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Discussions over worldviews can get muddled fast since every worldview comes with presuppositions, cultural blind-spots, and emotional baggage. For example, consider the common objection that if God is good, he should not allow bad things to happen. Otherwise he’s either evil for not intervening, and more like the Devil than God; or he’s not powerful enough to intervene, making him less than divine. But notice the problems that come with this objection:

  • This objection presupposes that we can know there could never be a reason why a good, powerful, and all-knowing God would allow bad things to happen. It also assumes that God is not wise enough to intend for good what others intend for evil.
  • This objection also has cultural blind spots. Interestingly, thinking people, even secular philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, rarely made this objection. What makes it prominent today? Surely we aren’t wiser or more sophisticated in our thinking.
  • Also, this is a fundamentally emotional objection despite the logical syllogism. With 24-hour news updates and immediate Twitter feeds filled with disasters and attacks, suffering and evil is always before us, causing to ask difficult questions about the world and who governs it.

Graham Cole of Beeson Divinity School slices through some of the difficulty and organizes our thinking when we talk on worldview in the short videos below, produced by Christ on Campus Initiative (CCI). I find his response most helpful in the second video when, with regard to the question about how we assess a worldview, he asks, “Is it scriptural, thinkable, and livable?” You may observe the similarity but also the simplicity compared to John Frame’s tri-perspectivalism and the normative-situational-existential categories.

 

 

 

 

Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?

In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.
But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.

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