Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Do the right thing~
Following the course of action that is well pleasing to God may not always be easy in a sinful and fallen world, but such obedient and even heroic options can, bu the grace of God, be found and followed even in the most extreme conditions. Such unswerving commitment to discerning and obeying the will of God-including a willingness to pay the "cost of discipleship"-- is much needed in the twentieth-century American church, where believers are all too often tempted by the comforts and compromises of the surrounding culture.
John Jefferson Davis
It is my belief that God has given us the moral framework to make the right decision in every situation. However, faith comes in when an individual finds themselves knowing what to do, but not having the strength to do it. It is my belief, at this point the individual is tested to hold and proclaim the truth even if he or she is not able to live up to God's standards. Often times people compromise and make there experience of failure the basis for truth instead holding on to the truth of God's Word. Courage is needed! The believer needs to be honest about where he or she is in relation to God's Word and to seek His Grace to empower him or her to live up to His standards and not down to our weaknesses!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
...is there such thing as right and wrong?
According to [contextual absolutism], there are many moral absolutes, not just one absolute of “love,” as in situation ethics. Situation ethics – reduces law from a statutory system of rules to the love canon alone.” However, the fundamental difficulty with the “situational approach, of course, is the absence of a definite criterion for what constitutes a “loving” course of action in any given situation.
John Jefferson Davis
Think about this in a postmodern world where each individual as the “ability” to define his or her own reality; what would hinder an individual from defining love the same way another individual would define hate?
Ant
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
First Post
This is my first post on Posterous.com; I am trying to see how this application works. I just found it today...so forgive me...I leaped before Iooked.
ant