Session 4
第四講
The World View of Truth
真理的世界觀
Focus Verse
重點經文
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.
羅馬書 12 章 2 節 : 不要效法這個世界，隻要心意更新而變化，叫你們查驗何為神的善良，純全，可喜悅的旨意。
Objective
目標
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個明確的選擇，離開世界所教的東西， 轉向選擇相信神所說的為真。
Focus Truth
重點真理
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.
我們成長的這個世界影響著我們以某一種特別的方式看待生命 , 並以這種方式為真理。 然而，如果這些世界觀的總合與神所說的真理不符，我們需要拒絕它， 並使我們的信仰與真正的真理相符。
Welcome
歡迎
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，你可能選哪裏？
你是否認為如果你在一個不同文化裏成長，你看世界的方式以及信仰的內容會很不相同？
Worship
崇拜
Suggested theme: God is truth. Psalm 31 1-5; John 4: 23-24; John 14:6-7.
建議的主題： 神即是真理， 見詩篇 31 章 1-5 節；約翰福音 4 章 23-24 節， 14 章 6-7 節
Word
道
We All Have A “World View”
我們都有一個“世界觀”
“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.
“我們（有意識或無意識地）持有的關於世界基本構成的一套預想或假設”
詹姆士。塞爾（鄰居的宇宙，寧靜的園林 III ： 1976, p7 ）
你的世界觀像過濾器一樣起作用。
Where Did Your World View Come From?
你的世界觀從哪裏來
Past Experiences
Culture
過去的經驗
文化
Examples of Different Worldviews
不同世界觀的例子
1. Animism: A Non-Western Worldview
1 。泛靈論：非西方的世界觀
Two sources of spiritual power: “mana”(neutral); good and evil spirits
Need an expert to manipulate spiritual power to your advantage
兩種靈魂力量的存在：“嗎哪”（中性的）；善靈與惡靈
需要會操縱靈魂力量的專家使它為你所用。
2. The Western Or “Modern” Worldview
2 ． 西方或“現代”的世界觀
Spiritual things are irrelevant to daily life.
Reality is defined only by what we can see, touch and measure.
靈魂的東西和日常生活無關。
現實是根據我們能夠看見，觸摸和測量的東西定義的。
3. The postmodern Worldview
3 ．後現代世界觀
“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.
“有許多不同種類的眼睛。。。，因此也有許多種真理，因此也就沒有真理”。
弗裏德裏希。尼采（ 1844-1900 ）
客觀真理並不存在。
每個人都有自己那個版本的“真理”。
每個人的“真理”，其有效性與別人的都是同等的。
如果你不同意我的“真理”，或者不讚同我的行為，你就是拒絕我這個人。
Pause for thought 1
思考問題 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?
你有沒有看到你是帶著某種特別的世界觀長大的？ 如果你是在世界的另一個地方長大，會有多少不同？ 你的世界觀和在世界其他地方長大的人的世界觀有效性更多還是更少？你用什麽方法判斷一個人的世界觀真確與否？
The Biblical Worldview
聖經的世界觀
Truth does exist
God is truth
Faith and logic are not incompatible
真理確實存在
神即是真理
信仰和邏輯兩者不是不相容的。
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)
當你死亡之時發生什麽？
印度教教導說靈魂死亡時會以另外一種方式轉世重生。
基督教教導說靈魂或者在天堂或者在地獄永生。
無神論相信我們沒有靈魂，當我們死亡時我們的存在即終止。
後現代主義說你可以想象任何你願意相信的事情，隻要你不傷害別人。
邏輯說不管我們在那件事真的發生之前選擇相信什麽，我們都會有相同的經曆。
“以聖經的觀點， 真理就是最終，最後和絕對真實的東西， 或者就是‘本相’， 因此也是完全值得信任和依賴的， 因為那是以神自己的現實和真實為基礎，為依托的”。
奧斯。吉尼斯（真理的時代， 貝克書局， 2000 ， p78 ） .
Pause For Thought 2
思考問題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?
當我們堅持真理時，如何能夠不讓人感覺傲慢？ 如果我們不同意某人的信仰或行為，是否意味著我們同時也拒絕他們個人？
Be aware of Mix ’n’ Match
意識到混合的思想與行為 ]
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?
我們說我們相信聖經， 但我們很多決定是根據我們的承受力決定的，還是根據神的話決定的？
我們說我們相信禱告的力量， 但我們所花費的時間能證明這一點麽？
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)
下麵哪一點描述了你成為基督徒的原因？
我相信因為基督教似乎有功效。
我的經曆讓我感覺基督信仰是真實的。
我相信耶穌基督是所有人在任何時間通向神的唯一道路。
我隻是做了一個決定， 認為基督信仰對我來說是真理。
“基督信仰不是因為有效才是真理，它有效是因為它是真理。。。 它不僅僅‘對我們是真理’， 它對任何尋求它的人都是真理，因為真理即使沒人相信也還是真理， 而謬誤即使每個人都信仍是謬誤”（奧斯。吉尼斯， 真理的時代， 貝克書局， 2000 ， 79-80 頁）。
“Don’t Let The World Squeeze You into its Mould”
不要讓世界把你擠壓成它的模式
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“選擇相信神所說的為真理 ” 因為我們已經做了一個決定， 聖經的世界觀就是事物本來的真相。
懺悔字麵上的含義是改變心意。 當我們懺悔時，我們做了根本性的決定放棄這個世界的謊言選擇“道路，真理和生命”。基督徒如果做得少於這些就是“心懷二意的人，在他一切所行的路上都沒有定見”（雅各書 1 章 8 節）。
Witness
見證
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?
理解我們都是在某種看世界的具體方式中長大這個事實如何能夠幫助你和非基督徒的談話？ 對於那些認為強烈的信仰為不利的持後現代世界觀的人，你能說些什麽？
Questions for Groups
給各組的問題
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． 你是否已經開始理解， 你是在某種具體的世界觀中長大的？ 我們談到過的三種世界觀中的哪一種最類似於你成長的環境？
２． 如果你在世界的另一地方長大，情況會有多少不同？
３． 你的世界觀比起在世界另一地的人來說有更多還是更少的效果？
４． 你用什麽辦法來判斷某人的世界觀是否為真理？
５． 當我們堅持我們信為真理的東西，如何能使人不認為我們驕傲？
6 。 如果我們不讚同某人的信仰或行為，是否意味著我們同時也拒絕了這個人本身？
To take away
帶回家的問題
Suggestions For Your Quiet Times This Week:
建議你在本周安靜的時間作以下事情：
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.
請求聖靈帶領你進入真理並向你的頭腦揭示，你成長環境中你已經信以為真的非聖經世界觀中哪些部分是謊言。
Big Questions (to consider before the next session):
思考問題（下一課之前思考：
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?
如果我們享有神的本性並且我們是聖人， 你認為為何事實是我們仍然感覺到這樣大的拉力讓我們的思想和行為與上帝最喜悅的相反？
詩歌欣賞：主愛有多少
主愛有多少？主恩有多深？
他甘願舍命，為救人靈魂；
主愛有多少？主恩有多深？
每當我思想，我心感恩。
天地有多麽高，兩極有麽多遠，
救主的慈愛，也有多大！
永恒有多麽長，無限有多麽廣，
救主的恩典，也有多深。
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