The Ethics Of Moral Relativism

Our world today has fallen into the trap of thinking that believing whatever you want is okay. That it is acceptable for everyone to have their own right and wrong, and on the flip side, has made Christianity out to be this fairy tale religion that has no evidence to back it up. We as Christians need to be ready and able to defend our faith, all the while in a diplomatic and non hostile way. In order for us to do this, we need to understand evidentialism, basic beliefs, the Sensus Divinitatis, and who and what the skeptics are saying. The belief in Evidentialism has grown widely throughout the people in our world.

In my opinion, Fielding’s Tom Jones human nature and morality, although seen as “unacceptable” at times relates to forgiveness in Christianity. Jones is seen as a gentleman in the end even with his lack of abstinence. Writers have faced natural law in literature since the beginning. This moral debate is seen in countless novels, expanding with the progression of the novel. Although it’s due to the emergence of Christianity that natural law develops into Christian common law.

There is no question that Martin Luther is one of the most prominent figures in the Church history, and especially in Western history. His doctrines were a large driving force of the Protestant Reformation. Protestantism was largely shaped by the doctrines of scripture and salvation from Luther. While Luther was very critical of the Catholic Church, he kept a distance from the radical beliefs of other reformers. It’s amazing to see all that transpired from a man just wanting to stand up for what he believed about God, us and salvation.

This practice of thinking about others before ourselves is most definitely common in the Christian practice. In the Journal of Religion, the main point in the beginning of the article was defining the word agape. Agape is the Greek word to describe the unmotivated love of God for an unworthy man, which flows out with no trace of self-seeking from God (Goodenough). The Christian understanding of agape involves unconditional acceptance, and a concern for others. It’s a love which is communicating care through attitude and as well as physical presence.

The Judeo-Christian heritage is awe-inspiring about forgiveness (Exodus 34:9, 34: 6-7; Matthew 18: 23-25). This is not an essay about hidden Church History, the major assumptions which the Bible long ago rendered conventional for any careful religious use of the term forgiveness in the Jewish and Christian traditions (Shriver, 1998). It is important to recall the central purpose of forgiveness in a theological and pastoral context it was originally for the benefit of the nation and of human kind in general (Anchor Bible Dictionary, 2:835). Christians and Jews have a moral and ethical responsibility not only for their “vertical” relationship with God but also for their “horizontal” relationship with one another, and this, in turn leads to a great social benefit (Couper, 1998). Forgiveness concurrently assumes the commission of an evil act by one representative against another and the effort of the victim to repair the relationship broken by sin.

Both Catholics and Protestants affirm he was not only right about a great deal, but he changed the course of Western history for the better. Luther saw how the Old Testament law against idols and the New Testament emphasis on justification by faith alone are essentially the same. He said that the Ten Commandments begin with two commandments against idolatry. It is because the fundamental problem in law-breaking is always idolatry. In other words, we never break the other commandments without first

As it was mentioned above, culture and religion were the core topics of these literary works. Although all three main characters were trying to follow their own moral principles, cultural, and religious principles, they had several common features. Firstly, they all were real Christians who were ready to suffer for their sins. Allen argued that “The first-person and chronicled narratives present the captives as Christian subjects, who as patient sufferers came to serve God’s purpose by demonstrating curative and superhuman marvels wrought in his name” (“Naked and Alone” 14). Feeling a strong desire to become exemplary Christians, they had no moral right to complain and show fear or weakness.

Bill McKibben in his essay “The Christian Paradox. How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” unmasks the paradox underlying Americans' Christianity. The ambiguity lies in the fact that the US is the most allegedly Christian among all developed nations and yet Americans remain the least Christian in their behavior. The author exposes American Christians for who they genuinely are providing numerous examples to validate his thesis, which states that the notion of being a good and dutiful Christian perceived by most Americans has in fact little to do with Jesus' teachings. McKibben manages to avoid harsh judgment or criticism, choosing to simply discuss the degradation of faith, allowing himself to be at times slightly sarcastic or ironic.

Michael Ignatieff believes that, for one to truly fit in with their peers, they must apprehend to the unspoken codes that reside among them. These unspoken rules are frankly actions and thoughts that society believes are unacceptable and shouldn't be preformed. As easy as it may sound, many characters throughout literature and people of today’s generation find following these unspoken rules quite difficult, mainly due to the fact that these codes are never vocalized, but expected of all. Unspoken rules, or tacit codes, are destructive to young people’s creativity and individuality as they produce the unsatisfactory results of a homogenous society. In J. D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caulfield doesn’t follow the restrictive tacit codes that were set in place during the 1950s, mainly due to

On one hand, I agree that telling a white lie is fine when no harm is caused to the individuals involved. Whether it is to spare their feelings, avoid conflicts, or to simply maintain the harmony of a relationship, white lying is tolerable to an extent. On the other hand, I am not sure if everyone knows how to distinguish the borderline between an honest fib and a purposefully deceiving lie. Just as Paterson noted, we only get offended when someone tells us a lie. Only then do those tiny lies discomfort us, yet we all continue to do