Building and maintaining a well thought out worldview is critical to how we make sense of things and how we understand reality. Therefore, it is imperative that our worldview is both coherent and consistent.

Yet it is quite common for people to profess a particular worldview while at the same time living in a manner that is fundamentally contrary to that worldview. This is known as cognitive dissonance, where people essentially do not live out or practice what they believe, due to the fact that their actions often contradict their stated beliefs. When this occurs, it should raise a red flag with regard to the veracity and reliability of their particular worldview.

When seeking to establish or embrace a particular worldview, it is common for people to ponder such questions as: Why are we here? What gives meaning and purpose to life?

Certainly, those who hold to philosophical naturalism believe that their life has meaning and purpose. So the question becomes: From where is meaning and purpose derived within the grand scheme of an impersonal and purposeless cosmos?

Therefore, we must consider the following questions: Which worldview makes the most sense of reality? Which worldview makes the most sense regarding man’s nature, taking into account the presence of sin and man’s sense of guilt? Which worldview makes the most sense in light of history? Which worldview is the most coherent and consistent when lived out from its foundational premises? And finally, which worldview offers the most compelling solution and the most satisfying answers to man’s fundamental problem and man’s fundamental need?

As I stated above, if one’s actions, in practice, do not accord with their stated beliefs, it should raise a red flag regarding the veracity and reliability of their worldview. Moreover, since any notion of truth should correspond to objective reality, it’s imperative that we seek to know the truth in order to better understand reality.

Let us consider the Christian worldview. In the beginning, God’s creation and the first human couple who inhabited it were designed for peace. This is because God’s creation was good (Genesis 1:31). However, due to the fall of Adam and Eve, everything fundamentally changed (Genesis 3:14-19, 4:5-12).

Henceforth, every human being (except Jesus) is imputed with Adam’s guilt, inherits Adam’s corrupt sin nature, and then confirms that guilt by committing actual sins. Moreover, our corrupt sin nature affects our whole being, including our intellect, emotions, and will. By extension, it affects our reasoning capabilities, as well as our moral understandings and judgments.

Therefore, in order to change our innate sinful nature, as well as free us from our inherited guilt from Adam, the needed change in us is to be born again (John 3:3) and to be reconciled to God (Romans 5:9-10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-18).

Only Jesus the incarnate Son of God (John 1:14) is able to reconcile us back to the Father (John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5) through His substitutionary death on the cross (2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24). For those who believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, and place their trust in Him, this is good news indeed! (John 3:16; Romans 10:9).

Among the myriad worldviews and religions out there, only Christianity adequately accounts for: 1) the innate presence of sin, and 2) man’s sense of guilt. We are not just sinful, but guilty. Moreover, this sense of guilt is both a feeling and a reality. Apart from Christ, we cannot remove this feeling of guilt, nor can we cleanse ourselves from the reality of our guilt.

This is why the Christian worldview offers the most compelling solution and the most satisfying answers to man’s fundamental problem and man’s fundamental need.