Biblical Worldview Essay

A person’s worldview is subjective. It works for and is meaningful to them alone, though others like them, might have a similar take on the world and how it is viewed. My hope is to impart to the reader my personal worldview; why I believe it to be true and how it applies to my day to day life.

I’ve lived long enough in this world to realize that all worldviews created by man fall short to satisfy because of the simple fact that they were created by man. The biblical worldview, which is not created by man, but God Himself, is the only one that truly satisfies me. Phillips, Brown and Stonestreet (2008) wrote,

“Christians believe God has spoken and revealed the essentials of a worldview that is genuine and objectively true. Through His creation (the universe) and His Word (the Bible), God has shown man how to make sense of his

I believe these authors have quite succinctly explained what a biblical worldview is and what it encompasses. I couldn’t agree with them more. My biblical worldview might be in alignment with other Christians, but by no means all of them, and it definitely conflicts with the majority of people in the world. Cardon (2008) wrote, “Nevertheless, by virtue of adhering to, with greater or lesser fidelity, the vision of reality set out by the Bible, and structured by the Bible’s story line, such a Christian enjoys a worldview—a view of the world—that necessarily conflicts with the assorted worldviews of surrounding people who do not adopt that vision of reality and the trust and obedience it elicits” (p. 98). For definitions sake, I would like to clarify that a worldview represents a whole gathering of assumptions and beliefs about what is real, how things fit together, and how things happen. Moreau (2000) quoted Nash (1992) when he wrote, “A worldview, then, is a conceptual scheme by which we consciously or unconsciously place or fit everything we believe and by which we interpret and judge reality” (p.