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The Making of a Worldview 6: Signs of a Successful Worldview
The Signs of a Successful Worldview
Limitations. This is how you can tell a fake worldview.
A worldview has answers to questions. Not vague answers, but very specific answers. Those answers are intimately tied into and connected to the questions and answers that establish the worldview. By that, I mean that the answers flow straight out of your idea about who you are, how you know things, and the moral standards you inherently aspire to. And the answers to these things are directly related to your idea about God. Not just god in general, but specifically the Triune God of the Bible.
Consider this question: How much of its citizens’ money is the government morally entitled to? There are possible answers:
a. As much as it likes
b. No more than 50% (or it might be even no more than 10%)
c. Nothing
Whatever the answer, you need to ask these questions:
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