individual or group who makes them (“by their fruits you will know them”—Mt. 7:20). Thus culture is the concrete expression of a society’s religious and philosophical commitments; it flows out of the heart—as it were—of the society which produces it (Prov. 4:23). biblical terminology Culture is in evidence throughout the pages of Scripture. Nearly every page speaks of farming or buildings or singing or commerce or religious rituals or the like. In fact, the Bible is itself a product of culture. The
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