Pro-life policies likely Obama targets

[Spinach]

I have no idea what I would have believed in the 1820's. I suppose it would have depended on where I was born, what my family believed, and the decision I came to as I grew up. It would be pure speculation to say what I would have believed or not believed back then.

in other words culture should tell us what to beleive, and scripture plays no part in it.

There is scripture in support of slavery. Can you show me where it was done away with, scripturally?

ETA that I'm only playing devil's advocate here.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

in other words culture should tell us what to beleive, and scripture plays no part in it.

Whether it should or not, the culture we are raised in does indeed play a major role in our views and mores. And people adapt their interpretation of scripture to match. For example, many Christians...even Baptists...viewed Biblical references to slavery as God's endorsement of that institution in 19th Century America. Had you or I been born in Saudi Arabia, it is likely we would now be Muslims. That is just how it is...we are partially products of our environment. It is impossible to say who you would be if born into a totally different time and culture.

 

[Crabtownboy]

in other words culture should tell us what to beleive, and scripture plays no part in it.

Whatever era we are born in we are shaped by both the culture of that era and in the way they interpreted scripture. In 1820 if I had been born in Mississippi or any other slave state there is a good possibility that I would have believed that scripture supported slavery. If I had been born in Boston or New England there is a good possibility that I would have believed that scripture did not support slavery.

In 1820 I had ancestors living in Virginia, what territory that became Wisconsin. and in the area that is now West Virginia. Interestingly at that time one of my great-great grandfathers was trapper in the Montana territory for one of the fur companies. Montana must have been a wild place at that time.

Shouldn't we then be voting for someone who is not planning to increase abortion, by allowing partial birth abortion, and making tax payers (even christians) pay for it. I do not see voting for someone who will allow partial birth abortion as doing anything to reduce the problem of abortion.

Certainly that is one factor to take into consideration as well as other factors in what the person says they will try to do, and what their past record says about them.