Moral Principles Revision Guide A02 Flashcards

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the Bible alone is sufficient for Christians to lead a moral life

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  • Church tradition has sometimes been corrupt
  • e.g. Protestant reformers argued the Church was too interested in wealth/power
  • the bible is needed to form judgements about whether Church teaching is sound
  • human reason is faulty as a result of the Fall, the Bible is needed to override human reason
  • Bible stories of Jesus and his teaching are the full and final revelation of God
  • the Bible gives commandments, moral exemplars, wisdom literature and advice that is timeless and transcends culture
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the Bible alone is not sufficient for Christians to lead a moral life

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  • cannot be read without interpretation
  • interpretation needs guidance from the Church and from reason
  • The Bible was written long ago and there needs to be Church teaching and moral reasoning to see how to apply its teachings to the modern world
  • some biblical teaching not applicable to the modern world at all like witches
  • has contradictions and inaccuracies which make it an unreliable source
  • people who rely on Biblical teaching tend to cherry pick certain verses and ignore others - there needs to be a further source of authority to keep a check on this
  • biblical teaching can be interpreted in too many different ways
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Christiane ethics are distinctive

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  • Bible is a distinctive text which perhaps marks Christians apart from others
  • sets Christians apart from Utilitarian approaches which begins with human desire
  • Kantian ethics has no place for the Bible
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christian ethics are not distinctive

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natural law has no place for the Bible but does not require it to interpret the moral messages available through reasoned reflection on creation

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christians ethics are personal

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  • morals should be about the individual
  • if Jesus is a model for Christians they should be willing to look at the situation they are in as individuals and look to respond in a loving way rather than prescriptive or legalistic - he broke laws to keep his own ethical code
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christian ethics are communal

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  • bible is a book for the people not person of God
  • you cannot examine scripture in a vacuum
  • interpret it through particular traditions
  • community of faith has claim over particular individuals
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the principle of love is sufficient to live a good life

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  • hard to imagine a good life without love
  • communities have traditionally agreed to cooperate on agreed rules- where Church tradition and community come in to help everyone have a voice
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the principle of love is not sufficient to live a good life

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  • even Tillich thought love needed careful explanation
  • love is a complex idea
  • perhaps to reduce justice and honesty etc to love is to simplify them unreasonably and misses the point of what love is
  • different interpretations of love
  • love could motivate people to be individualistic and selfish - dangerous precedent in allowing rules to broken for loving reasons
  • how would I know when i am been tempted bu sin when I use love to justify an illicit relationship
  • Mouv just because there is one biblical commandment of love doesn’t meant there isn’t other commandments
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