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Breakpoint

Are We Talking about Christian Worldview, or a Biblical Worldview?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John Stonestreet and Shane Morris tackle a tough question: The Colson Center always talks about a Christian worldview. Given that many theologically liberal churches hold positions we wouldn't call Christian, their worldview is not the same. Wouldn't it be better to call it a "biblical worldview?" But even then, there are many interpretations of the Bible. How do I talk about worldview with friends?

The second question refers to John's recent BreakPoint commentary in which he claims all the furor over the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett all stems back to the issue of abortion. One listener challenges, "Isn't it really about hypocrisy?"  That is, the hypocrisy of the Republicans voting on a nominee before the election now, but not in 2016 when Obama was in office.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

0:06.3

I'm Shane Morris with John Stone Street here to answer your worldview related questions.

0:11.0

These questions are based on Breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired lately,

0:16.0

short courses we've held, and articles and columns that we've posted.

0:19.4

And I want to jump right in this week, John,

0:21.1

with a question about the definition of a Christian worldview. Who has one? And what are the

0:27.1

boundaries of that worldview? And how much diversity can we allow? So this is the question we received.

0:33.5

It says, I'm a firm believer in the historical interpretation of the Bible and agree with the Christian worldview I hear on Breakpoint.

0:40.0

I have friends, however, who attend a more liberal Christian denomination and their pastor's worldview is not the same.

0:46.8

With so many Christian denominations espousing different beliefs about what is true, is there more than one Christian worldview?

0:53.6

Would a more accurate term be

0:55.0

biblical worldview? But even if we called it biblical worldview, would that solve the problem

1:00.0

since there are various interpretations of Scripture? I think liberal Christian denominations in particular

1:05.2

have adopted a secular worldview, but how do I speak to my friends who believe that their

1:10.0

worldview is also

1:11.3

Christian?

1:12.2

Welcome to our world.

1:13.5

I mean, we have fought through, you know, is a Christian worldview, as a biblical worldview,

1:17.8

how many worldviews are there, and so on.

1:20.0

And there's a number of reasons which are probably more nerdy than helpful at this point to say

1:24.9

why we landed where we did using language of a Christian

1:28.7

worldview. But baseline, when we talk about a worldview, we're talking about that lens

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