Among the vast throng of such questions are a few which particularly occupy our attention and which come back with a monotonous regularity. Though the questions we ask are many and varied, they can be concentrated into five distinguishable categories. He calls these categories five magnetic points because men are drawn to them like iron filings to a magnet. These five points cannot be avoided. They are five fundamental questions of life, and as such they make up five fundamental portions of a well developed worldview.
Every man feels a sense of relationship with the cosmos.
He understands himself to be but a particle, an atom in the whole of the universe. But he also knows that he is intimately connected to the universe. He senses that there is no distance between himself and his environment. A Christian recognizes this as part of his created nature. Certainly, man is the head of creation, but he is still a part of that creation.