Language, Culture and Morality ...

• Sin = stealing an item
• Descriptive noun of individual committing the sin = thief
• Public perception of individual = bad

• Sin = sleeping with someone who is not your wife
  
• Descriptive noun of individual committing the sin = adulturer
  
• Public perception of individual = bad

• Sin = unjmustly taking someone's life
  
• Descriptive noun of individual committing the sin = murderer
  
• Public perception of individual = bad
  

• Sin = sex with someone of the same gender
  
• Descriptive noun of individual committing the sin = homosexual
  
• Public perception of individual = okay, because I was born that way.

This is why I think labels and language matters. This is why I think a discussion of genetics matters. It's why apologetics matters. Science is falsely eroding our moral base and that is in direct definance of Scripture. So if culture won't hear us when we speak of Scripture, let's learn to talk in their language and pave the way for the Bible. It's nothing more than Paul surveying the city and its idols, learning the ways of the people, before he mounts Mars Hill.