Though people will continue to suppress the evidence of God’s existence, what God has created continues to challenge them, because physical nature and human nature constantly provide evidence of a Creator. Test the Worldview: Does It Contradict What We Know About the World? The third step is to test the worldview against the facts of experience, which is to say, the truths of general revelation. Why? Because one part is always far too small to explain the whole thing. When one part of the creation is deified or idolized, every other part will necessarily be denigrated. Once we identify the idol, we need to look for its reductionism, the way in which it leads to a low view of human life. If human beings will not worship the God who created them, they will still worship something-something that provides an alternate explanation of the world’s origins or that provides an understanding of the meaning of life. Every non-biblical worldview begins with some kind of a God substitute-an idol. In Romans 1 she finds five strategic principles that “provide a basic game plan for making sense of any worldview across the board-even the cutting edge ideas of our day-and then to craft a compelling positive case for Christianity.” Here is a brief explanation of each. While most explanations of this text dwell on behavior, Pearcey focuses on the mind, showing the ways in which the unbelieving mind is affected by sin so that an entire worldview becomes completely opposed to God. Idols have consequences, and God gives up those who worship them to a debased mind, so that they become futile in their thinking and dishonorable in their behavior. These are not merely idols of wood and stone, but also ideas, any idea that provides an alternate explanation for the meaning and purpose of life. People hide from God by creating idols, God substitutes. As people turn away from God, they suppress the truth that God makes known to them through creation and through human nature. There are all kinds of books that make a similar promise, but this one has a noteworthy difference: Pearcey looks to Romans 1 to find a kind of apologetics training manual for identifying and challenging any other worldview.Īt the start of Paul’s letter to the church in Rome, he claims that all humanity has access to evidence for God’s existence, and then describes what happens when people refuse to acknowledge him. In Finding Truth, Pearcey offers 5 principles meant to unmask our culture’s endless worldview alternatives to Christianity-secularism, atheism, and the like. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron
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