Page 11 - Through New Eyes

Introduction 3
Finally and in summary, twentieth-century Christians are
used to discussing worldview questions in the language of phi-
losophy, while the Bible sets forth its worldview very often in
the language of visual imagery (symbolism) and repeated pat-
terns (typology).
We should not be surprised if men do not view God’s world
rightly. Remans 1:20 tells us that “since the creation of the world
[God’s] invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine
nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what
has been made.” This means that all men are confronted con-
stantly with God’s true worldview, because they “clearly see” the
true nature of things, including the nature of God Himself. Yet,
as Remans 1:18 says, men “suppress the truth in unrighteous-
ness.” That is, they refuse to see the world rightly.
It is possible to suppress the truth by means of a direct con-
tradiction, but that is hard to do. If we contradict the whole world,
we shall have to commit suicide, which indeed is the way out for
some people. It is more common, however, for men to take part
of the truth and abuse it in order to negate the rest of the truth.
Men take a small part of the truth, and then pretend that this
fragment is the whole truth. That way they can “suppress” the
true world picture, the true basic interpretation of reality.
For instance, modern man takes part of the truth about the
arrangement of the universe — that it is peppered with various
kinds of suns called stars, arranged into galaxies, etc. – and uses
this truth to suppress the more important truth that the heavens
declare God’s glory, and that the heavenly bodies were made for
“signs and seasons.” To take one more example, modern man
notices that animals resemble each other and human beings.
The Bible says that these resemblances are by creation design, so
that men can learn about themselves by studying animals.
Modern man takes this truth and perverts it into the error of
evolution, the belief that men are genetically related to animals.
The relationship between modern science and the Bible has
been well described by Vincent Rossi. He writes,

Living symbolism [by which he means a Biblical view of the world]
does not deny science as a mode of knowing about our world,
but serves to place scientific fact and methods of proof in a