{"id":17607,"date":"2012-11-04T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17607"},"modified":"2012-11-04T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T15:39:28","slug":"even-biblical-views-change-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/even-biblical-views-change-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Even &#8220;Biblical views&#8221; change over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An older post, but still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/02\/18\/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal\/\" target=\"_blank\">rather informative<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The \u2018biblical view\u2019 that\u2019s younger than the Happy Meal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, McDonald\u2019s introduced the Happy Meal.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.<\/p>\n<p>Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctpolitics\/2011\/06\/poll_americans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Many don\u2019t actually believe this<\/a>, but they know it is the only answer that won\u2019t get them in trouble.) They\u2019ll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they\u2019ll insist that it does.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.<\/p>\n<p>That year, <em>Christianity Today<\/em> \u2014 edited by Harold Lindsell, champion of \u201cinerrancy\u201d and author of <em>The Battle for the Bible<\/em> \u2014 published a special issue devoted to the topics of contraception and abortion. That issue included many articles that today would get their authors, editors \u2014 probably even their <em>readers<\/em> \u2014 fired from almost any evangelical institution. For example, one article by a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary criticized the Roman Catholic position on abortion as unbiblical. Jonathan Dudley quotes from the article in his book <em>Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics<\/em>. Keep in mind that this is from a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Graham\u2019s magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: \u201cIf a man kills any human life he will be put to death\u201d (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. \u2026 Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Christianity Today<\/em> would not publish that article in 2012. They might not even let you write that in comments on their website. If you applied for a job in 2012 with <em>Christianity Today<\/em> or Dallas Theological Seminary and they found out that you had written something like that, ever, you would not be hired.<\/p>\n<p>At some point between 1968 and 2012, the Bible began to say something different. That\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Even more interesting is how thoroughly the record has been rewritten. We have <em>always<\/em> been at war with Eastasia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An older post, but still rather informative: The \u2018biblical view\u2019 that\u2019s younger than the Happy Meal In 1979, McDonald\u2019s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception. Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,11,13],"tags":[263,601,360],"class_list":["post-17607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-history","category-religion","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-abortion","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4zZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17608,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17607\/revisions\/17608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}