Last night I watched lesson one from The Truth Project for the second time. The youth group at MiddleCross is starting it up and I pretty much jumped at the chance to participate. There were only a couple of kids there but hopefully more will start coming. There was some conversation at the end and it seemed that they learned something about the reality of God's truth.

The first lesson is all about what truth is and Dr. Tackett asks an important question at the end of the lesson. That question is, "Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?". While this question has a simple "yes/no" answer, I think it is a very profound question. It really gets you thinking about how you look at the world and what you believe about it. Pretty much the whole point of The Truth Project is to present a comprehensive Christian worldview. An "official" definition worldview is: The comprehensive framework of one's basic beliefs about things and their relationships.


A worldview really has to answer 4 basic questions which are:

• Who am I? - what is the nature, task and significance of human beings?

• Where am I? - what is the origin and nature of the reality in which human beings find themselves?

• What's wrong? - how can we account for the distortion and brokenness in this reality?

• What's the remedy? - how can we alleviate this brokenness, if at all?

I think that almost every person in this world has answered these questions, in their own mind at the very least, at some point in their lives. Most people have probably had different answers to these questions at different points in their lives. The answers a person gives to these questions will determine how he or she lives.

I think that, besides the belief question above, these are the most important questions that one can ever ask themselves. If you have never thought through these things I urge you to really examine how you would answer these. It is also important to remember that not all worldviews are true. Just like religions they all can be false but only one can be true.

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Why is abortion wrong?

God is the one who sets up the parameters for us to take life. We are allowed to take life under the prescribed requirements of law such as self defense, war, execution, etc. The baby in the womb is executed but has broken no law! Babies have been brought into existence through the act of their parents and have done absolutely nothing wrong. Yet, they are executed. What crime has been committed? What law have a broken in their existence?

The only comparison I can draw to answer the questions would be from Nazi Germany. The Jews were guilty of being Jews, and were, therefore, worthy of death. Likewise, the babies in the womb are guilty of being babies in the womb, and are, therefore, worthy of death.

What laws did they break? What made them unworthy of life? The answer is simple: It depends on the opinion of those in power, of those wielding the knife.

It is only in abortion where someone is executed, and yet that person has violated no law. This is fundamentally wrong and this is why abortion is wrong.

Since when do we kill someone who's broken no law?
Since when do we kill someone who's only "crime" was to be brought into existence via the copulation of his parents?


(The above was written by Matt Slick on the CARM discussion boards)

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