The modern Christian Church generally presents a worldview shaped by distance, dualism, and control. God is understood primarily as a transcendent ruler—holy, sovereign, and judging—standing above the world rather than dwelling intimately within it. Although God is described as loving, this love is often mediated through law, doctrine, and institutional authority, making the divine presence feel distant and conditional.
The world, in this vision, is seen as fallen and morally dangerous. Rather than being regarded as sacred creation awaiting healing, it is treated as a temporary testing ground from which believers must ultimately escape. As a result, faith becomes focused on the afterlife, especially on “going to heaven,” while concern for justice, renewal, and transformation within history is diminished.
Human beings are viewed chiefly as sinners—guilty, weak, and incapable of goodness apart from divine intervention. Though created in God’s image, humanity is defined more by failure than by potential. Salvation is often reduced to correct belief rather than lived transformation, producing a culture shaped by fear, shame, and dependence on religious authority.
Together, these assumptions form a life-view marked by sharp divisions between God and world, soul and body, sacred and secular. Life becomes a test, faith becomes intellectual assent, and salvation becomes a future reward managed by institutions. This worldview helps explain why many sense a growing gap between the Christianity practiced today and the vision of life proclaimed by Jesus himself.
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