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In analyzing a biblical worldview, which distinctive would be most compelling to your non-Christian friends? Why?
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Yahweh created mankind and He said that He loved us. He gave His only begotten Son up to be crucified so that we could have life and have it abundantly (John 11: 17-26); (John 10:10). If I was a non-Christian person this would certainly interest me.
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The most compelling distinctive would be that our sin can be forgiven and that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus and not by our own efforts or works and we can have an intimate relationship with Him.
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Of the distinctives given in the lesson, I find The Bible and Reality to be the most compelling. My job is to reach unbelievers through science as a missionary science teacher. We look at the order and beauty of universe and extract how it reveals God. I would say that the more science reveals, the more we understand that there must be a Creator – as most of the top biochemists and physicists would attest. Things like the fact that science has revealed there was, in fact, a beginning of the universe, the fact that evolution cannot account for the origin of life, the precision of living cells is too complext that it couldn’t have formed bit-by-bit because it would have worked against itself if it had, life has appeared throughout the fossil record without transitions, the laws of thermodynamics testify that the universe (and especially one that can support life) is beyond improbable and even mathmatically impossible. Then there are things that happen in our lives that just defy explanation. Other missionaries and believers where I live are able to show example after example of things that are impossible, but for the help of God. Just as Paul writes in Romans, God’s eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen so that people have no excuse but to see Him.
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I believe the most compelling distinctive to non-Christian friends would be the biblical foundation for ethics. They would, as Gentiles, readily see that even they see some things as right and some things as wrong by their very nature
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In a time where there has been a wave of identity struggles, I think Christianity has great clarity on that subject. There is no need to search for who you are. We are made in God’s image, male and female. We are made to have a relationship with him and to glorify him.