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christian moral principles (5) Flashcards

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how can the Bible be read

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literally true and dictated by the wholly spirit, fully authoratitive but influenced by context, inspirational book but not holding authority in the day

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2 Timothy 3:16

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Bible is ‘God breathed’
God is the author of the scripture and cannot be wrong

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how does the Bible teach

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telling the story of God’s people and teaching through stories. Christians learn not to keep teh word at face value but in every day.

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bible denominations

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Calvin thought the Bible was in harmony and Catholic church says Bible points towards eternal word

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biblical contradictions

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there are a range of genres, styles of writing and contradictions which proves there cant be one writer.

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example of contradictions

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Mark 10:11, Jesus compltley against divorce and remarriage
Matthew 19:9, Jesus says divorce is permitted in the case of sexual immorality

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The Bible is a comprahensive moral guide

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  • makes sense God would give humans a way to live life and Bible must contain all
  • Bible’s moral guidelines not always welcome today but doesnt make it wrong
  • the Bible is a form of relevation so shoudlnt be rejected
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The Bible is NOT a comprehensive moral guide

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  • God’s word surely cannot be expressed in human langauge
  • Bible cannot be comprehensive as it does not cover many modern ethical issues
  • reflects societies and ways of life that no longer exist
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Jesus’ meaning of love

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love came from God, love is unconditional, love comes from within in Matthew 5, love is sacrificial
so agape makes more sense, it is christian love that reflects God’s

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Jesus and love

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love was the central rule and Jesus came to build up teh Kingdom of God abd taught this was done by understanding others.

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Cathecism paragraph 1754

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‘Circumstances of themselves cannot change the moral quality of the act’

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examples six fundamental propositions of agape

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intrinsically good, christian ruiling norm, justice

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The principle of love is sufficent to live a good life

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  • love when understood is complex enough that moral decisions can be gained
  • agape ensures christians always put people first in difficult situations
  • Jesus’ focus on agape means it must be the centre of Christian ethics
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The principle of love is NOT sufficent to live a good life

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  • over simplistic to suggest Jesus’ teachings were only about love
  • love cannot be sufficent to live a good life cause people have different interpretations
  • Pope Francis believed love was cenral but not as a moral guideline, he thought it was a persons basic character.
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deposit of the faith

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what Jesus passed onto his apostles. it is the church’s job to authentically interpretate this. “make disciples of all nations”. apolistic succession is the transfer of this knowledge onto bishops.

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magisterium

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the authority that the catholic church has to teach, held by bishops and pope

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protestants

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believe there is no required teacher but simply a clear understanding of the Bible.

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infalliable statement

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made by pope and unable to be wrong, spoken during controversy

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Cathecism

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‘the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce royal principles’

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the church has authority in an indiviual christian ethics

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  • without the church christian ethics is far too subjective and indivdual
  • it is not an indivual, it is ‘collective wisdom’ of 2000 years
  • continues process begun by Jesus about seeing problems and higlighting
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encylicals

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statements published by the pope about specific issues, francis and environment

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the church has NO authority in an indiviual christian ethics

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  • the Bible is God’s word and should be sufficent alone, any other approach denies this
  • the chirch does not have the same authority but exists to help spread message
  • God gave reason to his people and they should use their reason to know the most loving thing
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interpret of the Bible

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may be applying a past situation to current needs or understanding principles. Many think it is impossible for ethics to be based on the Bible alone as we always use reason.

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reason

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as thought devlops reason becomes formalised and threatens the church. humans are sinful and are likely to lead to different conclusions. reason differs because of context.

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catholic church and reason

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they would say the Bible and church teachings should influence our reason. they apply reason to natural law and see Bible/church and reason as 3 wats to understand Fid,

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protestants and observation

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combination approach- reason and church work as tools to interpret the Bible.

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conscience

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inner voice, perhaps God, which helps people know right and wrong. many protestants would agree and say this is different from reason.

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christians ethics are personal

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  • each decision and situation is unique and they must apply the situation to themselves
  • God gave humans free will and the ability to reason
  • ethics comes out of rules and it is up to the indivual whether they want to follow them
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christian ethics are communal

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  • christian community isnt just a group but all aspects of life take place together and build Kingdom of God
  • earliest christians modelled life as a community
  • church’s authority to teach means ethics applies to a whole community. protects church from arg that indivual reasoning can be mistaken
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propositional / non propositional revelation

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propositional: God reveals himself in truth statements
non- propositional:God does not reveal himself through truth statements, so needs to be interpreted

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christian ethics are distinctive

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  • a religion not of rules but of message Jesus, a unique understanding of God’s revelation
  • ethics based in agape could be distinctive as they are based in christian love
  • christians are called to be counter cultural and be prophets, so if ethics arent distinct they should be
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christian ethics are NOT distinctive

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  • christians who take the Bible as the only source of authority could follow rules similar to that of other religions
  • all christian ethics are similar to basic ethics everywhere
  • all ethics are designed to make a society be peaceful.
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heteronomy

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bible, church and reason to decide moral authority

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theonomy

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moral authority comes from God, which we access through the Bible

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2nd vatican council

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Bible written “under the inspiration of the divine spirit”

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