“The deity of Christ and Trinity are not up for discussion; certain details in eschatology should be. What’s the difference? We can only be as assertive as we have data to back it. Ask yourself how well you can support your conclusion with actual biblical information. An abundance of evidence leads to strong conclusions; weaker or conflicting evidence encourages us to wait and see.”
(Joel Arnold – Rooted Thinking) One of the hazards of intellectual Christian discourse is to anoint ourselves as the amateur evaluators of “the Christian viewpoint” on everything—science, economics, geopolitics, how governments ought to be run, aesthetics, agriculture and whatever other fields of human discourse arise.
This might start innocently enough with the desire to form a biblical worldview, applying broad biblical concepts to every part of life and every human discipline. Does God care about what we think about art or history or economics? If he cares about what we eat or drink (1 Cor. 10:31), it seems that he would. And so we embark on learning to think Christianly—learning and reflecting in ways informed by a Christian framework.
But like any concept or category, “Christian worldview” has morphed, been co-opted, distorted and abused. And among those abuses is the presumption that we can identify a single Christian viewpoint on complex topics. What is the Christian view on inflation? On World War 1? On the current political situation in Argentina? Can we distill a single biblical worldview position on every issue that every Christian ought to agree with? Consider a number of thoughts:
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