What Does The Bible Mean By The World?
Broadly speaking, within scripture the word ‘world’ means two things: 1. The World refers to the physically observable universe and its inhabitants. Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. We see here that God loves the world, it says for “God so loved the world…”, yet another passage 1John 2:15 says, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. This suggests that there are differences in meaning. The world in scripture is also used to mean a complex system of ideologies predicated on the principle of good and evil. The first definition of the word ‘world’ above is simple to understand, but this second definition of the term ‘world’ is where we will focus on today because it is where the devil traps Christians and truncates our journey to becoming like Jesus in all things. It is this ‘world’ that God says in 1John 2:15 says, love not...