Situation ethics does have rules and principles to abide by. However, situationists are allowed to set these general rules aside if it seems more loving to do so. Situational ethics is a teleological theory as it is mainly concerned with the outcome and if this outcome is the most loving thing. Fletcher argued that “loves decisions are made situationally not prescriptively” this statement can be accounted for by the actions of Jesus Christ himself. Christianity teaches that people should not work on the day of Sabbath as God himself didn’t and that it should be the day of rest.
Colonialists place "...the book of God's Word over the book of God's Works, and theology over psychology." (Entwistle, 2010, p. 145). Neutral parties keep psychology and theology separate for fear that one will contaminate the other. And then there are Allies, those who believe that both psychology and theology belong to God and that "all truth is God's truth". They believe in total integration and know and respect the two books of God.
After reading Romans 1-8, I never would have thought you could find these subjects in these scriptures. I basically saw the subject matter based around the character of how some believers treat other cultures outside of their race. I figured that Paul was just trying to get the Jews straighten out from mistreating the Gentiles, and not allowing them access to salvations, but I know understanding that there was a correlation between what Paul was writing and the subjects at hand. Paul was basically showing us that we had a sinful nature that our identity was in God, which we should have a serving relationship with others outside our race that we should not give into the cultures around us and we should not conform to the civilization that we live in. I fully understand now how these subjects can affect our everyday lives.
The repetition of the colloquial word “tucked” shows that the persona is insisting that is relaxed and in control further seen in his “own space”. Harsent also uses religious symbolism such as being in the tower of “retribution” which is usually where punishment is considered to be morally correct, which could indicate that the persona feels that his job is actually his duty and fully deserved. He further uses religion by being up in “the shadow of the cross” suggesting that the persona may be doing this in the name of religion, as the cross is very significant in Christianity. He also finalises by likening the persona to a “man at prayer,” which could imply that he compares his job as a sniper, as something that he is doing for god and he sees no wrong in it. As the reader we would not really associate sniping with religion as it is basically killing people.
Paul Tillich argues against the literal theologians and the social scientists as well. He says that “religion has rediscovered its true place in man’s spiritual life, namely, in its depth, out of which it gives substance, ultimate meaning, judgment and creative courage to all functions of the human spirit.” (Tillich 9) In my opinion and it may be clouded by my religion, which is Christianity, is that God does exist and one will not
TRINITARIAN CONTROVERSY (CONT’D) Reading: C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book IV (“Beyond Personality”), chapters 1-4 („Making and Begetting‟, „The Three-Personal God‟, „Time and Beyond Time‟, and „Good Infection‟) Preparation Questions: 1. How does Lewis try to make the Christian notion of the Trinity more understandable to his readers? Briefly discuss his explanation of the ideas of „begotten‟, „personalities‟, and the idea of God „beyond time‟. His explanation of the word begotten comes very easily when he says “a man begets a child, but he only makes a statue.” He makes things of the same nature as himself.
The Model of Christian Charity’s tone is more comforting and with great reason, Winthrop was trying to establish a loving comradely between the colonist. This is evident when he says that “all true Christians are of one body in Christ.” Then he compares each person to a body part and according to the sermon “The ligaments of this body are knit together by love. (Lauter 336) ” Winthrop realized that in order for the colony to succeed he had to have the colonist working as one unit especially considering the imminent dangers they were facing in the New World. He also tries to satisfy the individual by addressing the colonist concerns with wealth and social status. Winthrop assures his colonist that being rich, or poor is all part of God’s plan and everyone has a purpose in that plan.
We are not allowed to choose what we like to worship and rejected what we do not like. We cannot just worship God for what he has done but also for what he will do. The ideal state of worship is to be close to Isaiah like he was in chapter six of that book of the Bible. When we are lost we need to seek (and hope to find) the holiness of God and become aware of our sin in order to truly worship. Instead of going through the motions at church, we need to truly focus on what we are worshiping.
Beginning in chapter 12 Paul discussed how Christians are to live. In Romans 12:1 Paul urges the Christians: “in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.” Paul continuously reminds the people to live above reproach and renew their minds so that they do not become part of the world. In the entire book of Romans Paul discusses the topic of how we as Christians should live, but Moo makes a great point in our book of how chapter 12 is a more in depth teaching on this matter. Moo states that "All theology is practical, and all practice, if it is truly Christian, is theological. Paul's gospel is deeply theological, but it is also eminently practical.
in Christianity we believe that Jesus Christ is the lord and he is our savor which in Judaism they believe that there savor has not arrived yet and that he’s still coming to take them to the promise land, but some of similar thing that they have in common is that god is the creator and god, god does not have a physical form he is eternal and god and god only are to be worship. One of the most important things that they differ in is there book of worship where Christian has the Old Testament and the New Testament Judaism only read the torch. If I were to teach someone about this religion I would say it’s not very far from Christianity because the belief of being a Christian came from Judaism. They differ but not that much different from each other I guess you can say Christianity is Judaism little brother, but this is the thing