The Bible Is The Only Authority For Christian Ethics

The Bible is the only authority for Christian ethics – Discuss

The Bible is a key source of knowledge for Christian ethics as, of course, the Bible itself holds all many teaching and principles from such authority’s as Jesus, although some may non-Christians argue that there are many criticisms to what the Bible has to teach, such as how the Bible is quite challenging of its own teachings and how depending on your own personal views both non biased Christians and non-religious people will create different interpretations of the Bible as a whole. And when looking at others views and principles of the Bible some may take it as relatively factually were as some may take it as more hidden messages and metaphors. Within this essay we will be comparing

As scholar D. Stephan Long says “the Bible is the universal and fundamental source of specifically Christian ethics” just as the ontological revelation as states. As well as, the ontological revelation there is also ‘ultimate moral purpose’ and ‘absolutist’ the absolutists view is that although given an inherent sense of good and evil (Romans 1:32, 2:15) humans cannot ultimately be our guide for ethics. Without an absolute standard, morality would be relative and dependent on others. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). As the Decalogue was spoken by God himself, written in stone. Based on the unchanging character of God and therefore is permanent as eternal and unchangeable. Although, many strong arguments for the authority there are also many criticisms. One being how the Bible challenges itself strongly on many issues as well as contradicting to many laws modern day society struggle to carry out e.g. capital punishment is illegal

No other commandment is greater than these. Some Christians believe love and justice is essentially the same as one another. Paul Ramsey an American Christian ethicist wrote “nothing else than love…can occupy the ground floor if Christian ethics is not to suffer fundamental alteration” he refers to agape as “the primitive idea” of Christian ethics. Jesus’s teachings on love have a rather large impact on Christians and ways in which he shows these are by things such as travelling around Israel, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and comforting this who were sad. It for him did not make it any different whether people were rich or poor, he extended the love of God to all those who came to him. Jesus also showed his love by being compassionate, he responded to the needs of those who were suffering, and he did this even on the Sabbath, and was heavily criticized for this. Although, like everything in the bible is criticized the Bible teaches us that ‘whoever shed the blood of man, by man his blood shall be shed.’ This means that if one harms another, in order to bring proper justice, one should receive what they have given. This goes against the idea of agape and forgiveness as it teaches us that we should retaliate to harmful actions. Some negatives of using love as the