Commentary: “Unveiling the Tapestry of Morality”

What criteria do you use to determine what is moral?  What do you think Christians use to determine what is moral or immoral?  Fundamentally, this is a question that asks “What is the Basis of  Truth?” Figure 1 indicates a trend that as the younger cohort becomes more dominant, the criteria becomes whatever the individual determines for himself is truth. This, then,  is the only truth one can know. This ideology of the “self” is consistent with current cultural practices where one can deny nature and determine for one’s self their own “gender.”  A similar ideology is derived from Critical Theory.  This theory divides various categories into Oppressors and the Oppressed in order to pent out “justice– a major criteria for determining whether an action is moral– as shown in the accompany essay today.

“The data from the Gallup poll at a study from Arizona Christian University found that of an estimated 176 million American adults who identify as Christian, just 6% or 15 million of them actually hold a biblical worldview.” (https://www.christianpost.com/news/fewer-than-half-of-evangelicals-believe-bible-is-literally-true.html).  Whether or not one has a biblical worldview is the factor which determines the basis for one’s morality.

Figure 2 shows that today, only 58% believe the bible is inspired or 42% do not. It is difficult to have a biblical worldview if your don’t really believe the bible is true.  As the study cited above indicates, even holding the bible as inspired does not mean, you use it for  your decision making.

Today’s essay on “Morals and the Public Square–Part 2” starts to answer the question “What is Moral?… for Christians and non-Christians. Later this will become compared  to Biblical definitions of morality.

Martha’s Poem “The Frogs in the Water” addresses how we are just like the Frog in the water slowly heated.  We accept what’s happening before our eyes — both in the church and in the society.