How to Build a Biblical Worldview
How you experience the world is explained by how you've been influenced by culture, environment, relationships, events, experiences, beliefs, and so much more. This is called a worldview: the cultivation of all that makes up who you are and how you see the world. It's not until you see yourself in the context of the creator that you can find a complete and clear picture of how you see the world. But, how do you do that? Where do you start?
Whether we realize it or not, everyone has a way of seeing the world. This is called a worldview. Answers to some hard questions reveal the truth about our behavior and thoughts. As followers of Jesus, we don't have to look farther than Genesis to answer these questions. A worldview is made of the following:
Origin: Where did I come from?
Identity: Who am I?
Purpose: Why am I here?
Morality: How should I act?
Destiny: Where am I going?
Genesis 1-2 explains that God, who is good, created humanity as his image bearers to partner with Him in sharing that goodness with the world so that creation can flourish. In these two chapters, the author isn't trying to give us an answer to every single question about creation, though they are important. God is trying to orient the reader's heart and mind, ushering in the idea that everything, even the reader, began from a good God.
Every worldview answers these two questions: What is the problem in life and what’s the solution? If God is the place to find good, then the problem is when people try to find good without God. The things we go after seem to never be enough: the house, the income, the grade. In life, chasing after the thing that seems good is easy. But, what if instead of chasing something that's always out of reach, you chased the thing chasing you - a good God.
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