Our Christian Ethic

As you well know by now, I stay true to my morals & ethics as a Christian.  If I am to call myself a Christian, then I MUST be a Christian.  I think it is important to analyze just what that means and what the Scripture tells us.  Of course, I believe in natural law in that God imbues us with certain natural ethics and codes.  In Christianity we have the following sins that we are to deny: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.  And we as Christians have the following virtues that God expects us to live and embrace: wisdom, fairness or justice, self-control, courage, faith, hope, and charity.  These should be basic functions of humanity within the context of the Scripture. 

When I deal with people ruled by sin and resentment, they are angry, arrogant in their sin, EASILY offended when confronted with their sin, they always play the comparison game of “well look at what they do,” and they lack discipline, chase after every appetite, they justify self over others, and users of other people especially for their benefit—look at the welfare system. 

In contrast, the Christian lifestyle is VERY different.  If we are to take, embrace, espouse, and live the virtuous Christian characteristics, life and our society would be FAR different than what we see.  True Christians don’t riot, mob, protest, kill, scream, or fall apart when life gets hard.  Who would you trust?  Who would you trust with your children?  Who would you trust in your home while you were gone?  As a business owner, who would you hire?  There is an instinctive respect for those who espouse the virtues and definitely NOT the evils.

In today’s society we are told to TOLERATE everything.  There is NO standard there.  As we in society and the church remove the social and theological cost of vice and evil, we get more of it eroding the foundation of virtue.  Psychologically and theologically, I consider this to be “pattern recognition.”  Say it, do it, or allow it enough times it somehow becomes acceptable. 

Our society and the church has allowed for promiscuity, selfish behavior, again, chipping away at our very foundation.  I find it interesting to speak to so-called Christians who spend very little time in their Bibles, prayer, and only pick and choose the texts that suit their individual folly. 

Our Christian ethics are very diligent and Jesus was VERY clear in His commands and instructions throughout the Gospels.  Christian behaviors strengthen us, whereas societies so-called “issues” weaken us.  Either we corrode individual character or we build it.  If we think that cowardice in the face of social vice has no effect, we are dead wrong.  Normalizing what degrades humanity only allows for more lack of morality making it okay—tolerance.  Tolstoy once wrote “The majority of men do not think in order to know the truth but in order to assure themselves the life which they lead which is agreeable and habitual to them is the one that coincides with the truth.”  If our governance, society, and the church continue to allow in immoral lies, many more will certainly follow and we will cease to have moral governance, a moral society, and God’s church will cease to exist disregarding His commands.