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Using Apologetics and Hermeneutics to Bridge the Gaps of Culture

If every culture is, in and of itself, salvifically hopeless, then the fullness of one’s identity in Tribal culture, Asian culture, American culture, Viking culture, or any culture, is hopeless. Culture cannot save us.       1.       All cultures in and of themselves are salvifically hopeless.        2.       There are people who place the fullness of their identity in their culture       3.       Therefore, those people who place the fullness of their identity in their culture are salvifically hopeless.  Because a culture can completely change from what it began as, it can therefore not be timeless (given enough time, change in a culture is inevitable). If something is removed from that culture, or added to it, it is a different culture altogether, much like the Ship of Theseus. Winfried Corduan writes,  By the term  diffusion , I mean the distribu...