A Biblical Worldview in the Time of Abraham

Elements of a biblical worldview in the time of Abraham and Nimrod, against which Nimrod rebelled:

• There was a beginning to this world and there will be an end.

• God, who has no beginning or end, created everything and when he was finished, he declared it very good. (Therefore, apart from God, creation has no meaning. The lives of individual people will not have meaning apart from God.)

• Satan, himself a creature of God, rebelled and then incited the same response to God from Adam and Eve, before whom he appeared as a serpent.

• Adam and Eve’s fall divided all of their descendants into two sides: the side of the serpent or the side of the promised offspring of the woman.

• People on the side of the promised offspring of the woman are marked by faith in God and also by worship and obedience. People on the side of the serpent are marked by disbelief, rebellion, and disobedience.

• God blesses people on the side of the promised offspring of the woman; he curses people on the side of serpent. (The end of God’s blessing is life; the end of his cursing is death.)

• By God’s power and plan, the side of the promised offspring of the woman will triumph ultimately over the side of the serpent.