Worldliness Is A Declaration of War Against God

Worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal and righteousness look strange.- Author Unknown

Worldliness: it involves love for earthly things, esteem for earthly values, and preoccupation with earthly cares. Scripture plainly labels it sin – and sin of the worst stripe. It is a spiritual form of adultery that sets one against God Himself (James 4:4).- John MacArthur

Worldliness is any preoccupation with or interest in the temporal system of life that places anything perishable before that which is eternal. - John MacArthur

Exactly right. The world's philosophies and worldviews are totally opposed to God and Scripture. Instead of eating of the deadly tree of "knowledge", we should reject it and go to HIS Word alone that is sufficient. Yet how many New Calvinists or Reformergents or Purpose Driven people ignore this and actually SEEK to BE the world in order to "win" the world? Appealing to the flesh they do not offer Life--they offer death but just slap Jesus' name onto it and pat themselves on the back at how the world just LOVES them. There is NO middle ground here.

Jas 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Rom 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Eph 4:17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.