Really? What's next?

Apparently to some the Holy inspired word of God is not conservative enough and needs some editing. Who do these people think they are? You can read the full article here, Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages. What do you think about this... they want to set it up like wikipedia so anyone can edit it. But not just that, what do you think about editing the Bible in general?

Where have all the morals gone?

I got sort of wrapped up on the In Search of the Lord's way blog. Here is a post by Phil Sanders with poll results from Gallup concerning what Americans deem morally right and morally wrong. The results are quite astonishing.

Morally Acceptable Behaviors according to the majority of Americans:
70% divorce
61% sex between an unmarried man and woman
63% gambling
55% having a baby outside marriage
51% doctor assisted suicide

Morally Wrong Behaviors according to the majority of Americans:
91% married men and women having an affair
90% polygamy
85% cloning humans
78% suicide
61% cloning animals

More people thought cloning humans or animals was wrong than believed fornication (36%), homosexuality (48%), having a baby outside marriage (41%), or doctor-assisted suicide (44%) was wrong. Incredibly, more people thought buying and wearing clothing made from animal fur (39%) was wrong than sex between an unmarried man and woman (36%). More people thought cloning an animal was morally wrong (61%) than thought homosexuality (48%), abortion (48%) or having a baby outside marriage was wrong(41%)! You can read the rest of the post on the blog. I particularly loved the final quote.

"God doesn't consult opinion polls to determine right from wrong."

Statistically speaking...

I was on the In Search for the Lord's Way blog today and read these encouraging statistics about the Church of Christ.

"According to Flavil Yeakley, who presented this material at FHU a few years ago, one can say these things about churches of Christ:

* 12th largest religious group in America

* 6th fastest growing church in America

* 4th in the nation in the total number of congregations

* 5th in the nation in number of counties in which there is a congregation

* 1st in the nation in distribution of congregations

* 1st in the nation in weekly attendance."

You read the entire post on the Search for the Truth blog.

Esther

Apparently there is much debate about the validity of the book of Esther and whether or not it should actually be in the Bible. Some of the reasons are: God is never once mentioned in the book and no New Testament books refer back to Esther. What do you think? Reply to the post I'd like to hear what you guys think.