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The Josephson Institute recently surveyed a sample of nearly 30,000 high school students and found that 64 percent of students cheated on tests in the past year. In addition, 36 percent of students used Internet sources to plagiarize an assignment and 30 percent of students had stolen from a store.
Despite these warped behaviors, 93 percent of students felt satisfied with their personal ethics (David Crary, "Students Lie, Cheat, Steal, but Say They're Good," The Christian Post, Dec. 1, 2008).
Whoa! We have a problem here! Feeling okay about it does not make breaking God's commandments okay.
God's laws stand regardless of how people feel about them. Each of us will appear before the judgment seat of Christ to give account for what we have done (2 Corinthians 5:10). So what's the best course of action? Obey God's commandments and feel good about that!
Bookmakers in Britain have shortened the odds on the existence of God from 20-1 to 4-1 based on the production of a new atom smasher that is hoped to help explain how the universe was created.
(Martin Beckford, "Paddy Power Offers Odds of 4-1 That God Exists," The Daily Telegraph, Nov. 3, 2008).
New findings show that smoking has dropped in popularity with teens. A survey done by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan found that two thirds of teens canvassed thought choosing to smoke reflected poor judgment. Those surveyed also felt that being a smoker made a person less attractive to the opposite sex. Smoking by teens has declined sharply since 1996 when the popularity of smoking peaked among teenagers (Roni Caryn Rabin, "Teen Smoking Rates Decline," The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2008).
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