How do Christians determine morality?

[jack_hawkins]

And so, why have many Christians today accorded themselves the privilege of EITHER not needing to obey the Commandments and all the teachings on morality as written in the Bible… OR to individually interpret these laws based on “modern-day” considerations?

NONE?

 

[Jayda]

You are holding on to the teachings of your faith.

I can certainly respect that.

My comments about the ‘Aisha’ thread was regarding those Christians who judge the morality of others by not relying on the teachings that is written in their own scriptures.

I find that very odd.

hola hamba2han,

it is difficult for me to answer your questions since i do not know what specifically you are referring to… like whether the people you are talking about are Cartholic, and whether they were talking about Aisha or something else…

if there were Protestants or something that were referring to their bibles and translations i cannot answer…

but the Vulgate correctly interpreted according to Roman Catholic Church teachings could not possibly allow what happened to Aisha, if that is specifically what you are talking about. for Catholics both of these things must be so for an opinion or observation based in scripture to be correct…

i think in a general sense if somebody is making a judgment about a sin according to something other than their religion, they need to reconsider whether they accept the faith they profess…

Dios te bendiga

 

[exoflare]

And so, why have many Christians today accorded themselves the privilege of EITHER not needing to obey the Commandments and all the teachings on morality as written in the Bible… OR to individually interpret these laws based on “modern-day” considerations?

That’s the problem - you assume you know which things in the Bible are universal moral commandments, and which things were temporary disciplines or were only moral stepping-stones toward ultimate morality. In reality you have no idea, but since you’re only here to get a rise out of people it probably doesn’t matter to you anyway.

 

[exoflare]

That’s the problem - you assume you know which things in the Bible are universal moral commandments, and which things were temporary disciplines or were only moral stepping-stones toward ultimate morality. In reality you have no idea, but since you’re only here to get a rise out of people it probably doesn’t matter to you anyway.

My bad… I should have mentioned you think that EVERYTHING in the Bible must be a strict legalistic moral commandment for all time. No other kind of book can exist, right?

 

[Sixtus]

To the un-trained eye (read: non-moslem) these two verses only “appear to contradict”

Why is it that on this forum there are always those who seek to persecute moslems. What is the obsession with dismantling and offending their sacred book?

Do we have the right to do that?

 

[exoflare]

Why is it that on this forum there are always those who seek to persecute moslems. What is the obsession with dismantling and offending their sacred book?

Do we have the right to do that?

You have a very loose definition of “persecute”, apparently.

 

[Gottle_of_Geer]

I would have thought that they would refer to the teachings of Christianity as found in the Bible in order to determine whether something is morally right or not.

However, after reading the comments of Christians in threads such as ‘Aisha’, I just cannot believe that these people are referring to the Bible when deciding matters of morality.

In a number of ways, & in no particular order:

• God’s grace
• the Bible
• the Christian tradition generally
• the teaching of our own communions
• the witness of conscience
• prayer
• doctrinal declarations
• the overall shape of Christian teaching
• the advice of those we trust as experienced & reliable helpers, whether clergy or otherwise
• spiritual reading
• reason

• things like that. As the Bible says, “A threefold cord is not easily broken” - we don’t rely on any one thing, but on a “constellation” of things; not conscience alone, nor reason alone, nor anything else alone, but on all together; not that we always do so consciously; in any decision, any behaviour, people are influenced by all manner of things they aren’t aware of. The things mentioned re-inforce & supplement & feed & correct one another; they are none of them isolated.

And FWIW, it’s important not to over-intellectualise human activity; we are not intellects (though we have them), but unities of soul & body: not intellect alone, not body alone, but a union of the two. Which affects how & what we do & think. ##

 

[guanophore]

We are to follow what God has told us in the Bible in order to know right from wrong. 2 Tim 3:16 refers to the Bible as that which is inspired,(God breathed). Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us that the teaching magesterium of the church or that traditions are inspired of God. Read God Word, the Bible, and it will show you what is pleasing to God. :bible1:

Where did your bible come from?