How Christians believe
christianity4Presuppositional Reasoning
This approach starts with the assumption that God exists and the Bible is true. It’s putting on a pair of glasses that shape how you see the world. Everything you experience—-whether it relates to love, morality, science, or logic—-is interpreted through the belief that God is behind all of it. Instead of trying to prove God’s existence first, presuppositional reasoning says that belief in God is the foundation that makes sense of everything else in life. Without that starting point, other things—-like how we know right from wrong, good from evil-—may seem confusing, and is harder to explain.
Faith as a Worldview
A worldview is like the map you use to navigate life. For Christians, faith in God acts as that map. It’s a way of seeing and understanding everything—-how we got here, why we exist, and how we should live. Christians believe that living as if God is real makes the most sense of their experiences and the world around them, and therefore, He is. Just like a map helps you get around without constantly questioning where you are, faith as a worldview lets believers confidently interpret life's challenges, joys, and mysteries, knowing that God’s truth provides a reliable guide.
Integration of Science and Faith
Christians can fully embrace science without contradicting presuppositional reasoning and faith as a worldview because they see God as the author of the natural world. For example, they can study biology to understand the complexity of life, or astronomy to marvel at the universe's vastness, viewing these as ways to appreciate and learn more aboutGod's creation. Their faith provides the foundation for why the universe is orderly, but it doesn't prevent them from using the scientific method to explore how that order works.
Conversely, not all scientists can adopt the Christian worldview because science, by its nature, doesn't assume anything about God or what is behind the natural world—-it focuses solely on what can be observed and tested from within the natural world. For the scientist who is not already a Christian, incorporating a Christian faith would require a shift in their foundational beliefs about the nature of truth, knowledge, and the universe. While Christians can comfortably integrate both faith and science, for many scientists, embracing a faith like Christianity would require a great shift in their core assumptions about reality.
Their faith provides the foundation for why the universe is orderly, but it doesn't prevent them from using the scientific method to explore how that order works.