Two Competing Worldviews: Part One

Despite the myriad of religions and political ideologies that permeate the world, there are only two worldviews that actually exist.

There's the biblical Judeo-Christian worldview and the secular-progressive worldview.

The biblical Judeo-Christian worldview teaches that all human beings are born with an inherent sinful nature (Romans 3:23) that predisposes them to selfishness, nihilism, narcissism, debauchery, dishonesty, violence, sexual immorality etc. Thus, all the evil that has plagued the world since the dawn of history has resulted from man's corrupt nature.

It was Jesus Christ Himself who explained that one day to a group of arrogant, self-righteous Pharisees after they declared His disciples morally unclean for eating with unwashed hands.

Christ stated: "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man unclean; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean." (Matthew 15:17-20)

The secular-progressive worldview teaches the exact opposite. This worldview teaches that human beings are born inherently good and righteous. According to this worldview, human beings are corrupted not by some inherent sinful nature, but rather by their surrounding environment.

Therefore, according to this worldview, man must correct and perfect his environment rather than change his heart in order for peace to be realized on earth. This is why secular-progressives are so vested in big government; because they believe that they can create a social utopia on earth by greatly expanding government and its powers.

This is the prevailing philosophy behind gun control, politically-correct speech codes, the redistribution of wealth, the war on poverty, entitlement programs etc. Under this worldview, there are many victims and few villains.

But stop and think for a moment. If man is born with an inherently good nature as secular-progressives claim, then how and why does evil exist? And where does it come from?

If human beings are indeed born good rather than evil, then such evils as poverty, racism, violence, murder, theft etc. shouldn't exist.

But they do. And that proves the biblical worldview correct and the secular-progressive worldview wrong. As in dead wrong.

Nevertheless, secular-progressives refuse to admit that their worldview contradicts itself despite the evidence. And their refusal to admit that their ideology is wrong proves that pride--another sin that's a staple of fallen human nature--lives in their hearts.

The Bible reveals that the only solution to eradicate sin and evil is through the Cross. Christ emphatically stated that we must be born again. (John 3:3) He didn't mean that we must be born again physically--that is impossible.

We must be born again spiritually by faith. We must recognize that Jesus Christ died in our place on the Cross for our sins. When we truly believe that in our hearts and confess that with our mouths, we are born again unto God and receive eternal life. (Romans 10:9-11) And God's Holy Spirit then indwells us to regenerate us and mold us into righteous human beings that abhor sin and reject evil.

That's the only antidote for sin and evil. Jesus Christ is the only solution for true peace on earth. Nothing else has ever worked. And nothing else will ever work.