Ultimate Standards

  • Worldview Authority, Indoctrination and the Implications of Deuteronomy 6

    Just a reminder: “A worldview is… ‘Our conception of the world around us, stemming from an authoritative source that we submit to, affecting all areas of activity in our life.’” Contained within this definition are two concepts, one stated and the other implied, that might cause a knee-jerk reaction against it. The first concept is…

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  • Why the Divergence When the Same Standard is Shared?

    “Your assumptions can’t be validated.  Not everyone at the founding of this nation had a biblical worldview, many popular men were at best deists; Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are just a couple names that illustrate this point.”  That’s what the email said that I had been waiting for.  Those weren’t the exact words of…

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  • Two Sorts of Stone: Fashioned by Man or Fashioned by God

    When last we met we began to have a conversation about worldviews. In that discussion there were five questions that were asked. The first was “What is a worldview?” The second said, “If I have one, then how does it function?” Questions 3 & 4 queried “What [are worldviews] founded upon,” and “What [are worldviews]…

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