It's Tuesday, January 28, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It's often referred to as the binary, and that is the fact that human beings tend to line up into discernible lines. You can call them

what you want. You can call it Democratic and Republican. You can call it liberal and conservative.

You just go down the line. And the interesting thing is that so many people end up on opposing sides

of different issues. So what's the explanation? The explanation is that even though modern people

have so many different positions, we have to take so many different positions, we have to say yes

or no to so many different issues, but the underlying reality is that even as these issues are

different, the basic divergence is at a far deeper level. It's at the level of presuppositions.

It's at the level of worldview.

So when we talk about the Christian worldview,

we need to understand that Christians, in times past,

didn't have to have the same kind of conversation.

That's because through many centuries in Western civilization,

the Christian worldview was the only available worldview. So you weren't looking at

a binary in which you had a Christian worldview, opposed to some other worldview. In most cases now,

it is the modern, secular, materialistic worldview. And so you look at the reality and you say,

here's an issue, LGBTQ. Now, admittedly, that's a number of issues, but let's

just say it's one issue for a moment. LGBTQ. Are you for the LGBTQ revolution? Are you against it?

Then change to the issue of abortion. Are you pro-abortion or are you pro-life? Let's shift to another

position. What can be the definition of marriage? Is it just merely, essentially, always the union

of a man and a woman? Or can it be any number of other permutations or arrangements? The interesting

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