<div id="RTEContent">Michael,<br> <br> I am curious as to how you defend the south as the best culture for the time when it banned the reading of the Bible to millions of slaves.<br> <br> Certainly you are aware that southern slave owners and the state legislatures forbid the learning of reading so they could not communicate with each other and read the teachings of the Bible and Christ.<br> <br> As a Christian, do you not consider the denial of millions of people from reading the Word of Christ about most evil thing you can do to someone and Christ?<br> <br> I find it hard to believe that someone that believes in the Bible and Christ would support the culture that banned it as the most pure and Christian.<br> <br> As a Christian, I was taught not to idolize any human civilization but instead to try and follow Christ. The way to live is the way Christ taught us, not the way the Romans, Egyptians, Greeks, Southerns, Northerners, or Norwegians lived. Christ i!
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only example that we need, and the only correct one. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br>-DJA<br> <br> <br><b><i>Michael <metzler@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink!
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style="font-size: 12pt;">Yes, I don’t disagree with you. However, we can still make comparisons between different times in the history of the world and also between different people groups living at the same time. The Apostle Paul did just this in his letter to Titus, describing the Cretans as generally lazy brutes. There is such a thing as cultural and moral decline, even in a pre-glorified fallen world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Michael Metzler<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:
12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Micheal,<br> <br> "The land was not as filled with idolatry, hatred, bitterness, disloyalty, adultery, infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism, immorality, relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety, and just about any cultural non-good the western world spent 1500 years enumerating."<br> <br> Sorry but you will find the overwhelming majority of historians will disagree with this statement. These things have been in full !
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every human civilization since recorded history, and probably before. <br> <br> The only place where these things to do plague human society is in Heaven.<br> <br> "idolatry, hatred, bitterness, disloyalty, adultery, infidelity, dishonor, laziness, paganism, immorality, relativism, general cultural breakdown, statism, impiety, and just about any c! ultural non-good" was not invented in the last 150 years in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br> <br> If you ever talk to people that are 90+ years of age they will tell you that some things have gotten better, and some things have not, but for the most part, things are better.<br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div>
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