Summit Bible College

Todd Warren

Biblical Worldview

Biblical Ethics

Purpose
To help the student develop a
Biblical Worldview useful for
confronting a variety of
worldviews and ethical
decisions

Biblical Worldview

Biblical Ethics

Todays Class
Introduction to Ethics and
Worldviews

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Ethics
From Ethos: A stall for hoses

Ethics

Ethics: What ought to be

Morality: An individuals response to ethics

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Ethics

Beneficial for
the common
good

Biblical Worldview

Ethics

Ethics: What ought to be

Biblical Ethics

Ethics

Beneficial for
the common
good

Biblical Worldview

Ethics

Ethics: Protect the common good

Damaging for
the common
good

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Ethics

Beneficial for
the common
good

Biblical Worldview

Ethics

Know your boundaries

The sliding line of ethics

Damaging for
the common
good

Biblical Ethics

Ethics

Beneficial for
the common
good

Biblical Worldview

Do not murder

Know your boundaries:

Example: Murder

Damaging for
the common
good

Biblical Ethics

Kill only the

deserving

Kill no
one

Capital Punishment

Soldiers
Euthanasia

Biblical Worldview
Kill only the willing

Rebellious

Kill anyone

Elderly Handicap

Kill the useless

Holocaust Ethnic cleansing

Religious expansion

Kill the threats to culture

Criminals

Kill the threats to society

Do not Murder

Ethics

When is it ethical to take a life?

Biblical Ethics

Ethics
Ethics are determined by ones worldview:

The lens through which one

views life and forms the way
they make decisions

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Worldviews
The Big Five Worldviews

Naturalism

Pantheism

Theism

Atheism
Agnosticism
Existentialism

Hinduism
Taoism
Buddhism
New Age
Consciousness

Christianity
Judaism
Islam

Material world
is all that
exists
Man is a
chance
product
Truth is
provable
No moral
norm

Spiritual world
is all that exists
Man is one with
reality
Truth is
oneness with
universe
No good and
evil, just
unenlightened

God exist
Man is created
Truth is
revealed
Absolute
moral values
come from
God

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Spiritism
Thousands
of
Religions

Spirit beings
govern
Man is created
by the gods
Shaman types
reveal truth
Dont irritate
the gods

Postmodernism
Postmodernism

Reality is socially
constructed
Man is product of
society
Truth is relative
Values socially
constructed

Influences of our Worldview

The spirit of the world

The spirit of the antichrist

The spirit of holiness

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Influences of our Worldview

The spirit of the world
Passive opposition to God.
Natural, carnal, motivated by sin.
Contradicts the spirit of holiness
Appeals to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and boastful pride (1 Jn. 2:16)

The spirit of the antichrist

The spirit of holiness

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Influences of our Worldview

The spirit of the world
Passive opposition to God.
Natural, carnal, motivated by sin.
Contradicts the spirit of holiness
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and boastful pride

(1 Jn. 2:16)

The spirit of the antichrist

Violent opposition to God.
Evil, spiritual, motivated by spiritual forces of wickedness.
Deceives, tempts, accuses, destroys.
This is the spirit of the antichristone who denies the Father and the Son (1 Jn. 2:22, 4:3)

The spirit of holiness

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Influences of our Worldview

The spirit of the world
Passive opposition to God.
Natural, carnal, motivated by sin.
Contradicts the spirit of holiness
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and boastful pride (1 Jn. 2:16)

The spirit of the antichrist

Violent opposition to God.
Evil, spiritual, motivated by spiritual forces of wickedness.
Deceives, tempts, accuses, destroys.
This is the spirit of the antichristone who denies the Father and the Son (1 Jn. 2:22, 4:3)

The spirit of holiness

Reveals the realities of God and His true character.
Holy, spiritual, motivated by love.
Contradicts the desires of the flesh
Jesus through the spirit of holiness was declared to be the Son of God (Rom. 1:4)

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Christian Worldview at Risk

The spirit of the world and the spirit of the
antichrist have put the Christian Worldview
at risk.
Is your worldview at risk?
Has your Christian Worldview been
compromised?
Examine yourselves
to see whether you are in the faith;
test yourselves.
2 Corinthians 13:5a

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