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Making Biblical Decisions
Study the Bible's system of ethics and learn how Christians can evaluate problems in ways that lead to biblical solutions.
About this Lesson Series
- Instructor
- John M. Frame & Guests
- Discipline
- Practical Theology
- Course Group
- Biblical Ethics
- Download
- Course Materials, Academic Packets
This series has been redesigned and enhanced with updated graphics and professor interviews. Previous edition: 2006
Christian morality has always been challenged and rejected by unbelievers. But today even many believers have lost their moral footing. Moreover, believers who want to live ethically are frequently confused by the complexities of ethical decisions. Even so, with proper study of the Bible's system of ethics, Christians can learn how to evaluate problems in ways that lead to biblical solutions.
Series Goals
- Describe the Bible's system of morality in terms of ethical standards, goals and motives.
- Equip Christians to understand the biblical standards that apply to modern dilemmas.
Lessons in this module
- 1 Ethics in ScriptureEstablishes a definition of Christian ethics, examines the threefold criteria of good works, and presents a biblical threefold process for making ethical decisions.
- 2 The Normative Perspective: God and His WordExplores the authority of God and his Word in ethics.
- 3 The Normative Perspective: The Attributes of ScriptureExplores the proper standards for ethical decisions by investigating the divine authorship and the attributes of Scripture.
- 4 The Normative Perspective: Parts and Aspects of ScriptureExamines the different ways the various parts and aspects of Scripture communicate God's norms to us.
- 5 The Situational Perspective: Revelation and SituationFocuses on how a proper understanding of situations can help us understand God's revelation.
- 6 The Situational Perspective: Pursuing Our GoalFocuses on the overarching goal that God has laid before us, namely, the success and triumph of his kingdom as it spreads from heaven to cover the whole earth.
- 7 The Situational Perspective: Understanding the FactsIdentifies the major components of the ethical situation we encounter in the modern world and explains how each component bears on the ethical decisions we must make.
- 8 The Existential Perspective: Being GoodExplores the existential perspective by looking at the relationship between goodness and our being and focusing on how goodness relates to who we are.
- 9 The Existential Perspective: Intending GoodInvestigates the existential perspective on ethics by looking at the ways our motives and intentions affect the morality of our decisions.
- 10 The Existential Perspective: Choosing GoodExplores how Christians actually make ethical decisions; how we go about choosing good.
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