Bible Foundation For Christian Morality Research Paper
Bible as a Reliable Foundation for Christian Morality
As a Christian, I believe that the bible is the ultimate truth. The bible is basically a set of rules as to how we live our everyday lives. This is the point I will highlight in this essay and I will describe how it affects us as humans. But what is morality? Morality is the way in which people live their lives and the way we act towards other people. These are set out as rules in the bible and Christians follow this as a basis for living.
In the Bible, it talks about the different tasks set by God to different people such as Abraham, Moses and Noah. They all obeyed gods rules and regulations and even though they seemed impossible at the beginning, they turned out …show more content…
I believe that this is a very useful story as it is encouraging to Christians to go out and to spread Gods word to people.
My second example is the man who built his house on the rock. It is from Matthew 7:24-27 24"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." This verse is talking about the clever man who gave his life to God, and when bad times come, he will stand firm because he has god to support him. But the foolish man who gives his life to material possessions will have troubles in tough times, for there is nobody there to help him. This is probably the most important verse …show more content…
Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper.
'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.' I love this passage. It is a very clear image of a very important subject. It shows us how to help and be loving to other people. In those days, Samaritans were hated by the people of Jerusalem so this is a very good example of how we should care for our enemies as we would want to be cared for. Jesus set us this task so that the world we live in could be a better place, but as
God created people with the privilege of free will, most people choose not to follow this.
Most of the laws we live by today are based on the Ten Commandments.
God had told Moses to write his commandments on two stone tablets and these were to be obeyed by his people. Some basic laws that everyone knows to be followed are things like you shall not steal, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, and these come from the Ten
Commandments. So the Ten Commandments are an excellent basis for
As a Christian, I believe that the bible is the ultimate truth. The bible is basically a set of rules as to how we live our everyday lives. This is the point I will highlight in this essay and I will describe how it affects us as humans. But what is morality? Morality is the way in which people live their lives and the way we act towards other people. These are set out as rules in the bible and Christians follow this as a basis for living.
In the Bible, it talks about the different tasks set by God to different people such as Abraham, Moses and Noah. They all obeyed gods rules and regulations and even though they seemed impossible at the beginning, they turned out …show more content…
I believe that this is a very useful story as it is encouraging to Christians to go out and to spread Gods word to people.
My second example is the man who built his house on the rock. It is from Matthew 7:24-27 24"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." This verse is talking about the clever man who gave his life to God, and when bad times come, he will stand firm because he has god to support him. But the foolish man who gives his life to material possessions will have troubles in tough times, for there is nobody there to help him. This is probably the most important verse …show more content…
Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper.
'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.' I love this passage. It is a very clear image of a very important subject. It shows us how to help and be loving to other people. In those days, Samaritans were hated by the people of Jerusalem so this is a very good example of how we should care for our enemies as we would want to be cared for. Jesus set us this task so that the world we live in could be a better place, but as
God created people with the privilege of free will, most people choose not to follow this.
Most of the laws we live by today are based on the Ten Commandments.
God had told Moses to write his commandments on two stone tablets and these were to be obeyed by his people. Some basic laws that everyone knows to be followed are things like you shall not steal, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, and these come from the Ten
Commandments. So the Ten Commandments are an excellent basis for