I could plead with you to study the Bible for personal edification; I could try the art of persuasion to stimulate your quest for happiness. I could say that the study of the Bible would probably be the most fulfilling and rewarding educational experience of your life. I could cite numerous reasons why you would benefit from a serious study of Scripture. But ultimately the main reason why we should study the Bible is because it is our duty. If the Bible were the most boring book in the world, dull, uninteresting and seemingly irrelevant, it would still be our duty to study it. If its literary style were awkward and confusing, the duty would remain. We live as human beings under an obligation by divine mandate to study diligently God's Word. He is our Sovereign, it is his Word and he commands that we study it. A duty is not an option. If you have not yet begun to respond to that duty, then you need to ask God to forgive you and to resolve to do your duty from this day forth. (Emphasis added.) [1]

Christians will spend hours on end reading about an imaginary code in a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, but little to no time reading their Bibles. Is it any wonder that  
America is in a state of moral anarchy?   

Before Bibles began playing host to dust mites, Christians knew what they believed and why they believed it.  Not anymore.  Biblical moral values no longer dictate the way believers live their lives.  Professed Christians have all but cast off their biblical worldview and blended in with our godless society.  Is it any wonder that the religion of Secular Humanism has infiltrated our nation's institutions? 

The Secular Humanist religion is anti-supernaturalism, therefore God does not exist.  You might say that its theology is atheism.  As well, it has a philosophy of naturalism and holds to a belief in Darwinian evolution. Secularists believe that man is self-sufficient. If man is self-sufficient, he has no need for God. 

Don't think for one minute that worldview doesn't matter.  It matters. The secular humanist's influence on our courts has been dramatic.  We're hearing more and more how activist judges are handing down ungodly decisions.  The ACLU, aided by liberal judges, are destroying the very foundations of our biblical heritage under the guise that the First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state. The radical Left hopes to eliminate every trace of biblical expression from this nation.  Removal of the Ten Commandments displays from public property is a good example.  According to author and historian David Barton, "No ruling has been more publicized than that against Judge Roy Moore in Alabama. In that case, the 11th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 5,280 pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments could not be displayed in the rotunda of the Alabama State Judicial Building."

The irony is that America was founded on Judeo/Christian principles, so what could be more absurd? 

Most Americans no longer believe in absolute moral truth as defined by Scripture.  Instead they embrace moral relativism, which is the belief that truth is relative to the person and their situation. In other words, moral principles have no objective truth.  Relativists use phrases like, "That's your truth," which translates to, "Believe what you want, I'll believe what I want." Relativists aren't concerned that their view of rightness and wrongness is based on whatever seems right.  Can a person's worldview be considered sound if the object from which they form their worldview is illogical or indefensible? 

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