By James B. Jordan
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We started nailing boards together, pouring concrete, laying pipes, and all the rest, according to our whims. What kind of building would we erect, if we could get anything up at all? Clearly something else is needed: a blueprint. We need to go to an architect and have him draw up a blueprint, a model, for us to work from. We also need to come up with a schedule of what is done first, and what is done Iater. Then we can get together and build the house properly. The Bible tells us that man is God’s image and workman, taking the raw materials of the world and building civilizations from it.
In order to be delivered from enslavement to our modern worldview grid, we must become familiar with the Biblical worldview grid. Learning to see and be patterned by Biblical symbols and habits will give us the perspective we need to evaluate our world, acquire wisdom, and begin to think how to reshape the world and make it more pleasing to God. Quite 36 THROUGH NEW EYES clearly, no society can be shaped on a Christian base without the restoration of symbols. We have to give new direction to our culture, and to do that we need to revive our symbols, People understand this instinctively, even if they do not understand it intellectually.
Looking at the sky, we see an image of heaven. , Job 38:7; Revelation 12:4; 18:2; John 1:32). To paraphrase what Genesis 1 says about the firmamentheaven, we can say that God created the appearance of a shell to separate the (blue) waters above from the (blue) waters below. This shell symbolizes the boundary between heaven and the heavenly sea (Revelation 4:6) and earth. If we look up at this blue shell, it looks as if the “greater light and the lesser light” and the stars are fixed in the shell.