Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview Review last week Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview Review last week The four elements of worldview How did it all begin? Where did it all go wrong? How does it get fixed? What happens now? What is truth? It is revealed by God It is not constructed It is objective and knowable It is absolute It is universal Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective There is not an inch in the entire domain of our human life of which Christ, who is sovereign of all, does not proclaim 'Mine!'… Abraham Kuyper. " Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the Prime Reality? “The eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences, infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only to himself, because an infinite mind can only be comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is essentially just, and right, and kind.” Adam Clarke, an early Methodist minister (late 18th cent.) quoted by Dallas Willard in Divine Conspiracy, pg 65-66 Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? What is a human being? Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? What is a human being? What happens to a person at death? Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? What is a human being? What happens to a person at death? Why is it possible to know anything at all? Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview Review last week The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? What is a human being? What happens to a person at death? Why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right and wrong? Rutland Worldview Study A Biblical Worldview Review last week The elements of the Really Real WV – from a Biblical perspective What is Prime Reality? What is the nature of external reality? What is a human being? What happens to a person at death? Why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right and wrong? What is the meaning of human history? The end