What is a Christian Worldview?

Some would say the 7 C's of History:

Creation-Curse-Catastrophe-Confusion-Christ-Cross-Consummation.

John Stonestreet (BreakPoint) makes clear some essentials of a worldview [1] >>

According to Stonestreet, "… one who may have influenced Protestant Evangelicalism more than any other towards worldview thinking is Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s most significant contribution was bringing the concept of Christian worldview out of the academy to popular Christian thought."

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2011/06/already-compromised-review.html

 

I highly recommend Schaeffer's Complete Works:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Francis-Schaeffer-Christian/dp/0891073310

 

Also, these two video series >>

**How Should We Then Live? - Schaeffer:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9cJRl8EYnLeVDDAdgFMc5VPGAq7FU-73

 

**Whatever Happened To The Human Race? - Francis Schaeffer & C. Everett Koop (fmr. Surgeon General):   

https://youtu.be/py02pQTyeTE?list=PL9cJRl8EYnLepEXPyjBoSPIArEPHyN-c8

 

I argue that Francis Schaeffer leaned toward strict Creationism:

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2018/05/was-francis-schaeffer-creationist.html

 

Shouldn't a Christian Worldview include some basic doctrinal standards?

 

The Deity of Christ

Salvation by Grace

The Resurrection of Christ

The Gospel

Monotheism

Jesus is the only way to salvation

Jesus' virgin birth

Doctrine of the Trinity

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-heresy-of-older-planet.html

 

What about questions like "What is Marriage?" and "What is a Woman?"

Let me know your criteria for the Christian Worldview:

YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com

 

BreakPoint - John Stonestreet:

https://breakpoint.org/breakpoint-podcasts/

 

our site: https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://images.freeimages.com/images/large-previews/459/see-the-world-1-1359033.jpg

 

Note:

1) A Practical Guide to Culture by John Stonestreet & Brett Kunkle (David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, 2020), p. 91.

 

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#Monotheism ... what rhymes with #WorldView ?

What is Real History?

 

Whatever the topic of endeavor one must have some philosophical grounding.  For Math (my field) I would recommend Philosophy of Mathematics by Stephen Barker.  For studying events of the past one might read What Is History? by Edward Carr:

https://www.amazon.com/What-History-Edward-Hallet-Carr/dp/039470391X

 

We must view the leaders of the past through our worldview and certain presuppositions.  #WWNS What would Nietzsche say? ... the land beyond good and evil, ubermensch, eternal return and seeking out hardship.

 

Stanley Jaki (philosopher of science, Ph.D. Physics) wrote "On Whose Side is History?":

https://app.box.com/s/m18t42f6x0f9x0sd5va7bhm3xzhjkbny

 

The historian Josephus came from a Jewish perspective and said that  Alexander the Great had this experience when he came to Jerusalem:

 

... he gave his hand to the high priest and, with the Jews running beside him, entered the city.  Then he went up to the temple ... when the book of Daniel was shown to him, in which he had declared that one of the Greeks would destroy the empire of the Persians, he believed himself to be the one indicated; and in his joy he dismissed the multitude ... (Antiquities, XI 317).

 

Alexander did not destroy Jerusalem because history has a plan.  John Warwick Montgomery wrote Where is History Going?  Here is an excerpt:

https://www.disciplenations.org/media/Where-is-History-Going_Montgomery.pdf

C.S. Lewis, who died on the same day as JFK, said this about Montgomery's thesis, "Your two lectures [the basis for the book] did me good ... I don't think it could be bettered."

 

Daniel actually predicted the time of Jesus arrival on this planet (Dan. 9:25-27).  Why was this time important?  The common Greek language, the Roman roads and the Pax Romana all aided the spread of the Gospel message (1 Cor. 15:1-11).  Our Creator is clearly not surprised by tomorrow's headlines:

 

I make known the end from the beginning,

from ancient times, what is still to come.

I say, "My purpose will stand,

and I will do all that I please."

  Isaiah 46:10

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

JW Montgomery defends the #Faith ╬

https://www.amazon.com/Tractatus-Logico-Theologicus-Revised-Christian-Philosophy/dp/166678270X

 

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Who Owns the Future? (Real Time vs. Fake News)

Remember the former things of old;

for I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is none like me,

declaring the end from the beginning

and from ancient times things not yet done,

saying, "My counsel shall stand,

and I will accomplish all my purpose." (Is. 46:9,10)

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Deuteronomy 4 and the Age of the Earth

When did human history start?  A reasonable estimate by mainstream dating takes us to around 2500 BC. [1]  This only goes back to the post-Babel era.  Noah went into the Ark 1656 years after Creation Week.  Thus, a 6K year old world makes sense. 

Let's give thought to Deuteronomy 4: 32-35,

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other.  Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?  Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?  Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?  You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

Because of the signs and wonders, the Israelites had assurance that the Lord was the true Guardian of the Universe.  How could the Jews verify this?  Look at history, "Ask now about the former days, long before your time."  Is seems most likely that Adam, Noah and the other patriarch's wrote Genesis and then Moses edited their writings.  That is, history goes back to Adam.      

The famous Library of Alexandria was founded around 300 BC and had 200K to 400K books by some estimates.  Did some of these works contain pre-Flood history?  If so, there may have been a number of ancient chronicles that went back to the first human generation.

Christians who hold to a long chronology sometimes put Adam as far back as 150K years ago.  Where is all that history?  According to a report in NewScientist, writing may go back 35K years.  What happened to the missing historical accounts?  Some propose that the Sumerian King List takes us back 7K years before the Global Flood - that's far short of 150K years! [2]

Another problem for old earth supporters is all the millions of years of death and suffering before the Fall.  In Genesis 3 we read of the curse of the Earth.  Death and thorns came after the Fall in a straightforward reading of the text.  And later, the planet itself was destroyed because the world was wicked (Gen. 6:13).  That man's sin can have negative consequences in nature is repeated in Deuteronomy 28:

... if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you ...  You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.  You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.  You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. (Deut. 28:15, 38-40)

Notes:

1)  YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), pp. 30-33.

2)  Ibid., p. 33.

*illustration:  Sargon of Akkad & the tree of life