On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Mat Staver and Matt Barber were discussing the topic of “How Does One’s Worldview Affect One’s View of Government” during which they tried to explain the difference between theistic and atheistic worldviews, with Staver asserting that a belief in God is “the critical question” that must be addressed when discussing the issue of worldview.
Barber agreed, laying out a rather circular explanation as to why the Christian worldview is the correct one, explaining that since Jesus and the Bible are the standards of truth, therefore believing in them means that one’s worldview is “closer to the truth”:
Everybody has a worldview, as you said, and they can’t all be right. And no one person’s worldview is a hundred percent right except for one person who walked the earth and that’s Jesus Christ himself. He had the perfect worldview. He is the way, the truth, and the life and, going toward what you’re talking about here, the worldview that says there is a god versus the worldview that says there isn’t a god, clearly the worldview that says there is a god is closer to truth because Christ is god. He is the way, the truth, and the life.
So the worldview, the theistic worldview, is closer to god. We can get closer and closer and closer to the truth, which is the Word of Truth, which is scripture, the Bible. So the closer your worldview aligns with scripture, the closer your worldview is to truth.
Barber does not seem to realize that the existence of God is at the center of the division between the theistic and atheistic worldviews and so simply declaring that the theistic worldview is the correct one because God exists is begging the very question that is at issue.
