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Have you ever asked these questions?  Yes?
Then you are one of many people consciously confronted with such questions. However, every person is concerned with these questions and answers them - consciously or unconsciously!
The answers you give to these questions form your worldview.

Your worldview consists of an arrangement of assumptions about the foundational structure of the world and how it functions.

It enables you
  -  to order reality and make statements about it
  -  to recognize connections and put them in the right place
  -  to estimate developments and possibly anticipate them
  -  to differentiate between important and unimportant
  -  to understand the consequences of actions

In order for you to adopt a worldview, you have to judge one model to be better than another.

One decisive criterion for that is that insofar as the points listed above are aligned with reality, you can actually live out your model in the real world.
If you should build your worldview on the fact that man can fly, for example, you will very quickly be brought down to the factual ground of physical laws.  This rather extreme example illustrates that certain basic assumptions regulate our lives quite naturally.

If you really get to the bottom of things, then three fundamental concepts of the origin and destiny of all that exists remain.  They are the following:

Does your worldview begin with matter, or perhaps by chance?  Then where will you end up?
What do you value in that kind of world? On what is the meaning of life built?  Chance and death? You would put all your faith in material things.

Or are spiritual energies (or "spirits"), which arbitrarily move and cause everything, behind all that happens? You would live your life in uncertainty, constantly trying to appease the spirits or channel the energies properly.  You have neither the responsibility nor the reasons to improve anything.

Or does your view of the world begin with a personal God? Does your life not derive worth in that way? Then you were created by intent and therefore with meaning. By this means you have intrinsic value, you are accountable to someone for your actions, and you promote hope and life!

If you now examine these different worldview models under the magnifying glass of reality, you can see that only the God of the Bible and the Biblical Christian Worldview can withstand this test.

As you can see, ideas have consequences – in your life and well beyond!
Your worldview determines your thinking and actions.  And this cannot remain a private matter because your thinking and actions determine what transpires in the family, work place, and in the society in which you live.

With the example of euthanasia this point becomes very evident.  If human beings are simply a more developed type of animal, there is no reason to ascribe any higher value to “it“ – which, of course, we do – and therefore to protect life.  Especially if one only measures according to usefulness.  Also if suffering is given as the motive for euthanasia – only with the Biblical Christian view of the world do you have the foundation for the unique value of humans.  The human is created in God’s image and is responsible to himself, but especially to God, for his actions.  Therefore human beings never have the right to decide whether or not another can live or if that life has value.

You make an imprint on the world around you by the worldview that you hold.  A Biblical Christian Worldview brings transforming power into every area of our social life and a perspective of hope for life.

Would you like the challenge of thinking through your basic assumptions and their consequences more carefully?  Would you like to know how our world has been molded or changed by the basic assumptions of others?  Allow yourself to be motivated in the School of Biblical Christian Worldview (SBCW) to let God transform your thinking and with that to bring change to the world.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but continually be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is-what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.”
Romans 12:2

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