If one has as one's ultimate authority God....

Milgram ask his colleagues what they thought – what % they thought would go all the way. They thought that since 1-3% of the population is sick with sociopathic symptoms, 1-3% of the subjects would administer the maximum shock. Based on what you know about the worldview of Harvard psychologists, why did they think that? From your perspective on the nature of mankind (fallen/sinful – hint hint) based on what the Bible teaches about the heart of mankind, what can we predict would happen? Milgram’s experiment is famous in part because it was so deceptive, unethical, and just plain wrong to do that to people. It’s more famous because of what it says about us. In the trial I described, 65% of the subjects delivered the maximum shock. Not 1-3%, but 65%. It is interesting that though we do not know the belief system of the subjects, he did note the professions of each subject and recorded quotes from the debriefing after the experiment was over. We do not know what percentage of Milgram’s subjects were Christians, but one was a professor of Old Testament theology. This subject disobeyed authority and stopped giving the victim shocks shortly after the first protest. The professor of Old Testament theology did not obey the immoral instructions. He explained his actions saying, “If one has as one’s ultimate authority, God, then it trivializes human authority.” Milgram’s study is instructive because without God as your ultimate authority, without the ability to approach, even the definition of the word psychology from a worldview perspective, when you get to college, you’ll be flipping metaphorical switches because someone in authority tells us to.