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Which distinctive of a biblical worldview would be least compelling to your non-Christian friends? How might you answer objections on this matter?
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The reality that God has chosen who will be saved is not popular to most of the non-Christian (and even Christian) friends. Paul can’t be much more clear than he is in Romans 9, that not all will be saved. A low view of God and a high view of man leaves many wanting a god created in their image, instead of us created in His.
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Define revelation. That people wrote the Bible on that merit. God has revealed himself to everyone through creation.
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My non-Christian friends would have the greatest difficulty with the existence of a Creator, God. This objection might be answered by reasoning the complexity of creation as coming into existence by chance.
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The distinctive least compelling to non-Christian friends seems to be that the Bible is God’s written word to man.
The answers to their objections lie in being able to demonstrate to them that God was intimately involved in the writing and preservation of Scripture. Holy Spirit moved upon men to write and also preserve his Word through the centuries.
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Apart from the work of the Holy Spirt — the warped views of a fallen world with non-stop conditioning from multiple sources all under the sway of the ruler of this world — it’s all objectionable to an unbeliever. So, I answer, daily, by leading with love in ongoing right relationships, living out my faith, and countering all misguided and objectionable notions in an interpersonal, non-toxic, real world, extra-biblical, living faith manner. Then, when asked, I explain my Christ-centered world view, what it is, why I believe, what I know, and most importantly — what I have experienced — and that I am compelled by grace through faith, yet with sound evidence and transformative personal experience.