Like a flower, which draws its
existence and life sustaining energy from the nutritious soil in which it is
planted, I believe that any value, principle or ideal has its root in, and
draws life from, a particular worldview. I mean to say that the soil of a worldview
is what holds and sustains any value that a person may posses. Worldviews ought
to be exposed and tested, we should evaluate the presuppositions that produce
and sustain our values. What follows is a reflection on a worldview, a
particular set of core truths that, as I understand them, produce the many
principles that flow through history. I don’t mean to eisegetically impose my
worldview on to or into the examined texts, but to speculate on the ribbon that
I believe runs through history and which, even in the midst of varying and
sometimes exclusive worldviews, holds and nourishes what principles I consider
to be valuable. I am someone who believes in the necessary and objective existence
of an infinite, singular, personal and creating God and who furthermore
believes that humanity is made in the image of that God and has received the
words of God that they may know how to live obediently to the laws of God; laws
which are his by right of his sovereign kingship. This has massive implications
on what is valuable and virtuous, and how those values and virtues are
mediated. I value deeply such principles and ideals as honor, propriety, piety,
honesty, love, infinity and creativity, particularly because I believe they are
aspects of God’s attributes, that are necessarily pleasing to him and are given
to us as part of the imago dei.
