Update on Cultural Mandate

okie..finally got something abt 'cultural mandate' but still trying to digest the information I got.....quite alot leh.........only got like 1 hr of reading yesterday(from like 6pm to 7pm...than teaching my son chinses.....alomost dieded)......so will update more when my thoughts are more orgainsed. But here's some writing I found on it.

The term cultural mandate is used by modern evangelical Christians to represent the doctrine that the biblical principles of Christianity are not only to be applied to one's personal life and the life of the church, but that God commands Christians to also transform society and its structures with biblical principle, thereby "redeeming culture" for the good of all. It is well summarized by Nancy Pearcey in her book Total Truth:
In Genesis, God gives what we might call the first job description: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." The first phrase, "be fruitful and multiply" means to develop the social world: build families, churches, schools, cities, governments, laws. The second phrase, "subdue the earth," means to harness the natural world: plant crops, build bridges, design computers, compose music. This passage is sometimes called the Cultural Mandate because it tells us that our original purpose was to create cultures, build civilizations-nothing less. .........

It does not try to bring biblical principle into public life in order to establish the kingdom of God on this earth, but merely to present a holistic, biblical world view that proponents believe lead to liberty and happiness.......but rather, are interested in taking timeless practical principles, many of which are not the sole property of Christendom, and applying them within a biblical framework.......
Another key distinction of those supporting a cultural mandate is that, in the public arena, proponents feel that they must convince and argue for their worldview, not from the bible as an authority, but from natural law and common ethics. As an example, they would argue to criminalize murder not because it is condemned by the bible, but because it violates the self-evident right to life that all men deserve, and because it violates the ethic that we should not harm one another or society. Even if cultural mandate proponents are biblically motivated, they respect the idea that appeals to religious authority should not carry weight in public policy discussions.......committed to furthering the application of biblical principle to public life.

After reading this write up you may wish to read the follwoing post...............