The Biblical Worldview: The True Meaning Of Life

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Everybody has their own philosophy to life which is based on their worldview. A worldview is a conceptual scheme or intellectual framework by which a person organizes and interprets their experiences (Cowan & Spiegel 2009, p. 7). The biblical worldview answers the true meaning of life. Timothy Keller states the biblical worldview as being the creation, fall, redemption and restoration (2012, p.161). The creation refers when God created the earth and the heavens and everything was good. Fall represents when sin entered and corrupted everything in the same amount of evilness. In the Second Coming everything will be restored to how things were meant to be before the fall.
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