The Lord s Will Help Shaping The Worldview Of Christian...

Sir Francis Bacon once wrote: â€Å"There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power† (qtd. in H. M. Morris 22). Indeed, the Bible reveals to man the answers to the questions in life, especially regarding the important ones that shape a person’s worldview. Within the Scriptures, notably in Genesis, one can find the explanation concerning the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. Chapter 1 to 11 of the Genesis described the way God created the world, and through these chapters we learn about His’s plan for mankind (New International Version Bible). Furthermore,†¦show more content†¦Light and darkness are two sides of all creations, as it both exists each creature, symbolize goodness and evil. Water and air are crucial elements for life, as three fourth of the human body composed of water, and oxygen aids in the metabolism the living beings, including animals, plants, and human. God created the sun and the moon to govern the light, but He also created the star. At first, it can be thought as peculiar since the star do not holds any special quality in showing the light on the earth. However, within the galaxy, the earth is placed in a special position that enable us to discover the wonderful beauty of the universe (A Special Place in the Universe). It can be interpreted that God had placed us there and created the stars to urge man to learn and explore and satisfy the thirst for knowledge. Undoubtedly, the world as we see it was not created by chance according to the popular science. Evolutionists and Big Bang theorists believe that after billions and billions of years, after a sequences of trials and error, the universe was created and man had evolved from the non-living through random chances. While it remains one of the prominent view since Darwin first published his book The Origin of Species, it failed to explain how all the fundamentals of life, from the smallest molecular to the largest planet, are finely tuned with one another, that the missing of even one component means non-existence. Hence, life did not happen by