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Toward Toward a a Christian Christian Worldview
Worldview
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Foreword
An ancient Greek myth tells the story of King Sisyphus.
The king was sentenced by “the gods” to roll a stone up a hill
forever. Each time he got near the top of the hill, the stone
rolled back down to the bottom and he was required to start
over again rolling the stone back to the top of the hill. No matter
how long or how hard he worked at the project, he was
doomed to failure.
Albert Camus, the French existentialist, claimed that all of
life is just like that: futile and pointless. We work and think that
we have goals, but we are doomed to lives of futility. About one
hundred twenty-five years before Camus, the American Henry
David Thoreau said that most men live lives of quiet desperation.
Even William Shakespeare, in the sixteenth and early seventeenth
century, claimed that life was a “tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Is there a Christian response to this pessimistic world view?
Can the Christian supply a positive answer to those who seek
purpose and meaning in life? The answer should be a wholehearted
“yes!” But, sadly, many Christians act and think as
though life were governed by chance or luck rather than by the
sovereign Creator-God of the universe. It is not simply that we
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