“Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom. 13:10 NIV). Love Love is not a feeling, it is the act of the will. It is aiming to choose the highest good of others equally with our own. Harm The purpose of the moral law is to eliminate…
Category: Ethics
Ethics – What we do.
Ordination of Women
“There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). If there are neither male nor female in Christ Jesus, then why do we segregate women from the ministry? Apostle to the Apostles…
American Fascists for Christ
Political historian Robert Paxton defines fascism as: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cultures of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elitist, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with…
Power is Poison
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – Lord Acton When Christians take power into their own hands, terrible things are done in the name of God. Shameful deeds of persecution, torture and killing. History has demonstrated that nothing is as dangerous as the joining of…
Selfishness is Sin
He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the…