DEVELOPING A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW

Group Question1. Read Genesis 11:1-4 – What are these

people seeking?

Group Question2. Define “Redemption”

Redemption• Deliverance on payment of ransom.

• The Payment of an obligation.

• Fixing what went wrong.

3 Questions1. Where did we come from & who are we?2. What has gone wrong with the world?3. What can we do to fix it?

Genesis 11:4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we

be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

Escalator MythAlso known as the “myth of progress” is the

idea that history is moving forward toward an earthly utopia brought about by

human means.

SIN

CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW TIMELINE

THE CROSS SECOND COMING

EARTHLY UTOPIA HUMAN PROGRESS LIFE

CREATION ETERNITY

HEGEL‘S MYTH OF PROGRESS TIMELINE

Matthew 25:31-33When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people

one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the

sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

Utopian WorldviewHuman beings are intrinsically good and,

under the right social conditions, their good nature will emerge.

LeninWe may regard the material and cosmic world

as the supreme being, as the cause of all causes, as the creator of heaven and earth.

MarxA being only considers himself independent when he stands on his own feet; and he only

stands on his own feet when he owes his existence to himself.

Genesis 3:4-5But the serpent said to the woman, “You will

not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Leviticus 16:10 KJVBut the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Updated Marxism

Scape Goat

Margaret SangerWhich of the following reflects what Margaret Sanger believed?

Sexual restraint is good for you because it build strength of character

Sexual restraint makes people intellectually weak

Sexual restraint can lead to a better way of life

Margaret SangerThrough sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to an earthly paradise.

John 3:19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.