life, there is no single response to culture”(1995;p278). Atkinson and Field, in approaching the subject of the relationship between God and human culture rightly assert that there is a large diversity in the responses to the issue. There is a plurality of answers rendered to formulate the relationship between God and culture, some of which are fallacies, some containing more truth than others. We can never truly come to a point of total agreement on the nature of this relationship (largely because it is also tied to our relationship with God as individuals) but we will look at some of these responses.
God against Culture.
This viewpoint renders culture as totally evil and that God is against culture. It sees God as in opposition of culture and demands of its followers to oppose culture in all its forms. Hostility between culture and Christians is encouraged. In this approach culture is constantly associated with the world. Scriptures such as 1 John 2 vs. 15-16 and 5 vs. 19 are used as proof texts to indicate that Christians are to distance themselves from ‘the world’ (culture) and are to try and escape it for it is under the sway of the evil one. This approach therefore propagates for a withdrawal from culture and discourages engagement, it taunts with ideas of isolationism and escapism seeking to create a culture-free Christianity. But as Atkinson and Field point out ” the is no such thing as culture-less Christianity”(1995; p278). Human beings remain inextricably culture bound. Therefore this approach has shortcomings. Firstly it makes the mistake of equating
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