Dr Paul Allen

According to new data from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University’s American Worldview Inventory 2021 (AWVI 2021), the most prevalent “seductively-unbiblical ideas” embraced by American adults include: ** the spiritually inclusive idea that “having faith matters more than what type of faith you have” ** the belief that all faiths are of equal value ** belief in “karma,” the idea rooted in Eastern religions that you ‘get what you give’ ** the dismissal of absolute truth ** commitment to personal, subjective morality ** the idea that people are “basically good” ** the idea that success is determined by happiness, comfort, goodness, or fulfilled potential ** belief that sexual relations apart from marriage are morally acceptable ** the rejection of the notion that people are inherently sinful ** the conclusion that the purpose of accumulated personal wealth is unrelated to God’s purposes Surprisingly, the data revealed that even the 6% of adults who have a biblical

English: Icon of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.” – Confucius Every religion and philosophy has a version of the Golden Rule . Until Christ showed up on the scene two thousand years ago, the rule was almost always expressed in the negative — do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you. It is, if you will allow, a very libertarian philosophy. We can do X, Y, or Z because they do not harm our neighbors. It is the embodiment of karma in today’s culture. We think that we should be allowed to do that which we please as long as we do not harm others. We think that if we do bad things to others, bad things will be visited on us. When bad things happen to us or someone else and we think the perpetrator has gotten away with it, the average person tends to think that at some point something bad will happen to the perpetrator. “ Karma ’s a bitch,” the saying goes. Either God will smite them or fate will i