CONFLICTING WORLDVIEWS

Conflicting Worldviews 

(Exerpt from The Kingdom: Every Square Inch, pgs 292-3)

We have followed the unfolding of opposing worldviews. One seeks to influence the other to the glory of God; the other seeks to destroy the glory of God.

Mohler warns,

Christians must realise that the more enduring contest is not between rival candidates but between rival worldviews. A clash of worldviews reveals all the fault lines of a society, from education and economics, to arts and entertainment. Eventually, everything is at stake. Over time, every culture conforms in general terms to one worldview, not to more than one.[1]

This conflict started after Adam’s fall in paradise. Abel brought an acceptable offering to the Lord; Cain’s offering was not acceptable. In fury, Cain murdered his brother. Cain’s descendants set up a kingdom to oppose God’s promise to Adam to provide someone who will crush the head of the serpent. The influence of Cain’s people led to utter corruption and the destruction of the world in God’s judgment through the flood.

God made a covenant with Noah, rescued him and his family and renewed the covenant promise He had made with Adam. Noah was a righteous man who walked with God. Through his family the world became populated again, and from his loins the Christ would come as the Victor over all adversity.

Some hundreds of years later, God made a covenant with Abraham. In his Seed the world was blessed because He “disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it” (Col. 2:15). His victory over all powers was comprehensive and all-inclusive.

God’s covenant with Adam ran through Noah to Abraham and his descendants and determined that they live as God’s own people in His kingdom which they share with the godless and unrighteous.

The shared cultural activities between Christians (the ‘Church’) and non-Chris tians (the ‘world’) are not always amiable. Culture-sharing has limits. As we have noted earlier in this book, Lamech’s cultural achievements became a lure for the descendants of Seth, and the sons of the ‘gods’ married the daughters of Seth’s line’. In the end, every inclination of man’s heart became evil (Gen. 6:1-5; see also Continued Regression in Chapter Three above). From the very beginning the prince of this world intruded into God’s redemptive kingdom with the purpose of usurping His glory. Pgs. 292-3.

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[1] R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Gathering Storm, Secularism, Culture, and the Church (Nelson Books, Nashville, Tennessee, 2020 190.