Wednesday Bible Study

Worldview battles in culture do not start with politics or laws. They start with what people believe about God, truth, the human person, and what makes life meaningful. Biology and psychology shape everything that comes next.

Biology in humanism and Marxism

• Both humanism and Marxism depend on a naturalistic story of origins. Human life is explained as the result of evolution, not divine creation. Humanity is treated as a highly evolved form of matter rather than a purposeful creation.
• Science is a good gift, but it has limits. Science can study what is observable and repeatable, but it cannot test the supernatural or repeat a one-time origin event. Because of this, “evolution as unquestionable fact” is often presented as a worldview commitment, not simply a scientific conclusion.
• If humans are the product of purposeless processes, then human life has no built-in meaning or value. This view cannot consistently justify why human dignity matters.

Psychology in humanism and Marxism

• If only matter exists, then humans are only matter. This is the idea behind monism. Thought, love, conscience, and personality are reduced to brain chemistry reacting to stimuli.
• This leads toward behaviorism and determinism. People are treated as shaped and driven by conditioning rather than as moral agents who can truly choose.
• Many humanist psychological assumptions flow from this. Humans are seen as basically good or morally neutral. People are considered perfectible. The main problem is said to be society and its institutions, especially the church, the family, and government. The solution becomes self-discovery and self-fulfillment, often summarized as listening to the heart.

The biblical view of humanity

• God created everything, and God created humanity in His image. Humans are not accidental and they are not evolved into God’s image. Being human is the image. Male and female are created by God as distinct and good.
• Humans are made of both body and soul. Both are real and both matter. People experience real love, grief, and meaning in ways that cannot be reduced to chemistry alone.
• Human brokenness is not mainly the result of society. Society is broken because humans are fallen. Sin entered through a real choice to believe a lie, and the human heart is now deceitful and in need of salvation and transformation.
• Human dignity and purpose are grounded in God’s design. Lasting satisfaction is found in God, not in material things or inner desires.

Main Scriptures referenced

• Genesis 3

• Ecclesiastes 3:11

• Ecclesiastes 12:13

• Romans 1

• Romans 3:23

• Ephesians 2

• Jeremiah 17:9