A discussion of worldviews with a particular focus on the Christian worldview.

1. The Christian Worldview
By
Dayo Adewoye

2. What's a Worldview

3. “A set of ideas, beliefs, convictions, or values that provides a
framework or map to help us understand God, the world, and
our relationship to God and the world.”
David Noebel
“One's worldview consists of one's most basic beliefs and
framework of understanding.”
W. Andrew Hoffecker
“A comprehensive life system that seeks to answer the basic
questions of life.”
David Dockery
“The sum total of our beliefs about the world, the "big picture"
that directs our daily decisions and actions.“
Charles Colson

4. Who are we and where did we come from?
What has gone wrong with
the world?
What can be done to
fix it?
Basic Questions

5. Many Answers

6. The Christian Worldview
An understanding of reality as given in the
Bible and centring on God's work of redemption
through Jesus Christ.
Based on Divine Revelation
History is a story in 3 parts - Creation, Fall
and Redemption.

7. Creation

8. There is a Personal, moral and self-revealing
God
God created the world, is immanent within it,
transcends it completely, and governs it wisely.
Man is a spiritual being because he was created
in God's likeness. Thus he possesses dignity.

9. Fall

10. The world is sinful
and disorderly
because humanity
willfully turned
against his
creator.
Therefore
Redemption is
necessary.

11. Redemption

12. God has revealed himself in history. This
revelation unveils God's plan for the salvation of the
world through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Christ came to establish God's kingdom on earth,
which involves not only the salvation of souls but
the transformation of society.
The flow of time will be terminated by the return
of Jesus Christ, when he will judge both the living
and the resurrected dead.

13. Why Christianity?
It begins with an accurate diagnosis of the human
dilemma.
It provides the only answer to the problem of sin.
It's offer of salvation is based on historical truth.