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The title of our post today is The Frog in the Kettle.

America's drift from a biblical worldview started in the 1960s, perhaps earlier.

That means it has been occurring for 60 or more years. Maintaining a

biblical worldview means one believes the Bible is the inerrant word of God, and that scripture

governs all of life. The vast majority of America's founders held a biblical worldview,

as did our educational institutions. It is not possible to drift only slightly off course from the guiding

principles of Scripture unless a course correction occurs

quickly. As any boater or sailor knows, drifting even slightly off course ultimately leads us way off

course. If some of the Bible isn't true, none of it can be trusted.

If God is at all, he says he is. How do we know if he is anything he claims to be?

A lack of biblical worldview leads to relativism, a belief holding that truth or moral

or aesthetic value, etc., is not universal or absolute, but may differ between individuals and or cultures.

In other words, truth and or morality is what one says it is.

When this mindset exists, it removes all personal and societal moorings.

It's like being tethered to the wind.

There is nothing new about relativism.

It started under a tree in Genesis 3.

This dogma was written about in much detail in the biblical book of judges. In that commentary on

humankind's lost condition, verses 17.6 and 2125 summarized this philosophy as doing what is right

in one's own eyes. Any fool can see the idiocy of this,

but fallen human nature loves it. If it feels good, do it. Our current drift away from biblical standards toward relativism began by only a degree or two. Most compromise does. Some call it the frog in the kettle concept, or principle.

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