Reality Bites
by Kathy Brown on September 23rd, 2010 | 0 comments
In the study of worldview, the questions that everyone eventually answers or tries to resolve are these:
1. Where did I come from (am I evolved from apes or am I created by God)
2. Why do bad things happen to good people (what is the nature of evil)
3. What can be done about the wrongs in this world (what is the solution to evil)
4. Where will I go when I die (is there a heaven and how do I get there)
It is interesting that the earliest influences on children shape the way they address each of those four inquiries. The pure naturalist father or mother may teach that their ancestors arose from the slime. For many families who attend a church without Biblical literacy, evil may be identified as “bad choices,” without a concept of Satan being a real entity whose rebellion against God accounts for sin itself. Young people raised in a home supported by a government check might assume that the remedy for poverty is subsidies from taxpayers. A Muslim youngster likely trusts that good deeds are the qualifier for entry into the presence of Allah after life.
Every religious ideology has its conclusions. So is there one that is True? America’s public perspective of secular humanism (Foundational Presupposition Chart) has convinced the Mosaics and Busters (age 13 to 30) that there is really no such thing as Truth. The standard of “tolerance” has won their affections. Not its traditional meaning of disagreeing agreeably; but rather, accepting everything except the existence of universal law.
It has been said that a worldview is caught like a cold. You breathe it in as much as you are taught its tenets. So how does anyone raised with false instruction and who inhales the culture’s ideas ever come to a Biblical worldview? As the phrase goes: reality bites. And this can often be the impetus for thinking hard about those four questions.
From Colossians 1:8:
"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."
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