According to my good friend Greg Enos: “A worldview is simply the set of beliefs that a person has about the biggest questions in life. It’s like a pair of glasses or lenses through which we view the world every day.”1 Greg goes on to say that some of the questions we all face in life include questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. According to Greg a worldview provides truth claims about reality.2
Deciding upon which worldview you should accept obviously will have a profound effect on the quality of your life now and your future destiny. Over the past 18 months, since I started my daily devotional, I have attempted to show my readers why Christianity is not only the best worldview, but the only one that has solid evidence to back it up. Whether from history, science, ethics and morality, prophecy, and any other discipline, Christianity and its truth claims about reality have stood the test of time.
Christianity is the only worldview that provides us with satisfactory answers to Greg’s questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. (Genesis 1) tells us all we need to know about the origin of the world and humanity. As far as meaning goes I believe the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks the question and then gives us the answer when it says: “What is the chief end of man?” It then shares the answer: “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.” When its comes to living a moral life all we need to do is read the four gospels and see how Jesus lived His life. His perfect way of living should be an example for all of us. And when it comes to our destiny, Christianity provides us with the ultimate answer – we were created to have eternal life through knowing Jesus.
I can’t think of a more wonderful worldview than the Christian one. It is full of joy and rich meaning and is so intellectually sound based on solid evidence. We can be confident that when we cast our lot with Jesus we have made a wise and life changing decision.
May the following quotes on Christianity give you more interesting ways in which Christianity is the finest worldview.3
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis
“Christianity is Christ plus nothing!” – Leonard Ravenhill
“Christianity isn’t all that complicated … it’s Jesus.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.” – Billy Graham
“Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.” – Eric Ludy
“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.” – Dinesh D’Souza
“Christianity is God’s marriage proposal to the soul.” – Peter Kreeft
“A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.” – Geoffrey B. Wilson
“There is no way you can harmonize Neo-Darwinism and Christianity.” – Lee Strobel
“Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.” – Dinesh D’Souza
“If you lack joy, your Christianity must be leaking somewhere.” – Billy Sunday
“Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.” – Francis Schaeffer
“The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.” – Mark Hopkins
“Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.” – Jerry B. Jenkins
“Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.” – Samuel Wilberforce
“Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.” – William Ralph Inge
“Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.” – Max Lucado
“Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man’s God comes and lives inside of Him!” – Leonard Ravenhill
1 What Is a Worldview? – Greg Enos
2 What Is a Worldview? – Greg Enos
3 All of the following quotes are from the website: Quotes about Christianity (580 quotes) (quotemaster.org)