CONFLICTING WORLDVIEWS
We have followedthe unfolding of opposing worldviews. One seeks to influence the other to theglory of God; the other seeks to destroy the glory of God. Mohler warns,
Christians mustrealise that the more enduring contest is not between rival candidates butbetween rival worldviews. A clash of worldviews reveals all the fault lines ofa society, from education and economics, to arts and entertainment. Eventually,everything is at stake. Over time, every culture conforms in general terms toone worldview, not to more than one.
This conflict started after Adam’sfall in paradise. Abel brought an acceptable offering to the Lord; Cain’soffering was not acceptable. In fury, Cain murdered his brother. Cain’sdescendants set up a kingdom to oppose God’s promise to Adam to provide someonewho will crush the head of the serpent. The influence of Cain’s people led to uttercorruption and the destruction of the world in God’s judgment through theflood.
God made acovenant with Noah, rescued him and his family and renewed the covenant promiseHe had made with Adam. Noah was a righteous man who walked with God. Throughhis family the world became populated again, and from his loins the Christwould come as the Victor over all adversity.
Some hundreds ofyears later, God made a covenant with Abraham. In his Seed the world wasblessed because He “disarmed principalities and powers, He made a publicspectacle of them, triumphing over them in it” (Col. 2:15). His victory overall powers was comprehensive and all-inclusive.
God’s covenantwith Adam ran through Noah to Abraham and his descendants and determined thatthey live as God’s own people in His kingdom which they share with the godlessand unrighteous.The sharedcultural activities between Christians (the ‘Church’) and non-Chris tians (the‘world’) are not always amiable. Culture-sharing has limits. As we have notedearlier in this book, Lamech’s cultural achievements became a lure for thedescendants of Seth, and the sons of the ‘gods’ married the daughters of Seth’sline’. In the end, every inclination of man’s heart became evil (Gen. 6:1-5;see also Continued Regression in Chapter Three above). From the very beginningthe prince of this world intruded into God’s redemptive kingdom with thepurpose of usurping His glory. Pgs. 292-3.
Go to online Amazon (in whichever country you live) for your copy: https://amzn.asia/d/1RL6Pu5
R. AlbertMohler Jr., The Gathering Storm, Secularism, Culture, and the Church (NelsonBooks, Nashville, Tennessee, 2020 190.
