Welcome to our blog. Thinking It Through is an apologetics ministry (no, we are not apologizing for anything. On second thought, maybe we are apologizing. Apologizing for some of the bad conduct, arguments and teachings of some of our Christian friends of the past and present.) Anyway, our purpose comes from a passage in the Bible found in 2 Corinthians 10:5. It says “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.” That last part “take every thought captive to obey Christ” is our focus. Our motto or tag line is Thinking By Design. We believe that we were designed to think a certain way, by a certain standard, according to a certain worldview. You see, everyone has a worldview even if they have not thought about it. For example, take a natural disaster. One person sees it as just that-natural. It is just nature and chance. Nothing else. Another person looks at that same disaster and sees it as God’s judgment for sin. Still another see it as Karma. Another sees it as God’s sovereign plan and though there is suffering, He will bring good out of it. Ones worldview will determine how one interprets and responds to everything. This is why there are so many views on so many things. Different worldviews equal different conclusions. All these conclusions can not be right. We believe there is one worldview that we were designed to have. One worldview that makes sense of everything and is the only totally consistent worldview there is. When we think according to this worldview we are thinking the way we were designed to think and everything comes together. Everything makes sense. Everything has purpose. When we do this we are taking every thought captive to obey Christ. We are aligning all our thinking to Jesus’ and that is how we were designed to think.
When I explain this to my kids I liken it to brushing your teeth with a chainsaw. That is not what a chainsaw is designed for and when it is used in a way, other than its design or purpose, it will cause terrible damage. In the same way when human being use their minds and bodies in ways in which they were not designed it causes great damage. We believe we were created by God to think according to His design. When we make up our own standard of thinking or ethics we run into big problems and things do not come out the way they were supposed to. If we begin heading in the wrong direction we will end up at the wrong destination.
Our blog is a place to think through how a biblical worldview applies to all of life. How does thinking according to God’s standard determine how we view things such as science, art, music, sex, technology, finances, government, food, Star Trek, pornography, right and wrong, or beer, just to name a few. We believe that presupposing this worldview is the very ground of knowledge itself. Everyone is welcome here no matter what your worldview. Stepping into each others worldview will help us better understand why we come to the conclusions we do and allow us to show each other the inconsistencies. Agreement isn't as important as clarity. But we can all agree we can’t all be right. So, grab a pint of your favorite beer, have a seat, and join us as we think it through.
