This is why God created a universe fit for human life, and why he laid down guidelines for how to live our lives. According to Christianity, each one of us is created for communion with God; God wants to know us, to love us, and to rejoice with us. Examples in the Bible are Proverbs 19: 21 and Ephesians 3: 20. The most basic principle of the Christian moral life is the awareness that every person bears the dignity of being made in the image of God. He has given us an immortal soul and through the gifts of intelligence and reason enables us to understand the order of things established in his creation.
In Genesis 2:7, gives more detail of the making of man and how he became a living being. Therefore taken from scripture God created man. The Christian/Biblical worldview of identity is given in Jeremiah 1:5, God knew who we were before he formed us. In Jeremiah 29:11, God has made a plan for everyone. The morals of an individual leads him/her on the path of good or evil.
(Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other Gods me.) I would answer the Teleological question by saying, “We are the Kingdom of God, and because we belong to God’s Kingdom we have purpose and destiny on my life. Since God has purpose on our lives that means he has a plan. Jeremiah 29:11 states, “I know the thoughts I think towards you thoughts of good and not of evil to give you an expected
In order to be served, we must first learn to serve. We need to submit, totally, to the person God leads us to in order to build us up. Learning to be humble and to deal with the temptations brought before us by means of trusting God’s grace, we can have the free life of an armorbearer. “The spirit of an armorbearer is the spirit of Christ. It is the heart of a servant”.
Nurture is the cause to our behavior as well as characteristics, even though genes are what give us that certain spunk to our personalities, the environment has the power to alter it and make us into the exact opposite, as some say. “Nature vs. Nurture, Guirguis Shady; 2004” In conclusion, nature and nurture are tied in together in ways that many of us so not see, but only at times when it is pointed out to us, then we may begin to think which is which again? The nature and nurture are both very important in the study of human development, and without the other, does no justice to the creation God had made to design the human developmental process. Our genes are important because we inherit them and that makes us apart of our family, give us connection, helps us to understand what kind of person we are and even maybe why, but the environment has the influence to alter and also help to develop us in additional ways from our genetics. It is my thought that even the Bible is an environmental influence, one that can help us to become all that God has created us to be, as we willingly submit to His Truth as the Truth of God’s Word.
A wrath that could be as simple as facing turmoil or tragedy in your life or in the life of a loved one. On page 66 there is a chart that shows morality of hot-buttons. I agree with each of those categories and where they lie under the Authoritative God column. Our Bibles, which are the ultimate guide to the life that God wants for each of us, tells us how to live our lives. God created man and woman so that they would have each other as partners, the same as each animal.
For example, Mark 12:31 states, “ …’You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’” as Jesus’ proclamation of human relationships with one another and God. The biblical worldview acknowledges that God created man in His own image. Therefore, man should also value human relationships that are similar to their own valuation of God. This realization is vital to the biblical worldview. Otherwise, self-serving human relationships stand in our way of becoming one with Jesus Christ and go against the Word of
Thus, he believes there is no reason why should you live a moral life rather than for one's self. Fidley asks Seltzer one last question, “what motivation for adopting the moral point of view can you possibly offer without a belief in God and immorality?” which leads us to this quote, “When religion tells us that there is nothing more we can say about morality than that we can’t see the reasons for it, but do it if you know what’s good for you, then I do condemn it. We can do better than that. We can become moral grown-ups. And if there were a God, surely he would approve”.
“Together with a knife, board, table, and chair, you are the constituents of a place in the highest sense of the world. This is a session, a meeting, a society of things” (Capon, 11). The meaning Robert Capon was trying to get across was, no matter how small things may be we can always see the presence of God. He gave us these treasures on earth, so that we may be able to cherish them and be able to experience Him through it. Capon talks about how man was created in God’s image, if God looks at his creation as what it was meant to be, then as men our vision should be the same.
Mankind was created in God’s image, with God’s breath. He created man with a purpose, “for good works, which God prepared ahead of time, so that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). God has been involved with His creation since the beginning, even before. God has always been involved with His creation. He is personal and wants relationships with His creation.