The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith

by Jeffrey D. Johnson

In addition to the Imago Dei stamping, reproducing, and duplicating within us the knowledge of God, when it is renewed in Christ and functioning properly, it equips us with the necessary properties to experientially know God.

God made us in His own image because He made us to be rational and morally upright (Ecc. 7:29).

being created in God’s likeness makes it possible for us to live in a mutually loving relationship with our Creator.[

Guilt testifies of the fact that our relationship with the Creator is broken.

Ceasing to acknowledge God is the first step towards practical atheism.

In order to justify our irrational behavior, we devise contradictory and unreasonable systems of thought that eliminate God from the equation.

The postmodern thinker may attempt to live without any absolutes, but everywhere he turns he crashes into an unmovable logical fence that binds him.

Because sin damaged men would rather accept a lie than submit to the truth, they stand in front of a mirror scratching, picking, and clawing at their faces in order to remove the image of God that is staring back at them. They are eager to erect a god fashioned in their own human likeness rather than to submit to the God who made them in His own divine likeness. They would rather worship an illogical idol in order to obtain intellectual independence than submit to the God of all wisdom. In so doing, they are willing to sell their souls for a bowl of soup.

Because of our fallen nature, however, these glasses have fallen into bushes full of thistles and thorns. What was once perfectly transparent has been deeply scratched. Our vision is now blurry.

How does logic prove itself to be true? Because without it, we cannot know anything. How does morality prove itself to be innate within us all? Because we get mad when others wrong us and hate movies that end badly – with the good guys not properly vindicated. How do we know God? Because without a knowledge of God, nothing makes sense.

A worldview is a set of correlating presuppositions that are not derived by sense experiences but are necessary to interpret sense experiences.

What we love the most, which has to do with our ethical values, has more to do with our worldview than with the answers we will give to strange philosophical questions.

We all have presuppositions. Also, we cannot help but compare and contrast what we are learning with what we are convinced that we already know.

the law of non-contradiction cannot be proven by logic or science, but both logic and science are built on its foundation.

Though he doubted the existence of everything, he could not doubt that he doubted. Because doubting was the one thing he was certain of, he concluded that by doubting/thinking, he must exist as a self-conscious being. Thus, he is known for the phrase “I think, therefore I am.”[8.9]

Man’s likeness to God is a demand to be like God;