Why Should Anyone Try to Have a Biblical Worldview? Isn’t it Better to be Unbiased?

Who doesn’t love a true crime podcast or an action-packed murder mystery? There is intrigue, mystery, struggle, danger, a fight for justice, and a buildup to the big reveal. As the detective discovers evidence, interviews witnesses, and closes in on the criminal, we sit on the edge of our seats trying to figure out the mystery before they can. By being the ones simply watching the show or listening to the podcast, we can feel pretty objective in our analysis. We just take the hard facts, piece them together, and…voila! We have the crime solved! However, who hasn’t been wrong at times and become shocked when the identity of the true criminal was revealed? We might have felt so sure that we had perfectly fit together every detail that we could hardly believe that we got it wrong. It is in those moments that we realize that maybe we weren’t as objective in our analysis as we thought.

Like an over-confident amateur detective, it is easy to approach life thinking that we are simply rational people who filter through the data and arrive at all of our conclusions in a purely logical way. In reality, however, everyone has a bias (you’ve probably heard this a lot before!). To put a different word on it – everyone has a worldview. A worldview is simply the lens by which we interpret the world around us and figure out what to believe. It is like the filter that all of the information we receive goes through. The thing is…everyone has this filter system. Why? Shouldn’t we get rid of any filter system so that we can be unbiased and objective? Well, that is going to be pretty difficult because having this filter system (aka worldview) is how we interact with the world. Saying that we would be better off without a worldview is like saying that we would be better off without people who interpret foreign languages. Pure data (like words in a language you do not know) is useless unless we have a way of interpreting that data.

So, the question isn’t “Should we have a worldview?” but rather, “Do we have the right worldview?” That is, do we have a good filtering system? Think about ChatGPT. It gives us quick answers to anything we ask because it scours the internet and pieces together a response. It is an awesome tool to use when it pulls from reliable sources, but it can lead us astray quite quickly whenever it starts giving us conclusions based on random things people have made up. In the same way, we want our worldview to help us form beliefs and make decisions based on what is true and not on just random stuff. SO…we have finally reached the question of this article’s title: Why should anyone try to have a biblical worldview? Because if Christianity is what is really real in our world (as we talk about in our other Y2Believe articles), then we should want it to be what helps us make sense of our world! We don’t want to try to navigate our lives using a faulty system, but rather one that is going to ground us in the truth.