"Exploring Life's Worth: Society vs Scripture"

Greetings, and welcome to the Faith Chapel podcast. My name is Jason,

and I'm the pastor of Faith Chapel.

In season two of this podcast, we are looking at why we should have the Bible

as an authority in our lives, and then we discuss some of the issues in our

society to see what the authority of Scripture says about those subjects.

In this episode, we will dive into the issue of life, and what life is valuable

from a postmodern perspective, and what life is valuable from a biblical worldview.

Thank you for joining us today in our discussion.

Today we're going to continue on our trek through some issues in our society

where we see a difference in the biblical worldview versus the societal worldview.

And as followers of Jesus Christ, our goal and ambition is to put God first

and to put his word in an authoritative state in our hearts and in our minds.

And so while we put the Bible as our authority, that's not what everyone else does.

So other people come from other backgrounds and other authoritative ways,

and so they have their own different opinions on what is right and what is wrong.

But as followers of Jesus, ours is putting the Bible as the authoritative word over our lives.

Our society is an individualistic society that is greatly influenced by post-modern thoughts,

which really just means that an individual's happiness is the most important

good, and this happiness becomes a priority over everything else.

And this is one of the differing worldviews that we will encounter in our lives,

that happiness is a priority over us.

So an example is that postmodernists deny that there are any objective or absolute moral values.

So when they think about moral values, they think that it is based upon the

individual's thoughts, wants, desires, and those are what make people happy.

And so that's the idea that they have.

This means that they are able to do what makes them happy because that is the

highest good of their existence.

Their happiness is the highest good.

And this philosophy then tears down the biblical authority in our lives because

the Bible teaches hard truths such as love your enemy,

which we find in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, verse 43.

Matthew 5:43

This is difficult work to love your enemies.

Jesus follows it up by saying, pray for those who persecute you.

Again, this is a very difficult mentality to have.

This is a very difficult work to do.

And so while it tears this down because it says you don't have to do this because

it doesn't make you happy,

but the difficult work will ultimately lead us to satisfaction.

Even though it leads us through periods of pain and self-reflection,

especially to love your enemies means that you need to forgive them.

And that is really challenging work for us.

And so this is one of the ways that it undermines the biblical authority in our lives.

So as we take up biblical perspectives in this series, just remember that other

people have differing perspectives and ideas on this.

And so we might encounter people who do not agree with us on our philosophies

and on ultimately what Scripture teaches.

And so we need to really comprehend and understand that not everyone is going

to agree with what we say on this.

So taking the Bible as our highest authority, we're going to look at what life

is like for them, and we're going to first define what life is.

So Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as the state of an organism characterized

by capacity for metabolism, which is the ability to turn nourishment into energy,

growth, reaction to stimuli and reproduction.

Those are the main characteristics of what life is.

And when you look at life, whether it be a plant or whether it be an animal

or a human, these are all characteristics that life entails.

The ability to having a metabolism, growing, reacting to stimuli and reproduction,

we can see that in all of those different characteristics.

Right now, it's fall, and so we can see the reaction to the stimuli of colder

weather is that the leaves are turning their colors, whether red or yellow,

orange, whatever the color may be, that's what they are turning into.

There is that reaction to the colder weather coming, and so their reaction is

to have their leaves turn colors.

And so this is what we see happening in life, whether it's a plant or an animal.

These are the defining characteristics of them.

And so when we look at this from a worldly perspective and what the world teaches

us at this time, there are a couple of different categories that we can look at.

The first one that we are going to look at is the unborn, so the children in the womb.

So the world has varying degrees of what life looks like in terms of this.

So in the Amnesty International, on their website, they show a global campaign

that's called My Body, My Rights.

And the goal of this campaign is to stop the control and to criminalize sexuality and reproduction.

So let me say that again. Their goal is to stop the control and criminalization

of sexuality and reproduction.

And as one of their pillars, one of their stats that they show,

they show that 40% of women of childbearing age live in countries where abortion is banned,

restricted, or not accessible.

And so to them, the rights of the mothers in this case are more important than

the rights of the unborn. And so they look at this as not a life issue, but a choice issue.

So their goal and their mantra here is that the woman's right to choose trumps what life is.

And that is how they put it. On their website, I pulled this quote as well.

They say, decisions that are right, like whether or when to have children,

have become a matter for governments to control.

Some governments also allow other people in our lives to make choices for us,

like doctors, faith leaders, or our parents.

And some fail to meet their obligations to provide the information and services

that people have a right to.

And so here they're saying that whether you have the child that's in you or

not is a right for you. It's something that they are fighting for.

It's something that they are trying to pursue in this way to give all of the world this right.

And the fascinating thing here is that in the 40% of women, 40% of women living

in countries where abortions are banned, they also say restricted.

And so their mentality here is that this can happen, this abortion can happen

all the way through a pregnancy.

Because if you restrict it in any way,

if you restrict it, whether you're in the first month or the ninth month,

this is something that our world is seeing as a right, as something that everyone

should have the ability to do if they so choose or not.

So it's really restricting the life of the unborn here.

It's really taking that life and diminishing it to things that are less than human.

The unborn do not have the right to live if the mom says that's the case.

And this is what our world is promoting.

So we have this category, which is a hot topic issue in our society about when

to allow abortion, if we should allow abortion, and so on and so forth.

It is an issue, but our society, whether it is Planned Parenthood or Amnesty

International, and those who are in those camps say that that is not life.

The child in the womb is not life, and that's dehumanizing them.

So that's the worldly perspective for the unborn.

Next, we're going to go to the worldly perspective for those with chronic diseases or disabilities.

So in Canada, they have a program that's called MAID, Medical Assistance in Death.

Medical Assistance in Death. It's basically doctor-assisted suicide is what it boils down to here.

And it is so popular in Canada that nearly one out of 25 deaths in Canada is through this program.

It's actually more deaths in Canada come through this than through car accidents

or people getting pneumonia.

Like more people die from MAID than from those two areas.

And this has long been told that it is for those who are terminally ill,

those who don't have a chance of surviving and who don't want to go through

the agonizing pain of the end of their life because of the disease that they have.

But it is no longer for just that.

In Canada specifically, this has recently increased the MAID coverage to include

chronic conditions and disabilities.

So this year, mental illnesses can be the sole medical factor in being approved

for medical assistance in death, this MAID program.

And it is very wide encompassing.

And I'm going to share a few examples with you of what this looks like.

So there was a man named Alan Nichols. He was from British Columbia. He was 61 years old.

And the reason that he applied for MAID to be assisted in his death was for hearing loss.

Something that could have been corrected.

Something where you have hearing aids or cochlear implants that could have come in and helped him.

But it was too much for him, this hearing loss, that he applied and received

medical assistance in death.

And so it's going to something like hearing loss and the effects that it has

on your brain with the changes that happen there.

So really far distance from those who are going through end-of-life terminal painful illnesses.

So that one was from Canada. The next one I have was a 28-year-old from the

Netherlands. She was autistic, and she was suffering from depression.

She got to the point where her doctor said, there is nothing we can do for you,

nothing else we can Nothing else we can try to help you to come out of this depression.

And so this 28-year-old decided, I'm not going to live this way any longer.

She applied for help in dying, and she was approved.

Her euthanasia was approved, and she died with her boyfriend and her cats by her side.

Someone who had people in her life who were building, who she just didn't want

to live anymore because of the depression that was upon her.

And then the last example I have for you is Amir Farsad.

He was, again, from Canada, and he applied for medical assistance in dying because

he was getting kicked out of his apartment and he couldn't find another place

to live that he could afford.

So the big reason for him applying for it was that he was going to become homeless.

He had a back issue, a chronic back issue pain, and he could not work through that.

And the government assistance that he was getting was not enough to find an apartment for him.

So he is choosing death, not because of the back issue, but because dying to

him is better than being homeless.

And so these are the mentalities that people are having in giving their,

in applying for euthanasia or made in Canada.

It is issues that go way beyond just, I have a terminal diagnosis and I don't

want to go through the pain.

And so this shows us a devaluing of human life. human life seems to be able

to be just thrown out with the garbage.

It is something that people aren't fighting for.

It is something that people are honestly taking up for things that can be remedied,

things that you can and people have lived with.

It's a very pessimistic look at what human life is.

And in the United States, there are 16 states that have either introduced or

already passed aid in dying legislation.

And so it is something that is happening in the United States as well.

And so it's a, this is just where our society is when we think of what life is like,

whether you are the unborn or whether you are dealing with some sort of issue

that is causing stress on you.

Life is something that they seem to be able to just take and throw away like the garbage.

And so this is a worldview. And again, it stems back to the idea that human beings should be happy.

That's our whole drive in life is for human beings to flourish and be happy.

And when those criteria aren't being met, then life is extinguishable.

Just like you could blow out a candle, life is something that you can take away.

And so that's coming from a postmodern perspective, a very individualistic society.

So as we...

Went through that aspect of it, we're going to now shift and go through what

the Bible says about life.

And I want to begin with Genesis chapter 1, where life begins.

Genesis 1 · chapter mention

When we look at what God says about life, we don't have to look further than

the first chapter in Genesis.

There are five times in the first 25 verses of the Bible where God says that

it is good. What he created is good.

In Genesis 1.4, he looks at the light that was created and sees that it was good.

In Genesis 1.10, dry land appears. He looks at that and says that it was good.

On Genesis 1.12, that's seed bearing plants and trees.

God looks at them and says, it is good. And notice that that is really life and vitality.

It's the plants that we see, the plants that are growing. It is life. And God says it is good.

In Genesis 1.18, he says it about the sun and the moon, the light to govern

the day and the light that governs the night.

These things are good. In Genesis 1.25, he says that the wild animals and the livestock is good.

These are things that God has created. He sees life and vitality and he's creating

a world that can flourish and he sees that it's good.

But most importantly, this last one is Genesis 1.31.

And this is one that God doesn't say it's good. He says it is very good.

After human beings have been made and created, God looks over all he had made

and he saw that it was very good.

Life in God's eye is good and he cares for this life.

He puts man and woman in the garden to tend the garden.

He does this for them to care for what God has created, this life that God has

brought into existence.

And the next scripture verse we're going to go over shows us that God not only

thinks it's good, but he knows life intimately.

In his rebuke to Job, God shows his knowledge of even the most minute details of life.

I'm going to be reading from Job chapter 39 verses 1 through 8.

Job 39:1–8

Where it says, and these are God's words to Job.

Do you know when the wild goats give birth?

Have you watched as deer are born in the wild? Do you know how many months they carry their young?

Are you aware of the time of their delivery?

They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring.

Their young grow up in open fields, then leave home and never return.

Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?

I have placed it in the wilderness.

Its home is the wasteland. It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.

The mountains are its pasture land where it searches for every blade of grass.

And so God here shows that he sees the wild donkeys.

He knows about the deer and how they carry their young, the wild goats,

and when they give birth.

He is showcasing his intimate knowledge of life, and he is telling Job, I know all these things.

This is what I pay attention to.

This is what I care about.

God not only created life, but he knows it intimately and cares for it intimately.

This is the biblical idea of what God thinks about life.

And contrasting that with what the world thinks about life, it is a far cry.

One seems to think that life is only valuable if you can have happiness in it.

The other one is seeing that God sees beauty in it all.

It is all worthwhile and beautiful.

And so this is the big view of what God thinks about life.

God thinks it is good. And God looks at human beings in particular and says,

we have made the creation very good.

But let's look at more closely at what God says about humans in particular.

So we have a few verses here that we're going to cover. The first one is Psalm 139 verses 17 and 18.

Psalms 139:17

The psalmist writes, how precious are your thoughts about me,

O God. They cannot be numbered.

I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of sand. And when I wake

up, you are still with me.

Here the psalmist is saying, God, you think about me.

Your thoughts about me are precious. I can't even number them.

We can think of like 10 fingers and 10 toes, like it's more times than that,

that God thinks of us and his thoughts are precious about us.

It's remarkable that God loves us and the person who has all power,

who can speak the Son into existence is the same God who cares individually about us.

And this is what the next passage, Jesus's words in Matthew chapter 10,

Matthew 10:28–31

verses 28 to 31 set mean to us. He cares about us individually.

Jesus says, don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body.

They cannot touch your soul.

Fear only God who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

What is the price of two sparrows? One copper coin, but not a single sparrow

can fall to the ground without your father knowing it.

And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid.

You are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

And so God here knows the numbers of hairs on our heads.

And for some of us, that's a lot easier than others, but the point of the matter

is individually, he knows how many hairs are upon your head.

And we are more valuable than the flock of sparrows.

And Jesus says, can one of those fall to the ground without your father knowing it?

And if he thinks that highly of the sparrows, just think of what he thinks of us.

He is radically for us, and his life and vitality, he wants us to have life and life abundantly.

Then finally, about this issue just about humans, what it means for us is found

in Deuteronomy chapter 10, verses 17 through 21.

Deuteronomy 10:17–21

And these are Moses's words to the people of Israel.

And he writes, for the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords.

He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed.

He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice.

He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing,

so you too must show love to foreigners. For you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.

You must fear the Lord your God and worship him and cling to him.

Your oaths must be in his name alone.

He alone is your God, the only one who is worthy of your praise,

the one who has done these mighty miracles that you have seen with your own eyes.

And so he says here that he's not just caring for, at this moment,

the descendants of Abraham.

He doesn't just care for them, but he's caring for the entire world,

the foreigners who are visiting, the orphans who don't have anyone to care for

them, the widows who have lost their source of income.

He wants all people to know that they are valuable and important to him.

No matter where they are at, God cares for them.

And so this leads to the first issue that we talked about from the world's eye, the issue of the unborn.

And so what specifically does the Bible say for these people?

Well, the first thing that we see is that the Bible equates whether the child

is in the womb or out of the womb with the same word.

We see this in the gospel according to Luke.

In Luke 1 44, John the Baptist's mom Elizabeth here says to Mary,

Jesus's mom, when I heard your greeting, the baby in my womb jumped for joy.

So she used the term baby here. She didn't use the term fetus.

She didn't use the term the unborn.

She used the term baby here for a child that was still inside of her, was still in the womb.

And the impressive thing is that in the next chapter in the Gospel of Luke,

we see in Luke 2.12, this proclamation to the shepherds in the field.

The angels are telling the shepherds this, and you will recognize him by this sign.

You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth lying in a manger.

So Jesus had been born at this time. He was out.

He was breathing on his own. and he was laid in a manger and the angel was used

the same word, the same Greek word that Elizabeth is quoted as using in chapter

one for a baby that was still inside.

And so this idea and concept is that they have the same word to describe a child,

whether it is inside the womb or outside of the womb.

To approach this in a way that a right-to-life person has framed it,

they use a very simple formula here using scripture passages.

The first formula is that God prohibits killing people.

The second one is that human beings are uniquely created in God's image.

Therefore, we should not have abortions. We should not kill children in the womb.

And so they use a couple of different passages here to list that God prohibits killing people.

The first one is Proverbs 6, 16 and 17.

This is what the author says. There are six things the Lord hates,

no seven things he detests.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent.

And so this is a prohibition. Something that God detests is that innocent people

dying is something that God hates.

Then we have in the Ten Commandments, God telling to Moses, you must not murder.

And so God is approving of human life in these sentences, that the taking of

human life, especially innocent life in this way, is regarded as wrong.

It is something we should not do when we take the Bible as our authority.

The second reason is because human beings are uniquely created in God's image.

And the passage for this one is in Genesis 1, verses 26 to 27.

Genesis 1:26–27

Where it records, Then God said, Let us make human beings in our image to be like us.

They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky,

the livestock, and all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals

that scurry along the ground.

So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God. He created them.

Male and female, he created them.

And so here we see that we are unique. We are set apart from the rest of life

because we are in God's image and likeness.

And so taking a human life, taking an innocent human life is wrong because we are made in his image.

And other verses that we use to solidify this include Proverbs 8,

Proverbs 8:31

verse 31, where it says, and how happy I was with the world he created,

how I rejoiced with the human family.

And so here we see, again, the value of humanity. We are rejoicing with the human family.

Then we have Genesis chapter five, verses one and two.

And this is what it says. This is the written account of the descendants of Adam.

When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself.

He created them male and female and he blessed them and called them human.

And so again, here we see that God is setting humanity apart.

So it is wrong to take innocent life and human beings are made in God's image.

Therefore, we should not take the life of an unborn child or any child for that matter.

And then we have here that, going back to Psalm 139, that God does care about the babies in the womb.

This is something that the psalm puts plainly.

The psalmist, who is David of Psalm 139, says this, You made all the delicate

inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.

Your workmanship is marvelous how well I knew it.

You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, and as I was woven

together in the dark of the womb, you saw me before I was born.

Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

So here it talks about how intricately God is working at creating a human being,

how he is with the child in the womb,

how his workmanship is marvelous, how he watched us being formed, so on and so forth.

And this really declares that God cares about the child in the womb and that

he wants life for this child.

So in a book I got to research this topic, I found this quote from a pope, Pope John Paul II.

And he writes these words, The texts of sacred scripture never address the question

of deliberate abortion, and so do not directly and specifically condemn it.

But they show such great respect for the human being in the mother's womb that

they require as a logical consequence that God's commandment, you shall not kill,

be extended to the unborn child as well.

So notice that none of those passages talked about specifically abortion,

but it talked about the value of human life, and it talked about how God is

the one who puts it together.

And because of that, we side with God on this, that we should not kill the innocent

and the children in the womb, we should not kill them either.

And so that's the biblical perspective.

Again, if we are putting scripture as an authority over us, that's what we need to come.

That's how we get to the conclusion that the issue of abortion is not something that the Bible is for.

It is something that we should be for life, and ultimately life abundantly.

The other issue that we talked about from a world's perspective is those who

are suffering some sort of issue where they have thought about ending their

life through medical assistance in death.

And so to answer this question, and again, scripture definitely doesn't address

this specifically, but we can glean from what God says about life, how we should live.

So the first thing we need to realize is that suffering is real.

And it is not something that we should sweep under the rug. It is something

that is tangible and that people are really suffering, whether it be a medical

condition, whether it be poverty or not having drinking water that is clean.

There are lots and lots of ways that there are suffering in this world.

And so we need to recognize that and not try to diminish it because people's suffering is real.

And when we encounter someone who is suffering from our perspective with the

Bible as our authority, it's proper to begin with the suffering of Jesus.

Because Jesus is God in human form, because he is the second person of the Trinity.

We see that God did not back away from the suffering, but he actually embraced

it and he actually took it head on.

And so in Mark chapter 15, it's about Jesus's trials, his beatings,

Mark 15 · chapter mention

and ultimately his death.

In the midst of this, we find this passage, Mark 15, verses 16 to 20.

Mark 15:16–20

The soldiers took Jesus into the courtyard of the governor's headquarters,

called the Praetorium, and called out the entire regiment.

They dressed him in a purple robe, and they wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head.

Then they saluted him and taunted, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they struck him on the head with a reed stick, spit on him,

and dropped to their knees in mock worship.

When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the purple robe and

put on his own clothes on him again.

Then they led him away to be crucified.

So they beat him. They spit on him. They hit him with a reed stick.

They put this crown of thorns over his head, which caused gashes and bleeding

to come over him, he suffered.

He went through all of this suffering.

He did not back away from it. He embraced it to the point that he endured it.

As the sovereign creator of the universe, he didn't have to do this,

but he chose to go in this way.

And then he ultimately gave up his life, ultimately suffocating on this cross.

He knows suffering, and to diminish human suffering is not what he did.

To make light of it is not what he did, but he sat in it with us.

And so when we have suffering going on in our hearts or in our minds,

it's a very normal thing.

And it's something that we don't and should not diminish in any stretch of the imagination.

What we should do is what Jesus shows next, which is have compassion for these people.

So in John 5, verses 3-9, we see this.

John 5:3–9

Crowds of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, lay on the porches.

One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time,

he asked him, Would you like to get well?

I can't, sir, the sick man said, for I have no one to put me in the pool when the water bubbles up.

Someone else always gets there ahead of me.

Jesus told him, stand up, pick up your mat, and walk.

Instantly, the man was healed. He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking.

But this miracle happened on the Sabbath.

And so this man was lying there for 38 years and Jesus was there with him and

he didn't automatically just heal him and everyone who was there.

He had a conversation with him.

He had showed him compassion and mercy.

This is what we are called to do when people are going through really trying

and difficult times, when people are suffering mentally or physically,

emotionally, spiritually.

We are to be there with them.

This is Jesus's way. This is what he did.

Not only did he embrace the pain, Not only did he embrace the difficult nature

of pain and suffering, but he was there.

And he didn't diminish this guy's problems. He listened to him.

He sat with him. And ultimately, because he is Jesus, he was able to heal him.

But that's not always what Jesus did.

He did not eradicate sickness. He did not eradicate blindness for all time.

He did it for individuals.

And so this is the way of Jesus. Do not sweep the suffering under a rug.

Don't tell someone to buck up, get stronger, pray it out of you.

Those sorts of crazy things that people say, We need to be there with them in

their pain and in their suffering because life is valuable.

He also encountered a man with leprosy in Mark chapter 1. I'm going to read verses 40 to 42.

Mark 1 · chapter mention

A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed.

If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean, he said.

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him.

I am willing, he said. Be healed.

Instantly, the leprosy disappeared and the man was healed.

Again, Jesus was with him, speaking to him.

Something that was illegal for lepers to do is to get close to people.

And Jesus was right there with them with the ability to reach out and touch

him, close enough to touch him.

And that's how important life is, is that we don't diminish someone's pain.

We don't diminish someone's suffering, but we sit there with them.

We're in their presence.

Lastly, it's really easy to get into an us versus them mentality.

And so it's really easy to show compassion to those who are in our camps or in our circles.

And I think about the parable of the Good Samaritan here, where a enemy nation

comes and sees someone from a different nation who is really suffering and stops

and helps him and pays for his medical bills.

And so Jesus shows that all people have dignity and life in them.

So I'm going to end today with this passage from Matthew chapter 15 that shows

Matthew 15 · chapter mention

that to Jesus, all people have dignity and life in them.

Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

And that's an important marker here because he is not with Jewish people.

A Gentile woman who lived there came to him pleading, Have mercy on me,

O Lord, son of David, for my daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severely.

But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away.

Tell her to go away, they said. She is bothering us with all her begging.

Then Jesus said to the woman, I was sent only to help God's lost sheep, the people of Israel.

But she came and worshiped him, pleading again, Lord, please help me.

Jesus responded, it isn't right to take food from the children and throw it

to the dogs. She replied, That's true, Lord, but even dogs are allowed to eat

the scraps that fall beneath their master's table.

Dear woman, Jesus said to her, Your faith is great, your request is granted,

and her daughter was instantly healed.

And so here we see that Jesus helps out, not just those that he was sent to.

He was sent to the people of Israel. That's what his mission was,

to call the people of Israel into repentance and into belief in him.

The disciples were then to minister to them and to the whole world.

But to Jesus, people and life are valuable, not just because you have the same ancestors.

But because you have life in you.

And this ultimately is what the biblical idea of life is. Life is valuable.

Life is worth fighting for. Life is worth showing dignity and respect to other

people because they are made in the image of God.

And it doesn't matter how old or how big they are, every single person who has

life in them is someone that is valuable to God.

And as we look at our authority and what Scripture says to us,

this is ultimately what we as followers of Jesus should surrender to.

There are arguments and there are people who follow after Jesus,

but think choice is more important than life.

And I just don't see that in the book, in the Bible, in what God reveals to

us. I just don't see that.

And so life from the perspective of what I've researched and what I've seen life is important.

Not just life that makes you happy, but life because you are in the image and likeness of God.

That's the difference, in my opinion,

between a biblical worldview of life and the worldview that the non-Christian would say life is.

For me, life is valuable completely and intrinsically because we are in the.

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Image and likeness of God.

Thank you again for joining us in our discussion of life from a postmodern and biblical perspective.

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In episode five next week we discuss hope the next lesson was taped about two

weeks before the 2024 general election in the united states and we look at where

society was placing hope prior to the election and where the bible says our

hope should be have a great day.