The Value Of A Worldview...

I am defining worldview as an explanation for the origin, meaning, and future of life itself. Answering the questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Where am I going?

Two main competing worldviews in America are the secular and the Christian. Secularist adherents live for the here and now believing there's no hell to shun. In the secular one that means the government is the ultimate authority and we are not ultimately responsible to God--but only reckon ourselves justified in our own eyes. Making choices based on informed decisions is important, not being right or wrong--since there is no absolute truth or right and wrong (ultimately they believe there is no hell to shun and can do whatever they can get away with). In the Christian worldview, we are ultimately accountable to God (cf. Psalm 10:4) and are His stewards of the gifts and blessings given to us. There is a final judgment and one must live life accordingly. There isn't always justice in this life, but God is just and will serve it in the afterlife. God's authority trumps the government's and "we must obey God rather than man" when they conflict and this is called civil disobedience.

If you don't have a worldview at all, no matter what nature, you don't have a take on reality and a way to interpret and comment on life itself--you simply have no valid opinion worth noting. Now, if you take God out of the equation and try to reconcile reality without Him in the picture, life, and its outlook become very bleak and hopeless: "Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless," according to atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell. Life without reference to God becomes a "useless passion" according to Jean-Paul Sartre.

Everything we understand has to do with the basic question of whether there is a God (life's most meaningful endeavor of inquiry) and the impact and influence it has on you. With God, we simply have dignity because we are not some cosmic accident, but created beings in God's image, not evolving animals who are free to live and act unaccountably like animals too. There are those, of course, who claim to believe in God and live in immorality and are, in effect, for all purposes practical atheists. Some atheists live pretty upright and praiseworthy lives in the eyes of man. However, their motive is to please man and not God, and is therefore selfish and misdirected. Soli Deo Gloria!

Developing Christian Worldview

"No nation has survived the loss of its gods" (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner for literature).

A worldview is a way of interpreting your world, such as purpose in living, where you came from, and where you are going--our role in the world-system--questions such as: Is there right and wrong? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? How do you interpret reality? There is a current war of ideas in the world: Marxism (basically an economic understanding, but also totalitarian, aiming to establish a domination of the proletariat or working class and abolishing the bourgeoisie in class warfare), Secular-Humanism (basically that man is the measure of all things, making a name for himself, up with man, down with God, or deifying man and dethroning God, and reality starts from him), New Age (the idea of cosmic consciousness, or force, or supra-consciousness, [God is the force of life and an influence] being in touch with the inner god--they think Jesus was just this sort), Postmodernism (founded by Nietzsche as the patron saint, saying that "God is dead" or irrelevant and we can live without Him), Islam with its geopolitical concerns (believing that "tomorrow belongs to Islam" and being bent on (world) hegemony), and Christianity (Christ's kingdom is in the hearts of man and not of this world) itself--the first five have one thing is common in that they oppose Christianity. Any viewpoint that doesn't start with God is evil (man is not the measure of all things like humanists have taught)!


We are exhorted to "hate that which is evil and cling to that which is good" in Rom. 12:9 and in 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 it says, "...hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil." [which means that when evil appears, resist it.] Only those who have their senses trained to "discern good and evil" can digest the meat of the word and the infants in Christ can only live on the milk of the Word according to Hebrews 5:14. We need to love God with our whole minds and not be indolent, slothful, or anti-intellectual--we are to use the minds God has given us to the glory of God (cf. Mark 12:30, Col. 3:23).

We are in the world, but not of it, according to Scripture (John 15:19 says, "You are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world"). If we love the world-system or cosmos of Satan, the love of the Father is not in us--indeed he entices us with many delicacies of the world to compete with our spiritual appetites. Beware of the pseudo-philosophies of this age as the admonishment in Col. 2:8 says, "Let no man spoil you through philosophy or vain deceit..." We need to "contend for the faith" like Jude said in v. 3 and that means taking stands for Jesus and sticking up for what is right in an evil world. We are the salt and light as the children of God.


Paul's swan song was: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" (2 Tim. 4:7). We all have a conscience and can tell right from wrong (Rom. 2:15), and we are all responsible and don't have any excuses for knowing God (Rom. 1:18-20). In 1 Chron. 12:32 it says that only a few people were able to interpret the times and knew what to do. Daniel 11:32 says that the "people who knew their God "shall be strong and do exploits." At the time of the end, the wise will understand and the wicked will not" (Dan. 12:10). When Nebuchadnezzar realized that God was sovereign he came to his senses (Dan. 4:35).

Today we seem to be doing what's right in our own eyes (similar to the Israelites in Judges 21:25--"They did what was right in their own eyes"). The culture says that there is no standard of right and wrong--it is all relative and you can't force your morality on another person. It isn't that we can't legislate morality, it's whose morality we legislate.

In Allan Bloom's book The Closing of the American Mind, he says that people now believe "all truth is relative"--if that is true, then that statement has no value; it is also relative. They say nothing is always wrong and nothing is always right; what matters is sincerity. This goes back to Satan's taunt: "Hath God said?" They seem to believe that the only truths that are relative are those that defend the Christian worldview! One prof was reported as saying, "You can know nothing for certain." One astute student asked, "Are you sure?" "Yes, I'm certain!" Jesus was the Truth itself, the incarnation of Truth with a capital T and came to bear witness of the truth--the Romans, including Pilate, doubted the existence of absolute truth (true no matter who believes it and whether anyone believes it or not). They thought that "might made right." This was the epitome of cynicism and an insult to Christ's veracity.

God's providence works all things according to His divine decrees and He has no Plan B; He has no other plan, but to use us as His vessels of honor and to bring glory to him (cf. Isa. 43:7). Everything is going according to plan as Isaiah says in Isa 37:26 and He is in control according to Isa. 14:24, 27 and 46:8-11. "Behold, the nations are as a drop of the bucket..." (Isa. 40:15). "He's got the whole world in His hands." Psalm 22:28 says that God is sovereign over the nations and we can be sure even over every molecule in the universe. Eph. 1:11 says that God works out everything according to His will. John Wesley used to read the paper to "see what God is doing in His world." God is even in control of the toss of the die (Prov. 16:33) and in control of the whims of the king (Prov. 21:1). He leaves nothing to chance: Einstein said, "God doesn't play dice with the universe." The secret is to stay away from extremes: "Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot form evil" (Prov. 4:27).

As Christians we are to "submit [ourselves] to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors..." (1 Pet. 2:12-13) Paul says something similar: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God" (Rom. 13:1). We are to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" according to Matthew 22:21 and even be light and salt in the world, trying to make people see the light to get saved according to our gift. With privilege there is the flip side of responsibility; they go hand in hand. There is such a thing as "social justice" but no "social gospel." One only need refer to the prophets Amos and Micah. We assert that God is the only legitimate legislator according to Isaiah 33:22 (positive law says that man can make any law he desires) and His character is the law of the universe. Isaiah said, "Woe unto them who decree unjust laws..." (Isa. 10:1-2). It has been said, "If we have contempt for government, we get contemptible government."

"What do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the face of the poor...?" (Is. 3:15).  "Rescue the weak and the needy..." (Ps. 82:4).  The believer who knows the Lord is concerned about the plight of the poor (Psa. 41:1) and the evil in the world:  he doesn't just see evil and say, "Why?" He also sees good and says, "Why not?"  This is what it means to know the Lord according to Jeremiah 22:16--to be concerned about those less fortunate and defending those who can't defend themselves, the weak ("He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; Then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?" declares the LORD [in Jer. 22:16]).  Amos and Micah are champions of the underdog and the underprivileged and deplore how "they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals--those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted (cf. Amos 2:6-7).  "...Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy..." (Amos 4:1). Malachi is appalled at those  "who oppress the hired worker in his wages..." (Mal. 3:5).  We are not to be partial to the poor nor to the rich, but show justice to all (Deut. 19:15).  Charity and welfare were mandated in Israel according to Lev. 19:9-10 Deut. 15:4, and other passages--they were allowed to "glean the fields" of the landowners.  There was to be "no poor in Israel."

Now, what kind of values are Christians supposed to espouse? They should subscribe to the sanctity of the family unit as having preference over the government's authority, because it was established before it; it should believe in the inherent worth of the individual  (you have rights, but they end where mine begin--you can swing your fist but not hit my nose!) as being in the image and likeness of God (the imago Dei), and that means having a mind to know and communicate with God, a heart to love Him, and a will to obey Him.  These are called inalienable rights and our culture is based on it in the constitutional Bill of Rights.  We are merely stewards of God's riches ("The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof" says Ps. 24:10) and are responsible to Him to give account at the judgment. (There is a Protestant work ethic mentioned in 2 Thess. 3:10 that declares that those who are not willing to work shall not eat.)

All authority ultimately comes from God and we get our rights and dignity form Him; "unless you assume a God, the question  of man's purpose is meaningless," and without God man is a "useless passion." (Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre).  We believe the government has limited power derived from God--it is not a necessary evil, as Augustine said, but necessary because of evil.  We have a duty to this government since we owe them our security and protection of our property and our person from crime--justice and law and order are the primary functions.  Marriage is to be held in honor and a "man shall leave his mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh" and "God made them male and female and said that it was good."  No rights are absolute, such as you saying it's your religion to be a cannibal or that you can yell fire in an auditorium!  Sometimes it may be our duty to disobey, which is termed civil disobedience--God's laws trump the government; shall we obey God or man? ("We must obey God rather than man" [Acts 5:29]).

I believe firmly that the Bible sanctions no certain type of government, as long as human rights are respected.  The government was first documented to be divided into three parts in Isaiah 33:22 into the legislative, judicial, and executive branches (king, judge, lawgiver).  I refer to Lord Acton's adage that is a cliche now:  "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."  We do not believe that our rights (note that the obverse of rights is responsibilities necessitated) are derived from the government, but directly from God, who gives us dignity and worth as man in His image or the icons of God, as it were.

If God doesn't exist, everything is permissible.  But we believe in transcendent or natural law that everyone is able to know by nature apart from the government.  Law is designed for wrong-doers and should confer rights on us.  People are in a state of rebellion against our so-called bourgeois values (which really is the Judaeo-Christian heritage or Western civilization).  As the psalmist says, "What can the righteous do when the foundations are destroyed?" (Ps. 11:3).  For one thing, we should pray for our leaders, not condemn them [It is our God who put them there, as Paul said, "Is unlawful to speak evil of a ruler of your people", Acts 23:5].

Christians are not "utopians" but are waiting for Christ to usher in His Millennial Kingdom at His second coming.   A word to the wise is sufficient: Christians have no geopolitical aspirations like the Muslim world bent on dominating the world with their hegemony, and they should not sound the alarm, but "occupy till He comes" (business as usual).  As Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." In conclusion, we have read the last page of the Bible and know how it all will turn out and are assured that we are on the winning side and victory is inevitable in the end.  NB:   Keep the faith! "The LORD frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples...Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh!" (Psalm 33:10-12).  A word of encouragement--all is not lost:   God is able to heal our land if we confess our corporate sins and humble ourselves in repentance as His people (2 Chronicles 7:14)

In the final analysis, it is vital to know Scripture to combat the prevalent Secular Humanistic viewpoint (deifying man and denying and dethroning God) in the world and not to fall into the devil's trap.  Sir Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is power."  And the Bible backs this up in Proverbs 10:14 saying, "The wise lay up knowledge..." And Proverbs 24:5 says, "And a man of knowledge enhances his might."  We must not remain silent and concede everything away.  They are trying to eradicate Christianity from the marketplace of ideas, the classroom, and the public square.

In summation:  Common fallacies are that if an idea works it should be implemented (John Dewey said that the test of an idea is not whether it is true, but whether it works). Today we see pragmatism or doing what is practical, prevalent and politicians act expediently or doing whatever serves their purpose. The danger with these erroneous worldviews is that they contain an element of truth, just enough to inoculate one from the real thing--like a being vaccinated from the truth and immune to reality. A most dangerous philosophy is that the end justifies the means (in pragmatism and utilitarianism), or that if one has sincere motives it is sanctioned. Communism is replete with this doctrine.  Modern times have necessitated a war of ideas and ideologies.  Today with pragmatic politics they believe that, if it works, it's moral (Hitler was successful at what he did!).  The "isms" of the world are on a collision course. It does matter what you believe and what your worldview is: What you believe affects what you do and how you act.  The main battle is not against capitalism and socialism, but between the free world and totalitarianism.   Soli Deo Gloria!

Christian Worldview Outshines The Others

The problematic issue is that all religions and worldviews have an element of truth and just enough to make one immune to the real thing and inoculated, as it were. NB: The Christian worldview stands or falls on the veracity of the Word of God. The Christians' citizenship is in heaven as Jesus said in John 15:19, "You are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world." Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold it says in Romans 12:2 in one translation. My premise is that God is the moral center of the universe and is our Judge, we are not His judge (we are by definition held accountable to our Creator).

There are basically ten academic subjects that are directly affected by the worldview (which are as follows: Theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, and history economics makes up Western Civilization or Christendom) and disciplines of a student of the truth. There are several worldviews including Secular Humanist (the predominant one in America), Communist or Marxist, Postmodern (which holds all truth as relative, except its own truths and especially those of Christianity) New Age, and Muslim. They all have this in common: They all agree to oppose Christianity.


Christianity is the only one that gives dignity to man and meaning to his life and purpose or teleology to his life's origin and destiny. Humanists, et al., describe Christians as out of touch with reality (Ted Turner, for instance, has labeled Christians as weak and Christianity a religion for losers), Freud described Christians as neurotic, if not psychotic. The problem is that Marx described religion as the opiate of the people--actually, young people are ill-prepared and don't know what they believe when encountered with worldviews, and should have their minds kept open.

What has happened is that man has forgotten God according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The historian, Will Durant asks if a man can live without God? Ironically, on the other hand, Bertrand Russell says what the world needs is more Christian love. Nietzsche proclaimed God as dead (not relevant anymore) and that "we killed Him." Russell (the most famous atheist philosopher of the twentieth century), also said that "unless you assume a God, the question of life's meaning is useless." God is indeed relative to all dimensions of life and every major academic discipline.

Ethics is in debate and is the chief problematic area because what you believe affects how you behave (orthodoxy or right belief is necessary for orthopraxy or right behavior)--Humanists say ethics are relative to one's culture. We believe that the faith you have is the faith you show, but Christianity is not a system of ethics, but a relationship with the living God. We have an inner sense of "ought." We will be held accountable to our Creator at the judgment. The summation of Christian ethics is to follow the Lord in discipleship.

Look at the gamut of value systems:

In Islam, Muhammad is seen as the exemplary hero held in superlative status, though he had many flaws in his character, while Jesus was sinless--what Jesus did, no man can do, what Muhammad did, any militant man can do. We believe in absolute right and wrong--certain things are always wrong in all situations at all times. 

Postmodernists, with more of a mood than dogma, say that they believe in no absolutes but moral relativism. If it feels right, then it is--make your own credo (essence of New Age)! "Truth is a short-term contract." Imagine the consequences of believing that! They essentially believe you should live as you please (see how your worldview affects your behavior--it has consequences!). 

Secular Humanists claim we are an evolving animal and it is no wonder they behave like animals! They believe in the science of ethics and reject absolute standards--nothing is conceived as good or bad--they believe in "no truth." Remember, Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Therefore, truth can be known and does exist.  

Marxists claim man is the highest form of man. Christians are immoral and the enemy and Marxists feed on class hatred and envy--ultimately the end justifies the means. The question is whether we are headed toward perfection and a higher being someday. 

The Postmodernists refuse a Big Story (worldview), or metanarrative, or grand narrative, as they call it, and want to get in touch with the god within and that tolerance is the ultimate virtue--you might say they endorse neither atheism nor theism--their faith is highly eclectic and highly individualized. 

New Agers believe in the reciprocity rule of ethics (what Confucius taught-- don't treat others the way you don't want to be treated--don't even the score!), inner truth and enlightenment, karma, and being non-judgmental or tolerant. They believe we should design our own ethics--if it feels good, it's right for you! What modern-day schools teach is that your ethics or mores are okay as long as you can justify them or have sound reasoning behind them.

The big issue in psychology is whether we have souls, as others deny (except Islam). Is there a supernatural (the secular humanist vehemently denies any supernatural)? Does the mind supersede matter or vice versa? Which came first mind or matter? "In the beginning, God" not "In the beginning matter (no God)." The problem is that only Christianity deals with the problem of sin, death, and guilt in an acceptable way. Christianity is a competing therapy to psychology and is regarded as an enemy, not an ally.

There are parameters to a Christian worldview: mind over matter, God before people, plan, and design before creation, life from life, and enlightenment from Light. All things have their origin or genesis in God: "In the beginning God...." The problem most people have is that they know enough truth to be dangerous as Sir Francis Bacon (the father of modern empiricism, along with John Locke, and author of the scientific method), said, "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

Let's show the ways Christianity outweighs the other worldviews:

In theology, there is more evidence for God than against and you cannot disprove God or the fact of a designed universe (argument from design)--Christian theology is Christ-centered and its validity is based on the veracity of the Scriptures; In philosophy the mind or logos precedes or is over and has power over matter and the Higher Mind and loving God is superior to moral relativism in concept--having a First-Cause or Unmoved-Mover fits the facts better than pure chance and accident of history in the making--the vast majority of great thinkers according to renowned scholar Mortimer J. Adler were believers in God--supernaturalism and faith are vital to reason (the main purpose of reason is to show that some things are beyond reason; 

 In biology creating life coincides with the evidence better and you cannot demonstrate or prove spontaneous generation--life only comes from life (biogenesis)--no evolutionist can demonstrate how life began (life could not have arisen by chance according to Sir Fred Hoyle in The Intelligent Universe); as creatures of God we have dignity being in the image of God--creationism should be given equal time to evolution as both are faiths and can't be proved (who was there?); 

In psychology, the need for a Savior and the solution to the guilt problem outweigh the evolution concept, and mind supersedes matter or what is called dualism is superior--man has a soul and a mind as well as a brain (actually Christianity is better psychology than psychology)--man's problem is sin and guilt and how to overcome it, not deny it, because we are fallen creatures--Christianity is the only view that treats this issue; 

 In sociology, the biblical standards of society and family are superior to free love, open sex, or any social experiment (we believe in the inherent worth of the individual and primacy of the family unit as fundamental to society; 

In government, there shouldn't be any more interventionist than absolutely necessary and lean toward laissez-faire and open and free markets. In law, God hates the perversion of justice and provides a firm foundation--all just law is God-oriented and founded on the absolutes of right and wrong (known also as transcendent law and natural law), We uphold the rule of law and that the basis for Common Law is the Bible, relying on its veracity and relevance; Christians are obliged to obey the law (however; God's law trumps man's), and believers should pose no threat to other types of government as revolutionaries or anarchists, but should be model citizens whose real citizenship is in heaven; 

In politics, rights are derived directly from God and the responsibility of governments to secure them (by the way government is not a necessary evil, but necessary because of evil according to St. Augustine)--involvement in the political process is encouraged and apathy and ignorance are wrong--justice and freedom for all is a right from God; 

In economics, the concept of private property, work ethic, and individual responsibility is far more motivating than a welfare state based on redistribution of wealth and class envy--everything is given from God and we are merely stewards of His provision and bounty;

In history, utopia will be ushered in by Christ and is far more than a pipe dream, not just pie in the sky--history is linear nor repetitious and is headed for a culmination of judgment and a millennial kingdom ushered in by Christ, not us, the climax of history is when Christ comes to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Secular views hold uniformitarianism or that things have always been as they are without catastrophe or intervention by God, such as the deluge. The story of history is "his story" and goes from creation, to fall, to redemption, resurrection, judgment, and eternity.

The role of government is to protect private property, ensure justice, preserve personhood from danger, and keep evil at bay, thus securing human rights and making the opportunity, as well as seeing the marketplace is fair and moral, as well as ethical-- the law is made for the evildoer who needs the motivation to be good.

Secular Humanism and Atheism have been declared religions by high federal courts in America, but children's minds are not kept open because there are violations of First Amendment rights in the classroom. After all, evolution is taught as absolute truth and not just theory, and creationism is not allowed equal time, though over half of Americans don't accept it as gospel truth.

In conclusion: It is time for Christians to stand up and boldly proclaim the truth, and to let their Christian colors show; that means taking a stand and not being ashamed of their faith or of Jesus, looking for opportunities to make Him known. It might be as simple as writing your congressman, or the editor of your paper, even lighting a candle, showing your Christian colors, and having a prayer meeting, chain, or vigil can be beneficial. We need believers who dare to be "Daniels" and will not just stand by the sidelines, so to speak, but stand up and be counted: "But the people who do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits" (Dan. 11:32b). Soli Deo Gloria!

The Necessity Of A Christian Worldview

"Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred..." (1 Chronicles 12:32, NASB).

"... [A] people without understanding shall come to ruin" (Hosea 4:14, ESV).

C. S. Lewis, the literary apologist who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity, said we must defend our worldview and not lose by default or neglect---in other words, we must have the answers and be prepared for spiritual battle. Lewis also says "[we] must show our Christian colours, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent and concede everything away." We must dare to be "Daniels" willing to get into the action and not stand aside and merely passively observe. We cannot remain neutral, for that is a stand against Christ and His truth. Matthew 12:30 says: "He that is not with Me is against Me."

The Judeo-Christian mindset has not failed, it has not been defended, but abandoned. The dual problem is that many do not know why they believe, nor even what they believe! Our mission: Get the truth out there and propagated in a culture that is convinced that "truth is a short-term contract," but there is absolute truth! But it is not all relevant. We must all be responsible to disseminate what light God has given us. The ramifications of being remiss or negligent are a nation devoid of divine viewpoint and being hi-jacked by fanatical or fringe movements, using God to promote their agenda, and possibly even the ultimate surrender to secular thinking, and the elimination of Christian input in toto into the public square could transpire, i.e., muzzling our freedom of speech!

What is a worldview (commonly referred to as Weltanschauung, the German terminology)? Opinions are something you hold, while convictions hold you: It is the sum total of your convictions and why you see a life worth living or something worth dying for. It has been said that it usually answers the queries: "Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?" Your worldview helps you explain God (or explain Him away), your world, and the relationship between the two as to how they relate individually and as a society. In sum, your outlook on life. In essence, we have a theory of the world and God, and how we relate to them, according to the dictionary. This is a vital discipline because kids are going to college ill-prepared when there's a war of ideas going on, and too many need to get their thinking straightened out (cf. 2 Cor. 10:5: "... [B]ringing every thought [or viewpoint] into captivity to the obedience of Christ"). So how do you interpret reality?

To answer these questions from the viewpoint or perspective of Secular Humanism, they leave God out of the equation and explain away the supernatural, only believing in the observable and rational, and leaving the universal language of science and consensus to figure out all the answers. Science has become a religion--or "scientism" and making value judgments, (as Carl Sagan, the 1981 recipient of the Humanist of the Year award, according to my source, said, "The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be"--this is out of the realm, scope, and domain of science). More people believe in the theory of evolution (which is unproven and "unprovable") as religious dogma and scientific fact, and this is the Big Lie. Dr. Karl Popper says that evolution does not fit the definition of a scientific theory.

But Evolution is the building block of Secular Humanism and this belief system has no place for God in the Picture. This is the predominant worldview today in academia and we cannot remain silent and concede everything away, according to C. S. Lewis, again. Humanism has been around since antiquity and was known as man being the measure of all things (define and begin all reality with man, not God) and it was called homo mensura--deifying man and dethroning God. They see all religion as just chasing some "pie in the sky," and believe in living for the "here and now," without living in the light of eternity.

According to scholar Carl F. H. Henry, Christianity speaks to all academic disciplines and is relevant to all facets of life, not just having a personal relationship with God. There is a struggle for student allegiance in the school system and atheism has been declared a religion by the Seventh Court of Appeals in 2005. And Secular Humanism was defined in the book Religion Without Revelation by Julian Huxley. In A Common Faith, John Dewey sees the Secular Humanist movement as having the elements of a religion. They say that children's minds should be kept open, but they proceed to brainwash them. A. Solzhenitsyn has said that "man has forgotten God," and Friedrich Nietzsche (the patron saint of Postmodernism) said "God is dead." meaning that He is "no longer believable or relevant" Will Durant has well said, "The greatest question of our time is whether man can live without God." A current politician has said he would "keep God out of it."

You either must begin with man and explain the cosmos, or begin with God and explain the cosmos. This begs the question: What was in the beginning? "In the beginning God," or "In the beginning matter." Which created which? Do matter and energy have inherent power and intelligence to fix all the more than fifty constants in our cosmos and make life suitable for us, known as the Anthropic Principle, or the fine-tuning of our planet for human life?

Athanasius (the father of orthodoxy), one of the Church Fathers, said that the only system of thought that Christ will fit into is the one where He is the starting point. The false assumption that science makes is that Christianity is anti-science: In fact, it made possible modern science in the first place and is the "Mother of Modern Science" Many good scientists have been theists: Examples are Kepler, Newton, Copernicus, Boyle, Pascal, Galileo, Maxwell, and Farad.

Shakespeare said it well, concerning our meaning in life apart from God in Macbeth as he mused about the entirety of living: "...['T]is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." R. C. Sproul said in the same vein: "With God we have dignity and without God, we have nothing." When you insert God into your thinking you can explain reality and find meaning to it. Bertrand Russell restated it well, "Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless." Life is nonsensical without reference to God!

The biggest challenge Secular Humanism faces is the word "purpose" (and its corollary "meaning"), or the study of it known as teleology (from telos for purpose). The word seems almost theological to them in nature. There is indeed a war of "isms" and the battleground is the mindset of a whole generation that is apathetic toward them in their interpretive framework. The bottom line is that these "isms" have consequences.

It was the proponents of Secular Humanism that bemoaned the fact that children's minds weren't kept open when evolution was a forbidden subject in school; now they refuse to even let Creationism have equal time, though there is plenty of evidence, so that lack of evidence presents no excuse for denying it. We need to keep God in the public arena and defend the Christian worldview in the public square wherever possible, not letting Secular Humanism eradicate it or make it irrelevant. (They believe religion is acceptable as long as it is "privatized.")

"If there is no God," Fyodor Dostoevsky's dictum goes, "all things are permissible," and up for grabs, and we are without a moral compass--if we are animals, why not act like them? (Morals are then subjective and only a matter of personal conviction.) Some believe values are just a matter of public consensus--justifying Nazism and Communism! Listen to the New Age definition of it: "Morality is a nebulous thing; listen to the God within!" And if it feels like the truth, it is.

Postmodernists say that it can be right for you, but not for someone else. They dodge the morality and no-truth issues. Compare this idea to the situation described in Judges 21:25 (ESV): "... [E]veryone did what was right in their own eyes." All we need to know is that God is the moral center of the universe! A theologian Karl Barth, focused on Christians who are religious, but not righteous--and decried this as a natural fruit of this way of thinking.

We need to separate the wheat from the chaff, ascertaining the truth from the fiction. "My people perish for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:14). Note well: "Knowledge is power," said Sir Francis Bacon (cf. Prov. 24:5). "For lack of knowledge My people go into exile" (Is. 5:13). I Chronicles 12:32 says we need people who can interpret the times and know what to do. Our faith is "defensible" and we must meet the challenge and not lose by negligence or default. If we are versed in our worldview we will realize it outshines every other one.

The answer to Pilate's question: "What is truth?" is obtainable. Absolute truth is knowable since Jesus claimed to be the personification or embodiment of Truth with a capital "T" Himself! We need believers with a sense of "ought" and are committed to defending the truth as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian. He penned The Cost of Discipleship and coined the phrase "cheap grace", and was a dissenter of Nazism (involved in assassination attempts), and a political/religious martyr, who said, "Who stands fast? ..., not the man whose final standard is his reason, his principles, his conscience, or virtue, but God." If we study the rationales behind these flimsy, bleak belief systems, we can readily detect their Achilles' heel. I rest my case! Soli Deo Gloria!

Eradicating Christian Worldview

The Christian point of view is not only disdained but frowned upon, including any mention or hint of it in the open marketplace of ideas. Back during the Scopes trial of 1925, they bemoaned the fact that the kid's minds must be kept open, and they shouldn't prohibit the teaching of evolution. In our nation, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin; in China, you can criticize Darwin, but not the government--which one is muzzling the Christian worldview the most is your guess. This is not the building block of secular worldview and religion in its own right. Now the reverse has occurred: You must teach evolution not as a hypothesis, but as unquestioned scientific fact, even though it doesn't even qualify as a theory--it is unproven and cannot be proved in a scientific manner, because no one has observed it nor is able, and there is no evidence in the fossil record. There are no missing links found when there should be millions. Darwin said that if his theory were correct it would be evident in the fossil record--it isn't!

It seems like Christianity is copacetic if one privatizes it and doesn't try to "proselytize" or spread the faith to the infidel. Evangelistic outreaches are a no-no in academia. The primary result of believing you are just a glorified animal is that you begin to act like one, irresponsibly and unaccountable with no hell to shun and make up your own set of values as you go along. Christians are to stand up and be counted and not be ashamed of the faith, nor of sharing it. They are to defend the Christian worldview and fight the secularization of society, forcing God out of our courtrooms and being politically correct, which is wrong--you want to be correct if it differs.

Daniel was forced to make his faith known when they prohibited him from praying. He neither flaunted his faith, nor privatized it, but demonstrated that he would not be hindered in the free exercise of his religion. The government, likewise, can make no law abridging the free exercise of religion, as well as establish a religion by force. Today they say: As long as your religion is private and doesn't bother anyone else, it's okay! However, we are a nation founded upon the Judaeo-Christian worldview and we stray from it at our peril. This interpretation and framework of thinking is not failing, nor has it failed; believers are abandoning it because they actually are convinced their faith cannot be defended on the open marketplace of ideas. When Christianity is no longer welcome in the public square it is time to take a stand and not lose our worldview by default or negligence, conceding it away without a fight--we are to fight the good fight and contend for the faith!

Au contraire! There is plenty of evidence to make our worldview believable and relative. There is plenty of evidence for those who have the will to believe--God can make a believer out of any skeptic if he is willing to do God's will (cf. John 7:17). No one can say there wasn't any evidence, because people reject Christ out of the hardness of their hearts, not because they are wise (cf. Psalm 14:1).


We are in the world, but not of it (cf. John 15:19), but this doesn't mean we are to love the world or its system--we are to be lights and salt to the lost. We, who see the light, are to share our vision with a lost world and stand up and be counted for Jesus, showing our Christian colors. Today it seems like the resurgent atheists are the militant ones out to convert the prospects to their way of thinking! We are to let our "lights so shine before men, that they may see our good works and glorify [our] Father who is in heaven" (cf. Matt. 5:16). In the final analysis, the philosophy of leftism says religion is unobjectionable as long as it is "privatized." What they really mean is that you make no effort to propagate your faith and spread the good news of Jesus and just keep your faith to yourself. There comes a time to act in protest and civil disobedience and to defy the law that prohibits any free exercise of our faith or establishes some other faith by decree or mandate. Soli Deo Gloria!

What Is Truth?

"Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 2:25, NIV, emphasis mine).

"[A]nd you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32, ESV, emphasis mine).

"... For this purpose I was born and for this purpose, I have come into the world--to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice" (John 18:37, ESV, emphasis mine).

"Pilate said to him, 'What is truth?'" (John 18:38, ESV).

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..." (Proverbs 1:7, ESV).

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living." (Thomas a Kempis (Thomas von Kempen in German) medieval author of the classic Imitation of Christ, emphasis mine)

This is the famous question of the notorious, weak-willed, wishy-washy Pontius Pilate addressed to Jesus during one of his so-called trials. Of course, he wasn't interested in waiting around for an answer, but only in being cynical. To him Rome was truth, there was no universal truth that applied everywhere except Rome's truth, because "might made right." To him, there were just too many religions for one to have the gall or audacity to claim exclusivity. He is the example that the Bible defines non-Christians as those "who reject the truth" (cf. Romans 2:8).

But truth is knowable because Jesus claimed to be truth incarnate ("I am the truth"). It isn't all propositional, but something we can have a relationship with and get to know personally. There are statements that are true or false, and there are relationships between them that are either valid or invalid, according to Aristotelian logic. When you make conclusions, you've assumed something beforehand! Conclusions are only as valid as their premise or presuppositions. Logic just defines the relationships between statements or propositions assumed as true. 

The point is that no matter what conclusion you reach or what you claim to know, you have started somewhere with some proposition that you cannot prove. "Faith precedes reason" is the formula. This means all knowledge begins with faith and assuming something you cannot prove, according to Augustine and all truth is God's truth. And Aquinas added that all truth meets at the top. What this also means is that God is the God of truth and "no lie is of the truth"--Satan is the author of deceit and father of lies, and there is no truth in him.

The problem with evil is that it isn't the opposite of good, but infection and distortion of it. There is an element of truth (this is what makes it so enticing and alluring) and this element is in every false religion and cult--that's why they are so dangerous and appealing to people in need or with a vacuum to fill in their desperate lives. New Age people would say that if it feels good it is truth for you. And Postmodernists (and the only truths that are really relative are those relating to Christianity) and Postmodernism would say that it might be true for you, though not for someone else and that all truth is relative (relative to what?). For them the "truth is a "short-term contract." "

You can know nothing for certain," they say. And they are certain! Pragmatists, on the other hand, may posit: "It may work for you, but not for me (confusing something that works as something that's true)." They sincerely believe you cannot know whether something is true, but only whether it works and this is the true test of an idea. New Age thinkers go beyond that in urging you to listen to the "God within." We do have a right to our own opinions, but not our own truths. We must not fabricate our own truth! Being opinionated is no compliment if not based on truth.

When we stray from "absolute truth" and God as its source, all things are permissible according to Dostoevsky. Would anyone argue that rape or incest isn't wrong under all circumstances, at all times, and for all people [unless you are forced to do it]? They're never right! That's because it is an example of absolute truth that exists and we don't argue about it, but accept it as a universal standard, just as much as a mathematical table. We all have a sense of right and wrong, or sense of "ought" and things like fair play, good faith, truthfulness, sportsmanship, integrity, altruism, courage, honor, duty, and unselfishness. This is a sense and a sense implies a person or personality, not a thing; which implies a "Higher Mind and/or Sense" or God behind the cosmos that keeps things going so orderly.

We all appeal to an ultimate standard of behavior all the time, even when someone buds in line, steals a parking spot, or cheats at golf. Life would be chaos without some standard of decency to expose lewdness and without principles to live by. We don't just make up our own rules as we go along and we don't live and do according to what is right in our own eyes. Even in prison, convicts have a "code" and a conscience that if you steal their cigarettes you will pay dearly. Man is a "moral" creature in that he has an inner sense of right and wrong, even if he ignores it at his peril.

"Absolute truth" is true everywhere and all the time and applies to everyone. Objective truth is true regardless of whether we believe it or not. There is absolute, universal truth, but there is no absolute, universal belief. There is no belief that is regarded as true by everyone, and just because we don't believe something doesn't make it untrue. What people erroneously do is think that belief and truth are identical. And they are right in saying there is nothing that everyone universally believes in the way of religion, for instance, but principles of right and wrong apply to everyone. There is an invisible moral code we all appeal to and it is just as real as the laws of logic or a musical scale or math table.

In a court of law, your opinions don't matter as evidence, except as expert testimony if you are one; however, people will believe what they choose to believe and will always have prejudicial and irrational opinions. By and large, it only matters what is truth, not what is an opinion. It's just like in the TV show Dragnet, when Sgt. Friday said, "Just gimme the facts, ma'am!"

Truth is defined by God (it's "true truth," according to Francis Schaeffer), and this truth is what God says it is because He is the God of truth--i.e., "the only true God" (cf. John 17:2). Things we believe may be true, but God's Word is truth and the difference is that truth doesn't just inform or reform, but transforms and sanctifies (cf. John 17:17). It is so true despite the fact that "they exchanged the truth of God for a lie" (cf. Romans 1:25, ESV). As Paul Little has said, "Believing something doesn't make it true; refusing to believe it doesn't make it false." Don't equate belief with truth! The Bible is objectively true; true regardless of who says what or who told us! It is self-attesting, appealing to no one or nothing for verification of its truth but itself as the highest authority. Only Scripture can objectively be called "truth," since total objectivity doesn't exist--except with God!

In the final analysis, truth is what God decrees as truth--you cannot dispute God! (it has been wisely said). And truth is what conforms to God's divine nature and is immutable, not subject to our criticism or scrutiny--it is often too profound for us to fathom ("Canst thou by searching find out God?" Job is asked). You cannot label it, put it in a box, confine it, nor define it because it is infinite and the "finite cannot grasp the infinite" according to the Greek maxim of antiquity. Soli Deo Gloria!

Christian Worldview 101

The Unfolding Of History...

"This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations. For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?" (Isaiah 14:27, NIV).
"LORD, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps" (Jer. 10:23, NIV).
"'...Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen'" (Isa. 14:24, NIV).
"The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples" (Ps. 33:10, NIV).
"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes...." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are no accidents of history which is dependent upon impersonal, non-existent forces, such as fortune, fate, or luck! Don't sing, "Que sera, sera, what will be, will be!" Providence is God's answer to happenstance!

History is a story by a grand Storyteller, the great Orchestrator of History itself, God, which means it has a direction, meaning, and a conclusion or consummation; we ignore it at our peril!


The ancients believed in a cyclical historical narrative, whereby history repeated itself; however, Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat itself, it only rhymes! The only thing we learn from history, it is said, is that we don't learn from history; that is probably why Henry Ford proclaimed history as "bunk." The Bible is the final arbiter of truth and what is "bunk," though. The communist ideology justifies itself and its dialectic materialism by positing history as the judge. Some religions, on the other hand, see karma as the inevitable judge of mankind, from which we cannot escape.


Do nations that unjustly go to war, to wage unjust wars reap what they sow, is there bad karma for them? It seems like the good guys don't always win and justice comes out the loser if one observes history, yet God orchestrates all history, and history is simply "His story." We have to acknowledge that we don't always see what God is up to in His world, as He micromanages it to the minutiae--there is indeed not one maverick molecule out of His control.


Karl Marx said something interesting about history: The point is not to interpret it, but to change it! I believe one of the biggest problems we have in our nation is its lack of familiarity with American and even world history. If we don't learn some basic lessons, we are doomed to repeat history. The Bible teaches a linear approach to interpret history, that it doesn't go in cycles but is heading toward a climactic event or consummation (the Second Coming of Christ). Scientists deny any supernatural intervention in history, such as the Deluge, and this is called the uniformitarian view of history--this is because they want to make the earth out to be billions of years old and this view supports their old-earth hypothesis.


History can be summed up according to biblical interpretation: Creation, fall, redemption, judgment! History and time had a beginning at creation and Secular Humanists can't adjust their worldview to include this approach, but hold to an eternal universe (such a theory is untenable in view of scientific evidence of a Big Bang). The point is that, if there was a beginning (Big Bang), there had to be a Beginner or one who pulled the trigger! Nothing just happens by itself! We must learn the lessons of history, and Christianity is the only faith and worldview that is based on history and has evidence to back it up.


In the final analysis, we don't know the future, but we know who holds the future! This doctrine is sometimes referred to as Providence and we must learn to not second-guess God. Certainly, as Ben Franklin observed: "I have lived a long time, and the longer I live, the more I realize that God governs in the affairs of men." God has no back-up plan nor a Plan B, and His will cannot be frustrated by us, as we cannot thwart Him (cf. Job 42:2). 

History is something we really don't understand and cannot fathom, until after the fact, when we can see more objectively what God is doing in the affairs of men; therefore to conjecture about the future or to make prognostications is out of our realm of competency, since we don't have a crystal ball that works--it's God's dominion--we trust God for the future, and must realize that our future or (times) is in His hands (cf. Psalm 31:15).


In sum, consider the following verses (Psalm 22:28 (NIV); Job 36:23 (HCSB); and Daniel 4:35, NIV): "[F]or dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations," "Who has appointed His way for Him, and who has declared, 'You have done wrong'?" "...No one can hold back his hand or say to him: 'What have you done?'" Soli Deo Gloria!

Ushering In The Kingdom

Many evangelicals think of geopolitical considerations concerning the faith as if the social gospel (actually a misnomer) or political reform were the Second Great Commission.  "Seek the prosperity of the city..." (cf. Jer. 29:7).  This a social mandate, not a social gospel.  We are its salt and light, not its savior.  America is a secular nation and not a Christian one, no matter how many believers make this land their home.  Always keep the main thing the main thing and save souls as Job One. 


We are not to stoop to the level of radical or fundamentalist Islam and institute Christian Shari'ah law, which forces everyone to live like a Christian, whether they are Christian or not.  Our nation established freedom from religion, as well as freedom of the exercise of religion, and no sect has the right to impose its views on the others--note that secular humanism and atheism are considered religions. We may have started out with our forefathers as a predominately Christian nation, but today it is highly multicultural and diverse ethnically and religiously.  We are the salt as preservatives of morality and to give meaning and enjoyment to life, and also as light to show the way and how people should live in spiritual darkness--not political darkness, but moral depravity and in need of salvation, as the Bible sanctions no specific or certain type of government or economy.


What is legal is not always moral or right and could be sin or evil, and what is illegal may be the moral thing to do in an act of civil disobedience to unjust laws.  The state may recognize gay marriage, for example, but that doesn't mean God recognizes it--it doesn't become right or moral by an act of governmental decree.  We cannot legislate morality, law is merely the majority vote that licks all others, according to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, though Christians differ because they believe that God is the only Legislator and all law must comply with Him.    Christians should never cease to drive basic morality in society as salt and light, but be aware that there are gray and doubtful or questionable areas where people should be free to make their own personal choices.  Government is a "social contract" according to John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whether we want to be in it or not, or knowingly or not, according to contract laws.  The Bible sees government ordained by God to restrain evil in the world.


Jesus alone will usher in His kingdom and His kingdom is not of this world--we are not to get too comfortable in this life and become too much at home, for our conversation and real citizenship is in heaven!  Remember, at your homecoming you are not home yet!  Oliver Cromwell failed in making England a Christian nation.  The Puritans also attempted to make a Christian nation and John Calvin even tried his hand at it while mayor of Geneva--both utter failures and examples that the Great Commission is to spread the gospel and change lives, not to change the government--the Bible is a beacon of light unto salvation, not a social tool for government reform.


In summation, Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony wanted to advance the kingdom of Christ when he settled here, but he misunderstood the Great Commission and the doctrine of eschatology.  It is a well-known fact that the Salem witch hunts showed the failure of instituting the Christian faith and making the Bible itself the law of the land.  Jesus will bring about His kingdom in due time when the body is full and complete with all His lost sheep saved.   Soli Deo Gloria!  

Transcendent Truth...

"If we are not governed by God, we will be ruled by tyrants." (William Penn)

NB: TRANSCENDENT TRUTH IS ABSOLUTE AND OBJECTIVE, NOT DEPENDING UPON OPINION OR POPULARITY, TRUE WHETHER BELIEVED OR NOT.


Morality is based upon transcendent truth and is not subject to debate.--it's not based on private opinion or feelings, but on God's inner law that we all have in our conscience. God's truth is objective truth and is true regardless of whether believed or not! All the foundations of society come apart by destroying the basis of truth based upon the facts, whether they like them or not, and whether they support their worldview and opinions or not. In denying truth, like Oliver Wendel Holmes did, "law is the majority vote that can lick all others--[how bleak an outlook!]."

Christians believe in a supreme entity of truth that is personified or incarnated in Christ as its exemplar. All we need to know is in Him and revealed by knowing Him. Every academic discipline is fulfilled in Him. Some things are true, but not truth; all truth meets at the top and is God's truth, which has the almighty power to transform, not just inform. In our day politics is leaning toward pragmatism, in which belief system truth is irrelevant and is not the test of an idea--whether it works is the litmus test (known as pragmatism)! Does it work for you? New Age believers think truth is whatever they "feel" is right for them. Postmodernism denies any Truth with a capital T and sees it all as relevant--that may be true for you, but not for me!

Is is any wonder that the governmental spin disregards truth and that it's absolute? Now we have to deal the post-factual world and the alternative fact, which is something related to an opinion, not substantiated--unfounded allegations and truth claims. When you destroy the validity of truth, as Pilate cynically asked Jesus: "What is truth?" you destroy the very foundation of all knowledge. We have nothing to have agreement on and cannot even compromise because we cannot agree as to what the facts are and how to arrive at truth.

Science is only one way to ascertain truth, divine revelation is another; for the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. It is fallacious to believe that only religious people have taken a leap of faith; all worldviews start with some assertion they cannot prove--even nihilists have faith and scientists believe irrationally in science and have made a religion out of it. Faith in science is still faith--it's not a matter of faith versus reason, then, but faith in which set of presuppositions you wish to make your starting point and an axis of learning or foundation.

It is a sad commentary on our culture that truth is being filtered and downgraded to such ideas as "fake news." If the facts don't fit their opinions they automatically reject them as fake news. We don't accept or reject evidence according to whim or our worldview but make our opinions up according to the facts. Some facts may seem like a hard pill to swallow, but we must align our faith and worldview according to reality, and not a parallel universe in a fact-free bubble or reality.

Journalists must keep each other honest and seek the truth behind the story--just the facts without putting a spin on it like an administration does for damage control. The truth will eventually be known so why not be on the side of the truth? You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time, they say!

There are two kinds of law: natural law or God's law (according to His nature) and legal positivism (that which the powers that be make up as they go along and force on the masses). Just because some power elites decide to make a law and enforce it doesn't make it right in God's eyes. Some laws are unjust and Christians ought to oppose them with civil disobedience because they violate transcendent law from God, which we all know in our conscience.

The ancient Greeks sought for truth, beauty, and goodness. You can make any truth claim you desire; however, it must be substantiated to be true. Many conclusions are possible from truth claims and conclusions are not true or false, but valid or invalid, depending upon the line of reasoning and the premise or foundation facts. Truth is not elusive, but God-given and we can personally know it by virtue of an encounter with the living God, via believing in Jesus and enjoying that relationship.
Since Jesus claimed to be "the Way," He is the gateway and starting point in our pilgrimage seeking truth--it all begins by knowing Him!
Soli Deo Gloria!

The Rise Of Scientism

Scientism is defined as the act of harnessing science for unscientific endeavors or academic disciplines. It's when one thinks the only reliable truth is from science.

Some secularist scientists believe all our problems can be scientifically resolved and that science has the answers to our dilemmas if given enough time. Excuse me: Science does not have all the answers! Scientism, by definition, is when you make statements that science has no right to make, or are out of its domain or sphere of knowledge. One notable example is humanist astronomer Carl Sagan saying that "the cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be!" This is a metaphysical statement that scientists have no authority to answer.

History, by its very nature, is nonrepeatable, and no one was there at creation or the Big Bang so we have no eyewitnesses to verify the evidence. It's speculation, not science--history is not science, because you need to be able to control variables and have laboratory conditions, as well as repeatability and measurability.

Science is not a source of ethical, metaphysical, or philosophical truth. This is why evolution is out of its realm of knowledge--no one saw life begin and all attempts at creating life in the lab have failed. There is no final conflict between science and the Bible, in fact, it was Christianity that made science possible by promoting an orderly and law-abiding cosmos. The first scientists, such as Sir Francis Bacon, were Christians, and you don't have to deny your faith to be a good scientist--the majority of astronomers today are not atheists at all. Galileo and Copernicus were Christians and they were among the earliest of scientists.

Eastern religions never would've given birth to science, since they believe reality is an illusion called Maya. Christians affirm a Lawgiver, orderly and predictable laws and consequences for violation. Christians believe all truth is God's truth, and that includes scientific truth, and that it all meets at the top as Aquinas said. The Bible has never been proven to be in scientific error, and the scientific statements it does make are accurate: for instance, the water cycle was described long before we figured it out.

Scientism is when scientists hijack their views in the name of science to make philosophical, ethical, and metaphysical claims that it doesn't have any right to make. Several Nobel scientists have written a book called Cosmos, Bios & Theos, and have agreed that God is necessary to explain the complexities behind creation; we are not some fluke of nature!

To show the vanity of putting faith in science, the French Academy of Science published a brochure listing fifty-one "scientific facts" that controverted the Bible--today none of the so-called facts are believed! The Bible doesn't need correction, just faith in its self-attestation--if it appealed to some outside source for authority and legitimacy, then it couldn't be the Word of God, as it needed a higher authority for verification. What we say is that you don't have to defend a caged lion, it will take care of itself--and so the Bible can prove itself, it just needs to be read or reread. When they ask you to prove it, you tell them, "No way! You prove it, just try reading it--it will prove itself!"

In sum, all science can do is discover the know-how and learn by the scientific method, whereas to find the know-why you need religion or philosophy--don't confuse the two domains! It is a sad commentary on our society that science has become a religion. Faith in science is still faith, and is no different than putting faith in God or religion--you just have different presuppositions as your starting point and all knowledge begins in faith. Soli Deo Gloria!