Revealing the failure of Naturalist
and Post-Modernist philosophies to
explain life as we experience it,
Christian mathematician John Byl shows
that only a Christian worldview, based
on the Bible, can supply us with the
necessary foundation for logic,
mathematics, science and morality,
while giving life coherence, meaning,
purpose and hope. Since the beginning
of time man has challenged God’s
supremacy, striving to dethrone God and
reinterpret the universe according to
his own standards and purposes. In
response God, who is determined to
destroy the wisdom of the worldly wise
and to unmask it for the foolishness
that it really is, issues his own
challenge to sinful man. Arrogantly,
modern scientific man takes up that
divine challenge, arming himself with
scientific knowledge and technological
power. Indeed, man has convinced
himself that his rational wisdom has
made foolish the wisdom of Scripture,
with its tall tales of a personal God,
of life after death, and of heaven and
hell. ‘Such notions’, Einstein
declared, ‘are for the fears or absurd
egoism of feeble souls.’ John Byl
argues that the Christian worldview
provides the only foundation for logic,
mathematics, science and morality. The
Divine Challenge aims to substantiate
this bold claim. Byl shows the failure
of today’s predominant philosophies to
provide a coherent worldview that can
yield a plausible account of the
various aspects of life as we
experience it. Only a Christian
worldview, squarely based on the truth
of the Bible and the comprehensive
sovereignty of God, can give our lives
coherence, meaning, purpose and hope.