Where Am I From?

We must know the Source that caused us before we can know Who am I? and Why am I here? Our identity and purpose were decided by our Maker. Whoever or whatever formed man, must logically be now sustaining us.
The Christian Worldview
The Secular Worldview
When we can get past every foolish idea that time, matter, chance or anything else other than God could be the only source of every good, and reject the secular and unscientific notion that any material or mechanism has the power to improve its own being, then we can begin to see the invisible, awesome, deliberate, directed, delicate, divine Power that has prescribed every detail of our life and our world.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. (Ec 11:5).

His awesome workmanship invites us to acknowledge, thank, admire, honor, imitate, emulate, obey and even sacrifice ourselves for that Greatness. Basic to the Biblical Worldview is a totally in-control, all-powerful God ruling our world. Our sovereign Designer gave life His purpose, and gives each of us His specific calling. Our eternal living, loving Creator gave us motivation and direction in His eternal written instructions.
Solomon's wisdom: Give your Creator the hearing He deserves while you are young.

Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. (Eccl. 12:1)

Our personal worldview includes a God-concept that sets our self-concept and life-purpose. How we believe God worked to create and sustain our being tells how we, His workmanship, should respond. The Creator's methods assign meaning. His design reveals our purpose. The kind of Creator our worldview honors sets our own worth and purpose. His greatness sets my potential. His purpose is my greatest motivation. As I thank Him, He lifts me.

I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from Thee, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Thy book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.(Ps 139:14-16).

When the so-called 'science' of evolution is forced on youth, its attendant abhorent life-meanings are kept out of sight by barricading against any 'religious' debate. When the secular worldview insists that still-unknown, aimless forces caused all the beauty, design, and order we see, including our own marvelous being, it births a monster.

Evolutionists recoil from their own monster.

"Perhaps most importantly, if the world and its creatures developed purely by material, physical forces, it could not have been designed and has no purpose or goal.
The fundamentalist, in contrast, believes that everything in the world, every species and every characteristic of every species, was designed by an intelligent, purposeful artificer, and that it was made for a purpose.
Nowhere does this contrast apply with more force than to the human species. Some shrink from the conclusion that the human species was not designed, has no purpose, and it’s the product of mere material mechanisms—but this seems to be the message of evolution."

(Evolutionist Douglas Futuyama,
Science on Trial p.228)

Today's epidemic of pride, inferiority, futility and despair among young people is the predictable product of forcing the secular worldview on them before they have any will or skill to question it.

These ugly consequences are inescapable for any who deny our supernatural Cause when they answer the question, Where am I from?