{"id":3511,"date":"2013-12-08T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-12-08T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:07:07","slug":"whats-your-weltanschauung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your Weltanschauung?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably no more fundamental aspect of a person&#8217;s life, outlook, and opinion base than his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worldview\">weltanschauung<\/a> &#8211; his worldview.<\/p>\n<p>For the Christian, it is vital that your worldview be based on &#8211; indeed spring from &#8211; the Bible. If your view of the world &#8211; your opinion-former, your interpretive framework for reality &#8211; is not informed by, founded upon, and focused around the Bible, you will rapidly be lost in this world. God gave us the instruction manual for life &#8211; it is to our personal detriment if we ignore what He has told us about life.<\/p>\n<p>{{Charles Coulson}}&#8217;s excellent book {{How Now Shall We Live}} (coauthored with {{Nancy Pearcy}}) was the first place I ran across the\u00a0term <em>worldview<\/em>. But it is a term whose time is NOW for its applicability.<\/p>\n<p>I plead with everyone to <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/how-to-study-the-bible\">study<\/a> the Bible &#8211; go deep, go long, and drink it all in. Read multiple <strong>good<\/strong> versions. Compare your translations. Dive into the original text with tools like {{Vine&#8217;s Expository Dictionary}} and {{Strong&#8217;s Exhaustive Concordance}}. Learn everything you can. Let the Word infuse your life and focus your thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The good news of the gospel gives peace &#8211; not a trite, fleeting peace, but true, lasting peace: it is the\u00a0<strong>only<\/strong> way to know God, and only by knowing Him can you have eternal security.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; what&#8217;s your Weltanschauung?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably no more fundamental aspect of a person&#8217;s life, outlook, and opinion base than his weltanschauung &#8211; his worldview. For the Christian, it is vital that your worldview be based on &#8211; indeed spring from &#8211; the Bible. If your view of the world &#8211; your opinion-former, your interpretive framework for reality &#8211; &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3511\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s your Weltanschauung?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[880],"tags":[858],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanderings","tag-worldview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}