Quotes about Worldview

Voddie Baucham, a former all-American football player, offers a catchy athletic metaphor. "Sending young people into the world without a biblical worldview," he says, "is like sending a ballplayer onto the field without a playbook."17 Team spirit is not enough. An athlete needs to comprehend the game's strategy.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

The core of the evolution controversy can thus be phrased in simple terms: Did mind create matter? Or did matter give rise to mind? According to a theistic worldview, mind is primary. It is the fundamental creative force in the universe (whether God created the world quickly by fiat or slowly by a gradual process). Darwin reversed things. According to his theory, matter is the primary creative force, and mind emerged only very late in evolutionary history.10

Redemption consists primarily of casting out our mental idols and turning back to the true God. And when we do that, we will experience His transforming power renewing every aspect of our lives. To talk of a Christian Worldview is simply another way of saying that when we are redeemed, our entire outlook on life is re-centered on God and rebuilt on His revealed truth.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything.