OUR WORLD'S WORLDVIEW

 What's a worldview?

A worldview is the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. "[It's] any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement or religion that provides an overarching approach to understanding God, the world and man's relations to God and the world," says David Noebel, author of Understanding the Times.

For example, a 2-year-old believes he's the center of his world, a secular humanist believes that the material world is all that exists, and a Buddhist believes he can be liberated from suffering by self-purification.

Someone with a biblical worldview believes his primary reason for existence is to love and serve God.

Whether conscious or subconscious, every person has some type of worldview. A personal worldview is a combination of all you believe to be true, and what you believe becomes the driving force behind every emotion, decision and action. Therefore, it affects your response to every area of life: from philosophy to science, theology and anthropology to economics, law, politics, art and social order — everything.

For example, let's suppose you have bought the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder (secular relative truth) as opposed to beauty as defined by God's purity and creativity (absolute truth). Then any art piece, no matter how vulgar or abstract, would be considered "art," a creation of be
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Obviously one's worldview involves one's soul or "inner man".

OUR WORLD'S WORLDVIEW

"FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL BE YOUR HEART"  MATTHEW 6:21

WHAT DO WE STRIVE FOR??

WHAT IS SUCCESS   FOR US?

In America, many if not most view success as having accumulated an abundance of material goods or someone who made themselves wealthy.    

That worldview enables us to distinguish right from wrong., good from bad, useful from useless, and  appropriate from inappropriate."

I believe our worldview demonstrates the measure we use to judge success of a person.  Where one can view the person's entire life--especially an individual looking back over their own life. 

This is not simply an academic exercise, however some have laid out some fairly accurate definitions. 

GOD'S WORLDVIEW--THAT WE (HIS CREATED BEINGS) SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME

Webster's Translation 1833 EPHESIANS 1:1-10
1	Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
2	Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4	According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5	Having predestinated us to the adoption of children to himself by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6	To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath made us accepted in the beloved:
7	In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8	In which he hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence;
9	Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10	That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might collect in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: