What is a Worldview?

Everyone has a Worldview —however clear or foggy, right or wrong.

Our Worldview Is:

• The lens through which we view, evaluate and understand all reality. • our paradigm — our frame of reference — our belief system. • Filtering what we will accept about God, our self, our origin, our destiny • Defining life, death, values, morals, goals and relationships. • interpreting events, people, evidence and ideas; • affecting our priorities, our decisions, and our success; • setting the values we place on people and things; • filtering which new information we will accept; • includes blindspots, bias and distortions; • answering Life's Great Questions; • discerning what is truth and error

Our Worldview Determines for Us:

• What is Important; • What is Real • What is Valuable; • How things Began; • What Power is in Control; • How we Should Live; • What is Right and Wrong; • How to Solve Problems; • Where we are Headed;

How Good is My Worldview

Is my present Worldview helping or harming me?
• A worldview is mostly transparent to its wearer.
• Only with careful penetrating, honest interrogation can we hope to examine our own worldview.

Is My Worldview Strong?

When all our major beliefs harmonize in one consistent, coherent, comprehensive frame of truth, they form a strong clear Worldview to guide us to success in life. All parts of a strong, helpful worldview must integrate.

The Master Deceiver wants to "sift us as wheat" by fracturing and fragmenting our worldview.

For example,
we can't embrace a Godless creation in our past and also hold a God-central continuation in the present and have a consistent worldview. Human"experts" interpreting physical evidence can only speculate about the unseen powers that caused and now conserve the beauty, design, complexity, intricacy, majesty, immensity, that we see. When Bible believers begin to admire the latest speculations from atheistic scientists, they (perhaps unknowingly) begin to disintegrate their own worldview. Godless explanations reinforce atheism, but they bring crippling double-mindedness for Bible believers.

If we fracture our worldview and isolate the Bible doctrine of creation, thinking that minor accommodations to Godless explanations will play no mischief in other Bible principles, we are deceived. Inerrancy in God's revelation means unity and harmony from cover to cover. Plenty of truth exists outside the Bible, but believers "prove all things" by rejecting anything that argues with anything God has said.

Where did I get My Worldview?
• Our Worldview has been assembled from all we have accepted previously —especially the earliest ideas to reach us through family, teachers, experiences, thoughts, habits and lifestyle.

• Long before we had the skill or will to challenge them, others planted foundational ideas in our minds.

• Two long-standing, most influential Worldviews have captured the minds of large followings. The Biblical Worldview and the Secular Worldview. These two worldviews answer all our significant questions —but with opposite answers. In every element we are forced to choose. Often we do not know all the arguments, reasons or consequences of our choices, when we choose. Nevertheless as we embrace each belief, it begins to build barricades in our minds against any later-arriving ideas that differ —right or wrong.