What is a biblical worldview of God? You cannot have a good biblical worldview if you do not have a good understanding of what Scripture says about who God is.
We are looking at Romans 1:18 that says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” Then he goes on to say this, “because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” We look at these verses here and we looked at them before. This is God revealing Himself in nature and certain things we can know about God even beyond the Scriptures. You do not have to have the Scriptures to know some of these things He says. So, to begin with, you know that there is a God, and God has revealed Himself in certain ways even through natural revelation of our conscience and nature around us. It says, “His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen in these ways.” So, God exists, and Scripture says you don’t even need to believe in the Bible to know that He exists.
Now, if you wanted to get rid of the idea that God existed, so therefore having an unbiblical worldview, what would you do? Historically in the Western world, including America, most people have had a belief in the God of Scripture. It doesn’t mean they were Christians, so I wouldn’t proclaim that America was ever a Christian nation, but it did have a biblical worldview founded on those many years of going back into the Scriptures and the foundation being laid. So, if you wanted to get rid of that kind of attitude, view, and idea that God truly exists and is needed, what would you do? Ideologically, you would come up with alternative ideas.
Here are four different ideologies that try to undermine the view of God in Scripture:
1. Enlightenment. Late 1600-1700s. Replaced God with reason and science. This is the ideology that you don’t need God, instead you can think it through. You can logically think it through. You can do scientific experiments and God is unnecessary.
2. Karl Marx Manifesto. 1848. Marx denied God totally because man would be the center of the universe. He believed that man, not God, is the supreme being, therefore we dismiss God and then man can figure it out. Of course, the enlightenment was part of this teaching as well. It thought that if man is smart enough to have reason as a center of their thinking and logic and so forth, and man doesn’t need God, then man is at the center of the universe.
3. Charles Darwin Origins of Species. 1859. This would be the beginning of the popularization of evolution theory. Darwin got rid of God by saying we don’t need a creator. Yes, in the Scriptures they looked up in the heavens and saw the mighty power of God and the divine nature of God, but Darwin looked at nature and didn’t see God. Instead, banking off Karl Marx to a large degree, what he saw was not God, but evolution. He believed that by random chance and so forth that the survival of the fittest worked things out so that we are where we are at today in evolution. God is not needed. A creator is not needed. Evolution filled in that gap.
4. Sigmund Freud - views of Psychoanalysis. End of 1800s. Freud replaced the biblical worldview of humanity – what mankind was really like, in other words their inward nature – with a whole different system of the id, the ego, and the superego . . .
