical Worldview, Ethan Pope (2002) says “a biblical worldview begins with God in Genesis chapter one, and verse one”. Pope goes on to say that a biblical worldview includes not only one’s view on the world, but other aspects in the world such as the people in it, its issues, the problems and solutions of it, and its government. Looking at Genesis 1:1, it says “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. This single verse can change a secular worldview into a biblical Christian worldview because this verse is proof that the entire earth is by the design of a Creator, thus eliminating the possibility of any form of evolution. In his article, Pope further continues his defense of the importance of a worldview by arguing that there are two worldviews that exist. There is the biblical worldview based on the framework of God and who he is, and there is the atheistic or secular worldview whose framework is built on nature and man. The secular worldview dismisses God and the need for him, and even at times ignores his existence altogether. Romans 12:2 says “Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your

A Biblical world worldview is how a Bible-believing Christian ought to see the world. The basic components that make up a biblical world view are well to start the Bible is God-breathed and therefore has ultimate authority and is fully true. The Bible gives believers some clear-cut commands that should be used in developing ones worldview. But the Bible also gives believers to form many of their own opinions that they can make using their personal worldview with the Bible engrained in it. For example, the Bible clearly states that Jesus lived a sinless life. Therefore, he is the standard that Christians should strive to imitate (with a lot of God's grace). The Bible also clearly says that there is only one true God. So a believer should not

Throughout Genesis 1-11, one of the main subjects covered is the natural world. Genesis 1 in particular provides crucial information for understanding the origin of the natural world. In the first verse of the entire Bible (Genesis 1:1), the reader is immediately told that “God created the heavens and the earth.” Additionally, the reader is informed that “there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31), showing that God’s work of creation took six days. Because I believe that God created the world in six literal days, the foundation of my worldview is entirely different than the foundation of an atheist’s worldview. When I look at the world around me, I do not view everything around me as the product of random chance and evolution; instead, I see everything around me as the handiwork of God.

Worldview is generally defined as the way individuals interpret reality or the world around them. Everyone has a type of worldview whether consciously and subconsciously, a personal worldview is everything a person “believes to be true”, and also what that individual “believes becomes the driving force behind every emotion, decision and action”.1 Consequently, worldview affects people’s reaction or response to every aspect of life; religious beliefs, education, economic, career, relationships, marriage, politics, healthcare and every other thing.1