[wideawake]

An excellent point: too many Christians suppose that the lenses through which they view the modern world and the lenses through which the inspired Biblical authors viewed the world are more or less identical.

Hence the large number of self-described "Evangelical" or "Bible" Christians who accept the teaching of Margaret Sanger on fertility and reject God's.

What makes witchcraft and sorcery evil is that it involves humans usurping powers and rights which are only God's to grant.

[trisham]

What makes witchcraft and sorcery evil is that it involves humans usurping powers and rights which are only God's to grant.

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Well said, although it is not unusual for them to be used in the performance of evil as well.

[RobbyS]

too many Christians suppose that the lenses through which they view the modern world and the lenses through which the inspired Biblical authors viewed the world are more or less identical.

Not only Christians: most people cannot understand the past as it was seen and interpreted by their grandparents and great-grandparents. Ironically, that means they cannot how much they have in common with their immediate forebears or why they saw things so much differently. Being dead to the past means that one is blind to the to present.

[RobbyS]

too many Christians suppose that the lenses through which they view the modern world and the lenses through which the inspired Biblical authors viewed the world are more or less identical.

Not only Christians: most people cannot understand the past as it was seen and interpreted by their grandparents and great-grandparents. Ironically, that means they cannot how much they have in common with their immediate forebears or why they saw things so much differently. Being dead to the past means that one is blind to the to present.

[RobbyS]

too many Christians suppose that the lenses through which they view the modern world and the lenses through which the inspired Biblical authors viewed the world are more or less identical.

Not only Christians: most people cannot understand the past as it was seen and interpreted by their grandparents and great-grandparents. Ironically, that means they cannot how much they have in common with their immediate forebears or why they saw things so much differently. Being dead to the past means that one is blind to the to present.

[dan1123]

“What makes witchcraft and sorcery evil is that it involves humans usurping powers and rights which are only God’s to grant.”

Just for discussions sake, would this idea extend to antibiotics or gene therapy?