The Beatitudes are the moral teachings from Jesus Christ that appear in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:3-12 and Luke 6:20-23. They deal with ethics, attitudes, and ultimate 'blessings' related to the conditions of people's hearts and actions. Matthew has nine...
A lot of people wonder why we Christians advocate absolute morals and are so against subjective morality. Many times moral relativists will complain when we hold their ethical feet to the fire, especially when they express indignation at what God does in the Old...
What is evil? Evil is that which is contrary to the will of God and which is of malevolent intent. It is a moral category. It is what is immoral and counter to God's holiness. There are different ways in which evil can be defined. But, biblically speaking, it is...
I was in an atheist controlled voice chat room listening to their dialogue about why God doesn't exist, typical stuff. However, one particular atheist said that morality should be based on empathy. I then chimed in and asked why morality "ought" to be based on...
Whether or not Christians should attend homosexual weddings is a sensitive topic. From what I see in Scripture, a Christian should not attend such a wedding since it would risk being support and approval of something that is against God (Lev. 18:22; Rom. 1:26-27; 1...
The reason it is necessary to appeal to God for objective morals is that without Him, we can't justify universal moral obligation. But, before we go further we need to answer two questions. Morals are abstractions, not found under rocks, or a laboratory. They are "of...
Moralism has different meanings, but in relation to Christianity, it is the practice of keeping various moral laws so as to please God and obtain and/or maintain one's salvation. Moralism is similar to legalism where keeping the Old Testament commandments is advocated...
Moral nihilism, which is also known as ethical nihilism, is the view that within ethics nothing is inherently moral or immoral. "Nihilism" means "nothing," so with such nihilists there is no right and wrong, other than what is assigned by people. This would also mean...
Divine command theory is the position that an action is good or bad based on whether or not it is commanded by God. Therefore, to do what is good is to do what God commands. An action is good merely because God commands that it is good, and bad because he commands...
Is it wrong for a Christian to just go to a casino to eat, not to gamble? Christianity is not a religion of rules but of grace. We cannot please God with our attempts to follow a set of rules. That is what the Pharisees did, and it led to self-righteousness, which...