What is the base of what is right and what is wrong? How can we really determine the morality by which to govern ourselves and society? What is truth? Do I get to decide... or do you? Perhaps our neighbor down the street has the "right" way in which right, wrong and truth is determined. Maybe the "right" way to determine morality and truth is to vote on it, then the majority has the say.
Sadly enough, these questions do plague society. This indecisiveness is a result of a worldwide move away from what is considered "knowable truth." Historically speaking a large part of the world in times past, recognized that there was a such thing as absolutes. They considered law and morality as something that did not change. Though they did not always follow it, men recognized that the base for law was not from man, but from God.
Today however, the predominant view of the world has been shaped into an entirely different mold. It stems from how men view their past, and what they have been taught about their past. The truth about God has been relegated to a wispy cloud to be shaped by one’s own imagination. Or to the stuff of fairy tales and legends. It is thought that true knowledge about God cannot be known, or that the only real knowledge comes from the scientific realm, and God doesn’t exist.
Hosea 4:6 says: "For lack of knowledge my people are destroyed." The scriptures say that God can be know and to not know Him is cause for destruction. The breakdown of morality in society need not be discussed here we can see it everywhere we look. However the cause of this needs to be preached in every church and on every street corner.
World view is how someone views the world around them. It is the "context" in which they make their decisions. It also has to do with their origins and their history. "Where do I come from, and why am I here?"
The Christian world view states that the universe was created by God and that He also created first man Adam and placed him in a created garden which contained created animals. But unlike the animals God breathed in Adam a breath and man became a living soul. Then God took from Adam a rib and made Eve the mother of all living. He made both sinless. Which simply means they had not disobeyed God yet. He also made them with an ability to choose whether or whether not to obey. The Bible tells that they did not obey, and because of Adam’s disobedience... sin entered the world. A great fall took place that completely separated man from God. One very important aspect of the Christian world view is that it views man as "made in the image of God"even though he is fallen. And it views the laws of the creator as being above those of man. God does not change, therefore His laws do not change. The Christian world view sees the murder of another man as sin. Not because man made this law, but because God did and His law does not change. It is higher than man’s law. This world view believes that because there is law from and absolute lawgiver there is a law that transcends man...a law man is obligated to obey.
On the other hand there is another world view that exists. It is one that states that all things are a product of random chance. That all things basically made themselves. Man is nothing more than a random process...a chemical reaction...So he is really no more special than any other animal or rock for that matter. It states that there is no God and therefore no higher law than man’s law. So if some men arbitrarily decide to make murder legal... they see themselves justified in doing so. We have seen the results of this world view played out on many stages in history.....In Nazi Germany with Hitler’s policies. In the Soviet Union with Lenin and Stalin’s policies. We see it played out today in the form of abortion and genocide.
These two world views are antithetical. In other words their views and therefore their out comes are as far as "the east is from the west." They are polar opposites and cannot be melded together, though many have tried.
An all out assault has been made on the book of Genesis in the past 120 years or so. It has been called a "book of fairy tales" by the secular scientific community. They have inserted their own world view for the truth. Why? Because they believe if they can undercut the foundation of the Bible then the rest will fall by default. If we cannot trust Genesis and its description of the creation, then we cannot believe the section on Adam’s sin. If cannot trust the Biblical account of Adam’s sin and the fall of man, then we cannot see a reason to need a Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ. John 1 speaks of this same Jesus creating the worlds. If the account in Genesis cannot be trusted, then it makes Jesus a liar which is blasphemy.
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