Americans Discuss Morally Acceptable Issues
"(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - A large majority of adults in the United States believe four specific behaviours are unprincipled, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 91 per cent of respondents believe married men and women having an affair is morally wrong, while 90 per cent feel the same way about polygamy."
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15993The problem with this last part about polygamy is that these same Americans polled are, by and large, professing Christians, and will need to overlook or redefine their own scripture in order to come to such a conclusion. It's been said many times recently that the bible is very clear about marriage, and I would agree completely with this statement, and yet somehow come to a different conclusion. I urge people to define the word "presupposition", and will leave it at that for now, and simply conclude that, if one were able to lay aside their own presuppositions, and read the Holy Bible from cover to cover, they would not come away with the idea that plural marriage is anything sinful or wicked in and of itself (but that it is as equally valid a form of marriage as is monogamy), and that plural marriage was not "done away with", except by fallen human reasoning.
Significantly, when it comes to homosexuality, which is a clear abomination to God (He says as much), the numbers are far more liberal, with it being basically 50/50. These are the same people who feel somehow that a biblically valid form of MARRIAGE is morally wrong. This is the result, no doubt, of a similar attitude towards Scripture, that of redefining and "doing away with" those parts that make us feel uncomfortable, or that we are ashamed of, because they don't quite fit with the "good opinion" of society in general. In other words, scripture has been compromised, sacrificed on the altar of humanism.
Significantly, when it comes to homosexuality, which is a clear abomination to God (He says as much), the numbers are far more liberal, with it being basically 50/50. These are the same people who feel somehow that a biblically valid form of MARRIAGE is morally wrong. This is the result, no doubt, of a similar attitude towards Scripture, that of redefining and "doing away with" those parts that make us feel uncomfortable, or that we are ashamed of, because they don't quite fit with the "good opinion" of society in general. In other words, scripture has been compromised, sacrificed on the altar of humanism.
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