Session 4
第四讲
The World View of Truth
真理的世界观
Focus Verse
重点经文
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will.
罗马书 12 章 2 节 : 不要效法这个世界，只要心意更新而变化，叫你们查验何为神的善良，纯全，可喜悦的旨意。
Objective
目标
To understand what Christians need to make a definite decision to turn away from believing what the world teaches and choose instead to believe what God says is true.
明白基督徒需要做一个明确的选择，离开世界所教的东西， 转向选择相信神所说的为真。
Focus Truth
重点真理
The world we grew up in influenced us to look at life in a particular way and to see that way as “true”. However, if it doesn’t stack up with that God says is true, we need to reject it and bring our beliefs into line with what really is true.
我们成长的这个世界影响着我们以某一种特别的方式看待生命 , 并以这种方式为真理。 然而，如果这些世界观的总合与神所说的真理不符，我们需要拒绝它， 并使我们的信仰与真正的真理相符。
Welcome
欢迎
If you could go anywhere in the world, where could you choose?
Do you think that the way you look at the world and what you believe would be very different if you had been brought up in a different culture?
如果你可以去到世界上任何地方，你可能选哪里？
你是否认为如果你在一个不同文化里成长，你看世界的方式以及信仰的内容会很不相同？
Worship
崇拜
Suggested theme: God is truth. Psalm 31 1-5; John 4: 23-24; John 14:6-7.
建议的主题： 神即是真理， 见诗篇 31 章 1-5 节；约翰福音 4 章 23-24 节， 14 章 6-7 节
Word
道
We All Have A “World View”
我们都有一个“世界观”
“A set of presuppositions or assumptions which we hold (consciously or subconsciously) about the basis make-up of the world”
James Sire (The Universe Next Door, Downers Grove, III: InterVarsity, 1976, p.17)
Your world view acts like a filter.
“我们（有意识或无意识地）持有的关于世界基本构成的一套预想或假设”
詹姆士。塞尔（邻居的宇宙，宁静的园林 III ： 1976, p7 ）
你的世界观像过滤器一样起作用。
Where Did Your World View Come From?
你的世界观从哪里来
Past Experiences
Culture
过去的经验
文化
Examples of Different Worldviews
不同世界观的例子
1. Animism: A Non-Western Worldview
1 。泛灵论：非西方的世界观
Two sources of spiritual power: “mana”(neutral); good and evil spirits
Need an expert to manipulate spiritual power to your advantage
两种灵魂力量的存在：“吗哪”（中性的）；善灵与恶灵
需要会操纵灵魂力量的专家使它为你所用。
2. The Western Or “Modern” Worldview
2 ． 西方或“现代”的世界观
Spiritual things are irrelevant to daily life.
Reality is defined only by what we can see, touch and measure.
灵魂的东西和日常生活无关。
现实是根据我们能够看见，触摸和测量的东西定义的。
3. The postmodern Worldview
3 ．后现代世界观
“There are many kinds of eyes…, and consequently there are many kinds of ‘truth’, and consequently there is no truth.”
Friedrich Nietzsch ( 1844-1900)
There is no such thing as objective truth
Everyone has their own version of “truth”.
Each person’s “truth” is as valid as everyone else’s.
If you disagree with my “truth” or disapprove of my actions, you are rejecting me.
“有许多不同种类的眼睛。。。，因此也有许多种真理，因此也就没有真理”。
弗里德里希。尼采（ 1844-1900 ）
客观真理并不存在。
每个人都有自己那个版本的“真理”。
每个人的“真理”，其有效性与别人的都是同等的。
如果你不同意我的“真理”，或者不赞同我的行为，你就是拒绝我这个人。
Pause for thought 1
思考问题 1
Are you beginning to see that you have grown up with a particular world view? How different would it be if you had grown up in another part of the world? Is your worldview more or less valid than that of someone who grew up in another part of the world? What measure would you use to judge whether someone’s worldview is accurate?
你有没有看到你是带着某种特别的世界观长大的？ 如果你是在世界的另一个地方长大，会有多少不同？ 你的世界观和在世界其他地方长大的人的世界观有效性更多还是更少？你用什么方法判断一个人的世界观真确与否？
The Biblical Worldview
圣经的世界观
Truth does exist
God is truth
Faith and logic are not incompatible
真理确实存在
神即是真理
信仰和逻辑两者不是不相容的。
What happened when you die?
Hinduism teaches that when a soul dies it is reincarnated in another form.
Christianity teaches that souls spend eternity in either heaven or hell.
Atheists believe that we have no soul and that when we die our existence simply ends.
Postmodernism says that you can make up whatever you want to believe as long as you don’t hurt anyone else.
Logic says that we all have the same experience regardless of what we choose to believe before the actual event.
“In the biblical view, truth is that which is ultimately, finally and absolutely real, or ‘the way it is’, and therefore is utterly trustworthy and dependable, being grounded and anchored in God’s own reality and truthfulness.”
Os Guiness (Time For Truth, Baker Books, 2000, p.78)
当你死亡之时发生什么？
印度教教导说灵魂死亡时会以另外一种方式转世重生。
基督教教导说灵魂或者在天堂或者在地狱永生。
无神论相信我们没有灵魂，当我们死亡时我们的存在即终止。
后现代主义说你可以想象任何你愿意相信的事情，只要你不伤害别人。
逻辑说不管我们在那件事真的发生之前选择相信什么，我们都会有相同的经历。
“以圣经的观点， 真理就是最终，最后和绝对真实的东西， 或者就是‘本相’， 因此也是完全值得信任和依赖的， 因为那是以神自己的现实和真实为基础，为依托的”。
奥斯。吉尼斯（真理的时代， 贝克书局， 2000 ， p78 ） .
Pause For Thought 2
思考问题２
When we stick up for truth, how can we do so without coming across as arrogant? If we disagree with someone’s beliefs or actions, does it mean that we are at the same time rejecting them as persons?
当我们坚持真理时，如何能够不让人感觉傲慢？ 如果我们不同意某人的信仰或行为，是否意味着我们同时也拒绝他们个人？
Be aware of Mix ’n’ Match
意识到混合的思想与行为 ]
We say we believe the Bible, but are many of our decisions made on the basis of what we can afford rather than on what God is saying?
We say we believe in the power of prayer, but does the way we spend our time bear this out?
我们说我们相信圣经， 但我们很多决定是根据我们的承受力决定的，还是根据神的话决定的？
我们说我们相信祷告的力量， 但我们所花费的时间能证明这一点么？
Which of these describes why you are a Christian?
I believe because Christianity seems to work.
What I have experienced leads me to feel that Christianity is true
I believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to God for all people everywhere at all times.
I have simply made a decision that Christianity is true for me.
“The Christian faith is not true because it works; it works because it is true… It is not simply ‘true for us’; it is true for any who seek in order to find, because truth is true even if nobody believes it and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it.”( Os Guinness, Time For Truth, Baker Books, 2000, pp.79-80)
下面哪一点描述了你成为基督徒的原因？
我相信因为基督教似乎有功效。
我的经历让我感觉基督信仰是真实的。
我相信耶稣基督是所有人在任何时间通向神的唯一道路。
我只是做了一个决定， 认为基督信仰对我来说是真理。
“基督信仰不是因为有效才是真理，它有效是因为它是真理。。。 它不仅仅‘对我们是真理’， 它对任何寻求它的人都是真理，因为真理即使没人相信也还是真理， 而谬误即使每个人都信仍是谬误”（奥斯。吉尼斯， 真理的时代， 贝克书局， 2000 ， 79-80 页）。
“Don’t Let The World Squeeze You into its Mould”
不要让世界把你挤压成它的模式
Christian faith is “choosing to believe what God say is true” because we have made a decision that the biblical worldview is how things really are.
Repentance literally means a change of mind. When we repent we make a radical decision to renounce the lies of this world and choose “the way, the truth and the life”. For a Christian to do less is to be “ a double-minded man, unstable in all he does” (James 1:8).
基督信仰是“选择相信神所说的为真理 ” 因为我们已经做了一个决定， 圣经的世界观就是事物本来的真相。
忏悔字面上的含义是改变心意。 当我们忏悔时，我们做了根本性的决定放弃这个世界的谎言选择“道路，真理和生命”。基督徒如果做得少于这些就是“心怀二意的人，在他一切所行的路上都没有定见”（雅各书 1 章 8 节）。
Witness
见证
How will understanding that we all grow up with a particular way of looking at the world help you as you talk to people who are not yet Christians? What will you say to those with a postmodern worldview who regard strong beliefs as a negative thing?
理解我们都是在某种看世界的具体方式中长大这个事实如何能够帮助你和非基督徒的谈话？ 对于那些认为强烈的信仰为不利的持后现代世界观的人，你能说些什么？
Questions for Groups
给各组的问题
1. Are you beginning to see that you have grown up with a particular world view? Which of the three views we looked at best corresponds to the one you grew up with?
2. How different would it be if you had grown up in another part of the world?
3. Is your worldview more or less valid than that of someone who grew up in another part of the world?
4. What measure would you use to judge whether someone’s worldview is true?
5. When we stick up for what we believe to be the truth, how can we do so without coming across as arrogant?
6. If we disagree with someone’s beliefs or actions, does it mean that we are at the same time rejecting then as a person?
１． 你是否已经开始理解， 你是在某种具体的世界观中长大的？ 我们谈到过的三种世界观中的哪一种最类似于你成长的环境？
２． 如果你在世界的另一地方长大，情况会有多少不同？
３． 你的世界观比起在世界另一地的人来说有更多还是更少的效果？
４． 你用什么办法来判断某人的世界观是否为真理？
５． 当我们坚持我们信为真理的东西，如何能使人不认为我们骄傲？
6 。 如果我们不赞同某人的信仰或行为，是否意味着我们同时也拒绝了这个人本身？
To take away
带回家的问题
Suggestions For Your Quiet Times This Week:
建议你在本周安静的时间作以下事情：
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth and to reveal to your mind the lies you have believed as a result of having been brought up with a non-biblical worldview.
请求圣灵带领你进入真理并向你的头脑揭示，你成长环境中你已经信以为真的非圣经世界观中哪些部分是谎言。
Big Questions (to consider before the next session):
思考问题（下一课之前思考：
If we share God’s nature and we are saints, why do you think it is that we still feel such a pull to ways of thinking and behaving that go against God’s best?
如果我们享有神的本性并且我们是圣人， 你认为为何事实是我们仍然感觉到这样大的拉力让我们的思想和行为与上帝最喜悦的相反？
诗歌欣赏：主爱有多少
主爱有多少？主恩有多深？
他甘愿舍命，为救人灵魂；
主爱有多少？主恩有多深？
每当我思想，我心感恩。
天地有多么高，兩极有么多远，
救主的慈爱，也有多大！
永恒有多么長，无限有多么广，
救主的恩典，也有多深。
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