If the world (countries-wise) is in the majority on something, that doesn't have to mean it's correct, right?

[Lady Bug]

Hi. I'd like to know if you think that when the majority of "the world" (that is, a group of countries) has a stance on something, if we can reject it even though the "world" in the Bible is not necessarily the same thing "geographically," but metaphorically.

There is a political issue and I don't want to mention it because it would probably be more suitable on the OBOB Politics forum, but since I don't have an article, I'm just posing a general question.

My dad is complaining to me about a political issue (I don't feel like mentioning it because I'm not knowledgeable enough about it) in which the world is all against this one particular thing, and my dad is siding with the world, but I oppose what the world is saying. He tried to convince me that the world is correct, but I told him that "the world" is irrelevant to me (thinking, in my head, the "world" of the Bible).

However, can the notion of the "world" of the Bible be used to be against what the literal world (i.e. group of countries) stands for on certain issues?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Hi. I'd like to know if you think that when the majority of "the world" (that is, a group of countries) has a stance on something, if we can reject it even though the "world" in the Bible is not necessarily the same thing "geographically," but metaphorically.

There is a political issue and I don't want to mention it because it would probably be more suitable on the OBOB Politics forum, but since I don't have an article, I'm just posing a general question.

My dad is complaining to me about a political issue (I don't feel like mentioning it because I'm not knowledgeable enough about it) in which the world is all against this one particular thing, and my dad is siding with the world, but I oppose what the world is saying. He tried to convince me that the world is correct, but I told him that "the world" is irrelevant to me (thinking, in my head, the "world" of the Bible).

However, can the notion of the "world" of the Bible be used to be against what the literal world (i.e. group of countries) stands for on certain issues?

The ‘world’ is often incorrect.

 

[Lady Bug]

The ‘world’ is often incorrect.

Absolutely. That's why I asked about all this

 

[Gnarwhal]

Hi. I'd like to know if you think that when the majority of "the world" (that is, a group of countries) has a stance on something, if we can reject it even though the "world" in the Bible is not necessarily the same thing "geographically," but metaphorically.

There is a political issue and I don't want to mention it because it would probably be more suitable on the OBOB Politics forum, but since I don't have an article, I'm just posing a general question.

My dad is complaining to me about a political issue (I don't feel like mentioning it because I'm not knowledgeable enough about it) in which the world is all against this one particular thing, and my dad is siding with the world, but I oppose what the world is saying. He tried to convince me that the world is correct, but I told him that "the world" is irrelevant to me (thinking, in my head, the "world" of the Bible).

However, can the notion of the "world" of the Bible be used to be against what the literal world (i.e. group of countries) stands for on certain issues?

Definitely not. Most of the world isn't Christian, they're definitely wrong on that score.

Most of Europe is some variation of Marxist in their socioeconomics. Marx was a wicked, wicked man and his ideas were perverted by his submission to the devil, if not outright evil themselves. (Read The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor to really understand just how evil Marx and therefore Marxism/Socialism/Communism really are/is).

With those two things in mind, it's a safe bet that whatever the global community supports is bad and whatever it opposes is good with perhaps a small (though, shrinking) handful of exceptions. The "world" as we Christians understand it is the spiritual and supernatural aspect of the global community, that is the zeitgeist that is the result of the majority of people on this Earth worshiping demons in one form or another rather than the one true Christian God.

 

[RileyG]

The ‘world’ is often incorrect.

Indeed! Many people are influenced by sin beach of our fallen nature. Just because a majority approves of something, doesn't make it "right."

 

[NBB]

The bible says the world is under the evil one, and we should not conform to the world in its way of thinking.