The Bible As The Ultimate Authority?

[Michael]

Can The Bible Serve As The Ultimate Authority For Christian Ethics? ... Agnes

There are many ways to present Christian Ethics: Feminist theology, Postmodern Theology and Liberal Theology are some ways to approach them. The different theologies service the different issues in Christian ethics. Biblical ethics and Biblical interpretation concerning Christian ethics are one kind of methodology for approaching them. In general, we see the Bible as a guide book for a Christian concerning how they may live according to God’s law. Often questions arise which may appear to negate the validity of this belief such as
“Does the Bible give us guidelines about genetically altered food?” “Do we stone the adulterer and adulteress to death according to the Bible?” .“The Bible makes no clear statement on birth control ?” When hermeneutics and biblical interpretation and careful exegesis are overturned by source and form criticism and at the same time, we face post- modern, destructive philosophy in the contextual approach of ethics. “Can the Bible serve as the ultimate authority for Christian Ethics?”

This essay is attempting to discover how synonymous Biblical ethics are with Christian Ethics. We use a case study of “the homosexual issue” to examine the methods of Christian Ethics and Biblical ethics in dealing with this issue. This essay, finally leads us to a conclusion about the strength or weakness of the view that the Bible carries an eternal weight of authority in Christian ethics. It is suggested in the Christian Ethics hand out that there are four sources namely: Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience. So the essay will be based on that structure. We will look at Experience first, then Reason, Tradition and Scripture in this order.

I. Experience:
Homosexuality is of course not a new issue in the human history; we could look back on the Biblical period in Canaan and the Roman Empire. Homosexuality is practised by the minority in the society. Human history shows us that human society is ...

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[andrew]

My experience of the bible is that god made adam and eve not adam and steve, so homeosexual is not of being right amen

[davidinczech001]

The Bible read and applied with wisdom is the best guide I have. Because we have the Teacher with us by the Holy Spirit, as well as examples of how he dealt with real life situations that we can read in the TextBook, we can live this life with confidence, even knowing that we will make mistakes. One example of the wisdom of the Lord that I really like is the answer to a question raised above. The question was:
"Do we stone the adulterer and adulteress to death according to the Bible?"
The answer that Yeshua gave the religious people who asked him that question was awesome! He said, "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone". After a while, they all went away, leaving the adulteress and the Lord alone, and he was the only one who was without sin and the only one who could rightly judge the situation. Notice he didn't say that it was ok to sin. Adultery is wrong. The question here is, who will judge us? I'm really glad that it's him that will judge me on that day. He's the only one I can trust.

[Michael]

Some time ago I posted an article entitled " Which Way " at

www.angelfire.com/md3/pafn777/whichway.html

... which discusses the use of the Word in decision making.

[stevepugh]

The scriptures are noy Just the Ultimate authority but the Sole Authority.

God has revealed himself in the words of the prophets.

2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.


The question that l put to you is...

If the scripture is complete, what is the purpose of further revelation from modern-day prophets?


In my opinion the Apostolic gift of Prophesy (in which a person spoke or wrote 'thus saith the Lord') passed away with the completion of the NT.

Steve

[astral400]

One day soon... we wont have our Bibles, so we need to have the Word of God imprinted on our hearts and minds. We need to read it as much as we can while we can.... even tho, Christ is the most important thing.


Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.