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Direct Answer The transcript suggests Christians absorb the world’s “schema” when they adopt society’s values and shifting trends as if they were stable and worthy of love, rather than temporary and passing. You would recognize it when your desires, attention, and “views of things” match the world’s, showing love for what John calls lust and pride.

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• Bercot defines being fashioned after the world as adopting its “attitudes, values, morals, and worldview.”
• Tertullian is quoted: Christians are “a different man from a pagan,” and “If we love the world, we can be sure we are fashioned after it.”
• John is quoted: “Do not love the world… lust of the flesh… lust of the eyes… pride of life.”
• Chrysostom explains Paul’s word choice: the world is “fashion schema” because “there is nothing abiding or stable in this world,” and “the fashion of this world is passing away.”
• The Otterette contrasts it: “Future things are real substances… permanent and satisfying,” so believers should not “gape at the fashion of this world.”
• Cyprian is quoted: we have “renounced the world… living here as guests and strangers.”