1.   Mankind can only have intrinsic value if there is a God

The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal.” This idea also found its way into the United States Constitution. The preamble of the U.S. Constitution states that the purpose is to “promote the general welfare.” The theme is that all human beings are equal, not a select a few.

These ideas align perfectly with the biblical worldview which teaches that all were created for a purpose, that God made everyone in his image, and that as our creator God values his creation. God has made everyone intrinsically valuable regardless of the thoughts of other humans.

A secular worldview leaves religion out of the question. Without God, it leaves the idea that everyone is here by some sought of cosmic accident. Since there is no God, then mankind gets to decide the value of humans. This is one of the core issues of the political divide seen today.

The value of mankind is starting to dimmish as the American culture pulls away from the biblical worldview and progresses more toward secularism. That is why there is such divisiveness and hurt over issues such as abortion or euthanization. All of these issues are putting a disproportionate value on life when all life should be valued equally at all stages.

2.  Man-kind is originally sinful

The Founding Fathers first created the Articles of Confederation while trying to create a supreme law of the land. In essence it was a friendly agreement among the states that would let the government declare everything but wouldn’t let them do anything. So, it was essentially useless.

The Founding Fathers were terrified to have a government with too much power, due to the fact they all had been oppressed and persecuted by those in religious and political power. The Founding Fathers understood the depravity of mankind. That mankind isn’t inherently good but inherently sinful. They knew that if an individual was given to much power, they would abuse it.

This belief aligns perfectly with the biblical worldview that says mankind is inherently sinful and evil. The founding fathers knew the depravity of man always wanting more power. They put up safeguards through the separation of powers to protect the citizens of America from its government.

A secular worldview will say that all of mankind is good and through oppression they become evil. This is actually illogical because at some point there had to be the first evil person who oppressed others, but that is a topic for another day.  This is why big pushes for things such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are starting to be seen today. These policies are not for the purpose of creating equal opportunity for people, but to create equal outcomes.

These equal outcomes are perceived as a good thing due to someone’s prior oppression. To accomplish this, another person’s equal opportunity and freedoms must be stripped from them in order to give a benefit to those perceived as oppressed. In essence, someone is being oppressed to relieve the oppression of someone else. Sorry, oppression can’t be rid by using oppression. It doesn’t work that way.

The biblical worldview accounts for lessening the oppression in this life by an individual’s walk with Jesus. As one becomes a Christian and makes Jesus Lord of their life, then they should be striving to become more Christ like and loving their neighbor as Jesus did. Oppression will never be fully rid of in this life due to the sinful nature of mankind. In this life one can only lessen oppression and try to protect oneself from it. All while holding onto the hope and promise of being rid of oppression in the next life in heaven.

The secular worldview does not properly address the reality of man’s sinful nature. Instead, it assumes life is just a big pursuit for power and the only way to solve the problem of oppression is with more oppression.

3.  There are absolute or objective moral rights and truths

The U.S. Constitution wasn’t originally signed by all the delegates partly due to the want of a bill of rights. Protecting the people’s rights was an essential aspect for the founding fathers to include in the creation of the United States Government.

The 6^th President John Quincy Adams and son of President and Constitution signer John Adams stated the Declaration of Independence was “the platform upon which the Constitution of the United State has been erected.” It’s often looked upon that these two documents should go hand and hand with each other.

It didn’t say the government or a group of individuals give us rights. If the government says tomorrow, you don’t have a right to live or be free does that mean you don’t? If that were the case, those that are moral relativists would quickly change their opinion to believing there are moral absolutes.

The Founding Fathers knew there were these objective moral laws and rights that everyone just knows, as they are written on everyone’s hearts. They also knew that if there are objective moral laws there must be an objective moral law giver or creator. Laws and rights just don’t come out of thin air. They knew these objective moral rights could only be if there is a God and that is why they were described as being endowed to us by our creator.

In the secular worldview, there are no objective rights because it can’t refer to God being the creator of rights or a moral standard outside of ourselves. By default, this leaves mankind as the creator of rights, since once again laws don’t come out of thin air. If there are no absolute moral truths, then all that is left is peoples’ opinions of what they think is morally true.

America’s postmodern culture is finding it harder and harder to define moral truth as it becomes more and more secular. This has become a major catalyst behind the escalated political divide seen today. People know if they can just yell the loudest with some emotion, then they can get their truth put into law.

Recap:

Only a biblical worldview can account for the intrinsic value of mankind, the inherent sinful nature of mankind, and for there being moral absolutes or objective moral truth. A secular worldview can’t account for these things and by default it leaves everything to a power pursuit in which people yell their "truth" as loud as they can to hopefully get their way.

Secularism can’t solve the problem of the current political divide in United States of America today. Secularism is the problem. People may not like the exclusiveness of the biblical worldview being the only worldview to support the U.S. Constitution, but they can embrace enjoying all the inclusive benefits of human value, rights, and freedom that comes along with it.