Christian Worldview Universe Next Door – Nihilism

When we think about Christian worldview, we must first define what this word means. The idea of worldview first emerged in German idealism, which from the beginning had a Christian nature. In German, worldview is Weltanschauung, which means a way of seeing or perceiving the world, that is, the way in which human beings see and perceive the world around them.

Albert Wolters defines worldview as “a person’s comprehensive structure of basic beliefs about things”… worldview is a matter of human experience. It is an inescapable component of all human knowledge and, as such, it is non-scientific, or rather (since scientific knowledge is always dependent on intuitive knowledge by nature).

It belongs to a more basic order of cognition than science and theory.” Now consider one of the main worldviews that battles against and tries to undermine the Christian worldview and shapes human thought – Nihilism.

Nihilism says that:

“Once we convince ourselves that we humans are the creators of our own values, we will realize that we are free to choose whatever values we are interested in having.

And these are certainly the values that brought us out of the animal kingdom and created civilization: the elimination of the inferior by the superior in every aspect of life.

The imaginative, the bold, the creative, the fearless, the courageous, the curious and the brave, the natural leaders of all kinds, should be free, untethered from slave moralities – free to live fully and to fulfill themselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche.

[…] The acceptance of these values will bring a double benefit. First, the creative potential of the human race will be given free rein, so that in every area of life the highest attainable goals will be achieved, and civilization will develop at the fastest possible pace – something that is obviously in the interest of humanity as a whole.

Second, the most talented individuals will be able to live full lives, thus experiencing personal happiness rather than frustration – happiness that is understood by Nietzsche primarily as self-fulfillment, and not simply as the enjoyment of transitory pleasures.

Nihilism as a worldview leads its followers down three paths:

1. Death – by suicide;
2. Insanity – for madness;
3. And into the arms of God – for redemption and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
Christianity is the averse of the Nihilistic worldview:
We were made and created by God Eph 2.10;
To glorify Him alone – 1Co 10.31;
To live in fidelity and obedience to Him – Eccl 12.13.