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This diagram helps to further illustrate the consequences of building your thinking on the Word of God or on man's fallible opinions. This illustrates the difference between believing that life came about as the Bible describes or it arose by natural processes without any supernatural involvement.

On the left-hand side, the block diagrams show that when you build your thinking on the Bible as real history, then there is a foundation for insisting on absolutes in morality. We know what is right and what is wrong (and what is good and what is bad) because the God who created us, and owns us, is the absolute authority and has a right to set the rules.

For example, we know that marriage is to be one man for one woman for life because the Bible's history is true concerning the creation of the first marriage, Adam and Eve. God made a man and a woman in history, not a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

Also, because of man's sin, God clothed Adam and Eve. Hence, there is a moral basis for clothing-thus there are standards.

The rightful place for sex is within marriage, one man for one woman. This is only true if the Bible's history concerning the Creation and thus the meaning of marriage is true.

There is purpose and meaning in life because there is a Creator who created us with purpose. Because humans are made in the image of God, they have a soul that will live forever. When the physical body dies, this is not the end, but the beginning of eternity, either with God or separated from God. Only those who have trusted in Christ as Savior and are born again as the Bible defines can spend eternity with God. The diagram on the left represents a Christian worldview that has a foundation in real history—the history as written in Genesis 1–11.

On the right, the block diagram represents a different worldview that is founded in a different view of history. If you believe that life is a result of natural processes, and that there is no God who is the absolute authority, then a totally different worldview arises out of this foundation. All morality becomes relative. Therefore, right and wrong is what each individual decides for himself-if they can get away with it in the society in which they live.

Marriage could be a man and a man, a woman and a woman, or any combination one determines if, again, it fits with the norms of the culture at any particular time. Of course, in such a system, these norms can change and ultimately 'anything goes' depending on those who control the culture. Thus rules in regard to sex are also relative and dependent on what is decided by individuals within the culture.

Because humans are considered to be animals that have arisen by natural processes, then what develops in a woman's womb is also an animal. Therefore aborting a baby would be no different than killing an animal. Ultimately, in this system, there is no purpose and meaning in life except for what you want to make of it while you are alive. Ultimately, death is the end of a person's consciousness, and hence there is no future existence for that person.

These two block diagrams contrast two totally different worldviews based upon two different foundations of history—one that is revealed by God through His Word or another in which man's views are based upon naturalism.

It should be noted that if Christians try to impose Christian morality on their children or anyone else in their culture without the foundation of history from the Bible (beginning in Genesis), then that structure will not stand. Sadly, many Christians have tried to impose the Christian worldview on the coming generation, but have allowed them to believe a foundation based in evolution. Ultimately, the Christian worldview would collapse and be replaced by the secular/evolutionary one.