The New World View

Let me start with a selection from A Christian Manifesto, written by Francis A. Schaeffer,

We must understand that the question of the dignity of human life is not something on the periphery of Judeo-Christian thinking, but almost in the centre of it (though now the center because  the center is the existence of God Himself). But the dignity of the human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically orientated law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way that it is being taken.

Take into consideration this sermon clip of Pastor John MacArthur.



Let's continue from the book A Christian Manifesto,

A girl who has been working with the Somalian refugees has just been in our home and told us their story and shown us their pictures. One million—and especially little children—in agony, pain, and suffering! Can we help but cry? But forget it! In the United States we now kill by painful methods one and a half times that many each year by abortion. In Somalia it is war. But we kill in cold blood. The compassion our country has been known somewhat for is being killed; it is humanness which the humanist world view is beating to death.

The people of the Unites States have lived under the Judeo-Christian consensus for so long that now we take it for granted. We seem to forget how completely unique what we have had is a result of the gospel. The gospel indeed is, "accept Christ, the Messiah, as Savior and have your guilt removed on the basis of His death." But the good news includes many resulting blessings. We have forgotten why we have a high view of life, and why we have a positive balance between form and freedom in government, and the fact that we have such tremendous freedoms without these freedoms leading in chaos. Most of all, we have forgotten that none of these is natural in the world. They are unique, based on the fact that the consensus was the biblical consensus. And these things will be even further lost if this other total view, the materialistic view, takes over more thoroughly. We can be certain that what we so carelessly take for granted will be lost.