Christian Worldview Concepts

Christian Worldview and Medical Ethics - Part I

Basic Beliefs

From this conclusion flow the two basic beliefs of the Christian worldview: God exists and God has spoken. God is the Source of all that exists. Apart from God, nothing exists. This is a belief held by faith, an inference to the best explanation for the presence of a universe containing complex, personal beings.

A second basic belief is that God has spoken. The universe itself is a revelation of God. Its complexity, uniformity and design point to the person and character of God. We can draw conclusions about God from the universe itself, a conclusion drawn by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter one. Furthermore, just as God is the Source of all that exists, He is the Source of all truth. No truth exists apart from God as its ultimate source. Thus, all truth is God's truth, which means that we should not be surprised if even a non-believer discovers some of it.

These two basic beliefs provide the conceptual footings for the foundational principles of the Christian worldview. We will now consider the foundational principles of the Christian worldview.