What is Naturalism?
The worldview of naturalism is excellently summarized by the Bible in the first sentence of Psalms 14: “The fool says in his heart ‘there is no God.” People who hold a naturalistic worldview believe that there is nothing else outside or beyond nature. In their view, reality is spatially contained in nature; there is no external agency in the form of a supernatural God. Those who accept the worldview of naturalism believe that only nature and human beings interact to produce all reality there is …

What is a worldview
A worldview is a picture of reality that completely unifies a person’s understanding of life. It determines how an individual organizes apparently scattered facts, events and experiences of this life into categories of thoughts, judgements and lifestyle. It is a framework from which people approach big questions about primary reality, the universe and human beings. A worldview has an immense influence in our life. Our worldview defines every aspect of reality for us and prescribe our relationship with them as individuals, groups or communities.
The Christian worldview
The Christian …

You prayed for a place in the university, and the Lord granted your request. Now you find yourself physically in the university. Living through the first week of university learning can be a traumatic experience for a new student. Here are few tips to help you go through this critical phase in your intellectual career.
It’s a new intellectual environment

First, you are presented with an explosive variety of ideas and philosophies inside and outside the classroom. You find yourself in the company of women and men with awesome intellectual pedigree. How …

Intellectual persecution of Christian students in the classroom
What exactly is intellectual persecution for a Christian student? Intellectual persecution is not material or economic hardship that you experience  in the course of your university education. It is not about sexual harassment by lecturers, students or other members of the intellectual community. Nor is it related to racial, ethnic or ideological conflicts. You can understand intellectual persecution better by relating it to general Christian experience of persecution. Christians in every walk of life are persecuted when they take an uncompromising stand for …

THE FEAR
The thought of being examined by professors who are antagonistic to the gospel can generate paralyzing fear in a Christian student. How do you respond to examination questions that are set by lecturers who perhaps persecute you intellectually? Won’t they mark you down if you express Christian points of view in your answers?
THE TRUTH
It is not necessarily true that all teachers fail students simply because they disagree in matters of personal beliefs. Some mean lecturers can do that, but it doesn’t follow that all students who share a …

WHOSE AUTHORITY?
The epistemic authority of the Bible is contested by most of your lecturers. Depending on your course of study, you are likely to encounter casual critics, higher critics, intellectual hypocrites and others who approach the Bible from a cultural perspective.
CASUAL CRITICS
Direct casual attacks on the Bible usually come from prejudiced scholars, atheists, humanists and others who resent various aspects of your Christian faith. Generally, this group of critics are militant in their opposition to the Lord Jesus Christ. They are open enemies of the gospel. Casual critics of the …

THE TRUTH
The Bible is the truth. The truth about the Bible is far from the prejudices and misconceptions of many lecturers and intellectuals. We have in the Bible, a miracle of God’s self-disclosure. It is the only  true written communication from God to humanity. In the Bible, the supernatural God speaks to human beings in a language we can understand.
The Bible is divinely inspired. Its messages include extraordinary and exclusive truth claims. It is intricately tied to history with hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled to the letter. …

God is the source of knowledge and its ultimate reference point. The type of relationship you have with  God determines the quality of what you can ever know. Therefore the first right step in the intellectual journey is obedience to God. This is exactly what the Bible means in Proverbs 1:7 when it identifies “the fear of the Lord” as the beginning of knowledge.
How does this work out in practice for you as a Christian student?  How do you understand the true beginning of knowledge in ways that guide your …

Science is not an all-powerful authority which holds the answer to all questions about life. In a general sense, the term, science, refers to organized knowledge. It  is also commonly used in a methodological sense to refer to a systemized inquiry into the nature of  things.  In the intellectual world, it is widely understood as an activity that uses clearly specified rules to produce knowledge in all disciplines.  This general and elementary discussion of the scientific approach highlights several issues from a Christian perspective.

A Product of Worldviews
The worldview that scholars …

Knowledge as divine revelation
The epistemic foundation of a biblical Christian perspective is divine revelation. Christians hold God’s revelation in Christ Jesus that is written in the Bible as the  ultimate truth to which all legitimate knowledge must conform. We reject any system of knowledge that is inconsistent with this propositional divine revelation. Human beings can know only those things that God decides to reveal to us. We can know those things that God reveals to us only because God created us with a capacity to know them. We can know …