Foundations of a Worldview

Deuteronomy 10.22

“Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORDyour God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.”

Foundations of a Worldview

Deuteronomy 6.3
“Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply

greatly as the LORDGod of your fathers has promised you – ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’”

Sure. So do you. What's the problem?

Our world needs a civilizing influence.

Ecclesiastes 7.13

¹³Consider the work of God:
For who can make straight what He has made crooked?

Ecclesiastes 7.12

¹²For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense,
But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.

Ecclesiastes 7.11

¹¹Wisdom isgood with an inheritance,
And profitable to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7.8-10

⁸The end of a thing is better than its beginning;
The patient in spirit isbetter than the proud in spirit.
⁹Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry,
For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
¹⁰Do not say,
“Why were the former days better than these?”
For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

Ecclesiastes 7.5-7

⁵It isbetter for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
⁶For like the crackling of thorns under a pot,
So isthe laughter of the fool;
This also is vanity.
⁷Surely oppression destroys a wise man’s reason,
And a bribe debases the heart.

Ecclesiastes 7.2-4

²Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that isthe end of all men;
And the living will take itto heart.
³Sorrow isbetter than laughter,
For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
⁴The heart of the wise isin the house of mourning,
But the heart of fools isin the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 7.1

¹A good name isbetter than precious ointment,
And the day of death than the day of one’s birth…

Ecclesiastes 6.11, 12

¹¹Since there are many things that increase vanity,
How is man the better?
¹²For who knows what isgood for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?