I agree entirely. My intention here is to point out that not everyone holds to the same "biblical perspective", thus they don't agree with certain behaviors or beliefs that contradict that perspective, and thus they believe that others don't have a perspective at all. This is a very important distinction. For an interesting exercise, check out this "Worldview Test". According to this test, I am a bad Christian who has admittedly good theological sophistication. The problem is that its worldview is a particular shade of Evangelical Christianity and right-wing republicanism. If you're at all libertarian or populist, you have a "non-Christian worldview." Similarly, if you are at all dubious of a 7,000 literal reading of Genesis, you are a bad Christian.
If you're at all libertarian or populist, you have a "non-Christian worldview." Similarly, if you are at all dubious of a 7,000 literal reading of Genesis, you are a bad Christian.
Actually the test is used to score your "Biblical" worldview, not your "Christian" worldview. I really don't believe that your political leanings (libertarian populist) necessarily make you a bad Christian, but it's not scriptural. In the Old Testament, Israel was a Jewish theocracy. If the people of Israel had followed God's law regardless of their political governing system, they would have found themselves in a greal deal less trouble. Unfortunately, they tended to take a populist libertarian approach to their gov't many times and then used that freedom to stray from God's law. They wanted to do what seemed right "in their own eyes".
Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.-Deuteronomy 12:8