The Ethics of God: A Beginners Class on Traditional Christian Ethics (Pt.2)

The Ethics of God: A Beginners Class on Traditional Christian Ethics (Pt.2) \

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Written by Christopher Neiswonger
Saturday, 06 June 2009 00:00
What are the basic presumptions common to all "Christian" ethical systems? The moral law of God and the cultivation the traditional Christian virtues.

1. The existence of God.
2. The identity of God and the uniqueness of Christianity.
3. The veracity, historicity, and inerrancy of Holy Scripture.
4. The presentation and defense of a basic orthodoxy.
5. The promotion of a healthy spiritual life in faith and practice.
6. The understanding of a consistent Christian ethic applied to all of life.
7. Communicating the coherence and defensibility of the Christian faith with clarity, kindness, and grace to any that might be inclined to hear and teaching those that desire such how to do the same.

The Classical form for Individual and Social Justice

The Moral Law of God-
“Love the Lord your God with all your mind, heart, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself; on these hang all of the Law and the Commandments”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“What you have done unto the least of these you have done to me.”
“Have mercy on the little children and do not keep them from coming to me for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them.”

The Cultivation of the traditional Christian Virtues-
Faith, Hope, Love, Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Self Denial

Faith- “Without faith it is impossible to please God because to please God one must first believe that He exists and that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.”
Hope- “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
Love- “These three remain: Hope, faith, and love, but the greatest of these is love…”
Wisdom- “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”
Justice- “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Courage- “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Self Denial- “Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”


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The Ethics of God: A Beginners Class on Traditional Christian Ethics (Pt.1)

The Ethics of God: A Beginners Class on Traditional Christian Ethics (Pt.1) on Apologetics.com Radio

Written by Christopher Neiswonger
Saturday, 30 May 2009 00:00

What are the basic presumptions common to all "Christian" ethical systems? The moral law of God and the cultivation the traditional Christian virtues.

1. The existence of God.
2. The identity of God and the uniqueness of Christianity.
3. The veracity, historicity, and inerrancy of Holy Scripture.
4. The presentation and defense of a basic orthodoxy.
5. The promotion of a healthy spiritual life in faith and practice.
6. The understanding of a consistent Christian ethic applied to all of life.
7. Communicating the coherence and defensibility of the Christian faith with clarity, kindness, and grace to any that might be inclined to hear and teaching those that desire such how to do the same.

The Classical form for Individual and Social Justice

The Moral Law of God-
“Love the Lord your God with all your mind, heart, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself; on these hang all of the Law and the Commandments”
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“What you have done unto the least of these you have done to me.”
“Have mercy on the little children and do not keep them from coming to me for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them.”

The Cultivation of the traditional Christian Virtues-
Faith, Hope, Love, Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Self Denial

Faith- “Without faith it is impossible to please God because to please God one must first believe that He exists and that He is the rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.”
Hope- “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
Love- “These three remain: Hope, faith, and love, but the greatest of these is love…”
Wisdom- “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”
Justice- “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Courage- “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Self Denial- “Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

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Os Guinness at Trinity Law School’s God and Governing Conference

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My World Vision

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

There is a notorious sub Christian ethic floating around that implies that the care for the poor, the sick, and the persecuted is somehow a work of the State to resolve, or worse something that should not be resolved because it was determined by God as a sign of the End. Whatever the source of the confusion, the Church as the Kingdom of God on the Earth is always commissioned with social justice and beating back the effects of the fall in history. That means we care for the poor and the oppressed. They will know we are Christians by our love.

-Chris Neiswonger

Free at Last, Free Indeed: Christian Thinking on Liberation on Apologetics.com

What does Christianity offer oppressed people? What's wrong with a "preferential option for the poor and vulnerable?" What does liberation mean? Doesn't Jesus endorse an agenda of liberation in Luke 4:17-21 as he claims to fulfill the Prophet Isaiah's saying, "The spirit of the lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the lord?" The matter is complicated by the politics of race, the politics of wealth, a dalliance with socialism & a liberal rise of historical criticism vivisecting the Scriptural witness.

Lindsay Brooks hosts a discussion with Pastor Ken Jones of Greater Union Baptist Church and Associate Pastor Darryl McKillian of ACTS: A Church That Studies on the subject of how a global and omni-cultural Church that is expressed in local bodies should approach Liberation Theology, Black Liberation Theology and the Social Gospel.

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Progress in Theology - J. Gresham Machen

[F]ar from advocating progress in theology, the current pragmatism really destroys the very possibility of progress. For progress involves something to progress to as well as something to progress from. And in the intellectual sphere the current pragmatism can find no goal of progress in an objective norm of truth; one doctrine, according to the pragmatist view, may be just as good as an exactly contradictory doctrine, provided it suits a particular generation or particular group of persons. The changes in scientific hypotheses represent true progress because they are increasingly close approximations to an objectively and externally existent body of facts; while the changes advocated by pragmatist theologians are not progress at all but the meaningless changes of a kaleidoscope.

As over against this pragmatist attitude, we believers in historic Christianity maintain the objectivity of truth; and in doing so we and not the Modernists become advocates of progress. Theology, we hold, is not an attempt to express in merely symbolic terms an inner experience in different terms in subsequent generations; but it is a setting forth of those facts upon which experience is based. It is not indeed a complete setting forth of those facts, and therefore progress in theology becomes possible; but it may be true so far as it goes; and only because there is that possibility of attaining truth and of setting it forth ever more completely can there be progress. Theology, in other words, is just as much a science as is chemistry; and like the science of chemistry it is capable of advance. The two sciences, it is true, differ widely in their subject matter; they differ widely in the character of the evidence upon which their conclusions are based; in particular they differ widely in the qualifications required of the investigator: but they are both sciences, because they are both concerned with the acquisition and orderly arrangement of a body of truth.

-J. Gresham Machen - What is Faith?

Obama begins his war on the unborn

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Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters

I must be getting used to the idea that we're having girls. Finding out about twins was never a big shocker for me like it was for Jaz, I thought it was pretty awesome from the get go. Ignorance might not be a virtue but sometimes it is bliss. But it's still a bit of an adrenalin rush to think about it--of course I don't have to grow them and carry them around all day and night month after month so it's easier for me to forget about how much work it is, although I'm pretty sure I'll find out in a few months time. It still excites Jaz too. Even when baby "B" likes to stick his head--and I say "his" because there's still a possibility one is a boy because baby B keeps hiding from the ultrasound machine although the doc thinks two girls--but anyway, "B" likes to nestle his head under one of Jaz's ribs, or roll over and put a foot there when using her bladder as a trampoline grows tiresome. Despite the irritation and Jaz's toughing the whole process out by not taking any meds and still working, it brings a big smile every time the kids start moving and reminding you that they're alive and kicking, and that something special is going on in there.

But sometimes I think, "Wow! Girls?" I don't even have my wife figured out. But it's cool. After another checkup yesterday we stopped at a clothes store that had baby stuff on sale and I found myself the only male among a horde of females digging through piles of miniature pink dresses and tiny shirts with prints of butterflies and lady bugs and ponies.

I even bought a few and Jaz approved:

Christian Character

"The Bible tells us how we are to respond to those who contradict us:

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will (2 Timothy 2:24-26, KJV).

Blustery words and insulting invective are for those who have little substance to back up their position. A true Christian scholar is a lover of truth, and one does not need to adorn truth with mean-spiritedness. Calling it 'plain speaking' does little to cover up the simple fact that it is behavior unbecoming a professing Christian."

-James R. White, The King James Only Controversy p. 247

Dose of Schaeffer

The church is to be a loving church in a dying culture. How, then, is the dying culture going to consider us? Jesus says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." In the midst of the world, in the midst of our present culture, Jesus is giving a right to the world. Upon His authority He gives the world the right to judge whether you and I are born-again Christians on the basis of our observable love toward all Christians.

-Francis A. Schaeffer, The Mark of The Christian

Must the Sun Set on the West? Apologetics.com with guest Vishal Mangalwadi

Vishal Mangalwadi joins the Apologetics.com Radio Show to discuss his latest project: Must the Sun Set on the West? Commentary and analysis from one of India’s most provocative and important thinkers. Joining him in the studio are Apologetics.com staff apologist Christopher Neiswonger, Lindsay Brooks & Harry Edwards.

Vishal Mangalwadi is an international lecturer, social reformer, political columnist, and author of thirteen books. Born and raised in India, he studied philosophy at universities, in Hindu ashrams, and at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. In 1976 he turned down several job offers in the West to return to India where he and his wife, Ruth, founded a community to serve the rural poor. Vishal continued his involvement in community development serving at the headquarters of two national political parties, where he worked for the empowerment and liberation of peasants and the lower castes.

His first book, The World of Gurus, was published in 1977 by India's Vikas Publishing House, and serialized in India's then-largest weekly, Sunday. It was Mangalwadi's books, In Search of Self and India: The Grand Experiment, that first brought his works to the attention of the American public. In demand worldwide, Vishal is a dynamic, engaging speaker who has lectured in 27 countries. He enjoys simplifying complex ideas and inspiring despairing hearts with hope.

Vishal and Ruth are currently in the United States for the production of a television documentary, The Book of the Millennium: How the Bible Changed Civilization, a project inspired by Vishal and Ruth's recognition of India's need for the reforming power of the Bible.

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