Biblical Worldview Research Paper

Bailey Thomas

Dr. Thornhill

Theology 201

27 October 2017

Biblical Worldview When reading and studying God’s Word, one is taken on an epic journey. A journey that is filled with emotion and fills the soul. Throughout the Biblical text there are countless times where we see God working and providing, and being the One who is worthy to be praised. God has had a plan since the beginning of time and we can read about His divine plan within the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, one can see the unity of the Bible and how God has intervened for His people. Having a Biblical worldview is beneficial to a person’s life because one can be well equipped for whatever God has in store for them. The Bible begins with God creating and everything that He

God chose specific people to put into action His plan and made a covenant with each of them. Abraham was the first person in which He chose to do so. The Abrahamic covenant is a covenant that God made with Abraham. The covenant is about God promising to bless Abraham with land and many descendants (Gen. 17:7). This covenant was an unconditional covenant between God and Abraham meaning that no matter what, God was going to keep His promise. The second covenant that pertains to the plan was the Mosaic covenant. God saw the evil Israel was doing and He wanted it to end. God told Moses to remind the people of Israel all that He has done for them and to obey His commands (Exodus 19:3-6). The third covenant that was involved in God’s divine plan was the Davidic covenant. This covenant was created to have the coming Messiah be lineage to David (Psalms 132:11). Ed Hindson and Gary Yates, editors of “Essence of the Old Testament: A Survey”, state, “The earthly reign of the Davidic monarch was a reflection of the Lord’s heavenly rule and the earthly instrument by which the Lord would exercise His sovereignty over the earth” (255). The purpose for these covenants was to put into motion the coming of the Messiah so that all of mankind can obtain

Jeffery Niehaus, author of “Covenant and Narrative, God and Time”, states, “God has made covenants with humans, and those covenants have been central to the process of salvation…” (Covenant and Narrative). Through the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Davidic covenants, God was able to fulfill His plan to save the world. Jesus Christ came to this earth in order to accomplish God’s divine plan for His creation (Luke 2:32). Jesus came to this earth to fulfill the prophecies and to die on the cross for the sins of the world so that all of mankind would be saved and can have the opportunity to come back home to God. Through Adam sin entered into the world and through Jesus sin exited (Romans 5:12-15). Jesus did not stop there though, no, He rose from the grave (Mark 16:5-7)! Death could not hold Him down because He is the Son of the Living God! When Jesus overcame death, He defeated the power of sin, death, and hell and commissioned a new covenant (Hebrews 8:6). When Jesus comes again, a new Heaven and a new earth will be created and all will be just as God intended it to be (Rev. 21:1). God is the main character in the Bible and He is willing to use anyone as a secondary