While I have used the United States in my examples because it is where I reside, I realize that there are many other countries in the same situation. I am illustrating the power of culture over religion. This has been permitted even in a nation that is still widely regarded as the most "religious" nation in the industrialized world. I realize that similar developments are taking place in other parts of the world. I must say, we are smarter, but not wiser. We are in a pitched battle for the culture of the Earth. Most often what we assume to be issues of social, religious or political activity are really issues of culture.
Culture is the manifestation of the collective thinking of a people. This means that whoever controls the minds of the people creates and controls culture. The culture on mankind's mind was so wicked, that the Lord had to destroy the Earth:
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Culture is also a product of law. The most effective way to change a culture is to control its laws. By the way, that is what is going on with the laws here in America. Whatever is enacted into law eventually will become accepted as "normal" by most citizens, regardless how they might have felt at the beginning. That is what is happening with the gay agenda in this country.
Is there any surprise then, when the Lord got ready to create a nation out of a people who had been slaves for 40 years, He gave them a code of law encapsulated in the ten commandments. God knew that before the Israelites could become a holy nation and a people set apart for Him, He first had to change their thinking. His purpose was to create a Kingdom culture on Earth by raising up a nation of Kingdom thinkers and Kingdom livers.
I will continue this discussion tomorrow in part 3.
Genesis 6:1-8
~~W.R. Luchie
Culture is the manifestation of the collective thinking of a people. This means that whoever controls the minds of the people creates and controls culture. The culture on mankind's mind was so wicked, that the Lord had to destroy the Earth:
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Culture is also a product of law. The most effective way to change a culture is to control its laws. By the way, that is what is going on with the laws here in America. Whatever is enacted into law eventually will become accepted as "normal" by most citizens, regardless how they might have felt at the beginning. That is what is happening with the gay agenda in this country.
Is there any surprise then, when the Lord got ready to create a nation out of a people who had been slaves for 40 years, He gave them a code of law encapsulated in the ten commandments. God knew that before the Israelites could become a holy nation and a people set apart for Him, He first had to change their thinking. His purpose was to create a Kingdom culture on Earth by raising up a nation of Kingdom thinkers and Kingdom livers.
I will continue this discussion tomorrow in part 3.
Genesis 6:1-8
~~W.R. Luchie
