What worldview, apart from Christianity, can coherently account for, explain and oblige hatred for sin and love for a sinner? Answer: not one. This cliche has been the standard response of the church to issues such as gay marriage. It attempts to articulate that while the church opposes sinful actions that does not mean we oppose people in the same way. Its significance is not that it sounds reasonable, but that it is possible at all. How could it be that the sin of a person can been opposed, hated even, yet the person can be deeply loved at the same time by the same person? It is possible because…
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Creation Worldview
God Created the World just as Genesis describes. But what does this mean for one’s worldview? To believe that God created the world is to accept a set of principles by which one interprets experience, knowledge and by which one comes to conclusions about the fundamental nature of reality. To believe that God created the World is to believe something like the following: God made, from nothing, all that exists and is not God. This means that what is not God is not eternal. God is eternal. Creation has a beginning. The universe, cosmos, creation also refers to the arrangement of all that exists. (order) God has created stuff and its governing…
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A Mind for Eternity
In the movie, The Grey, several men survive a plane crash in a remote part of Alaska. The story charts their attempt to escape a pack of ravenous wolves through inhospitable land. In one scene the men talk of what keeps them going, what motivates them. All that they said was good enough–family, love, another chance at life–but all of it was this world focused. In The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires, Blamires reminds Christians that an essential difference between the secular mind and the Christian mind is that the Christian sees life in eternal and spiritual terms. Our frame of reference is not merely this worldly. It is not that the Christian doesn’t…