Messianic Israelite
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I made the comment last week that I was concerned about a rising number of religious people abandoning religion and calling themselves ‘spiritual’. As one person erroneously said, being spiritual doesn’t necessarily mean you believe in spirits but rather believe in living a life which isn’t carnal. Meditation, prayer, contemplation, mindfulness etc. I would include study and law-keeping in the definition but it seems many people who call themselves spiritual do not believe in these things, even though Romans 7:14 clearly states ‘the law is spiritual’, thus if we are to achieve true spirituality we have to be law-keepers.
Anyway, it got me thinking about situation ethics. The idea that depending on the situation you are in will dictate how we go about that situation and convey what ethics you should or should not adhere to. If the preservation of your life depends on taking the life of another for example, perhaps an innocent person, then would you do it, despite the sixth commandment telling us not to kill. Or what about stealing some food because without that food you may starve to death? I’m sure most people would do this in our modern day society because people do not have faith whereas the scriptures show a life where one is to love the Word more than their own lives (Revelation 12:11). Such morally fluid people in my eyes are not truly religious. They shouldn’t delude themselves by thinking that they are. Religious people should follow certain principles, even to the point of death because they have a conviction that following those principles will please the Father and bring us in to the Kingdom of Yahweh.
We’ve had a thread recently here on Religious Forums which suggests that atheists can be just as moral as religious people. We all know the story of the Good Samaritan of Luke 10, where a priest and a Levite, supposedly religious people, did not help that man attacked by robbers. However, when push comes to shove, how many atheists would abandon their loose moral code they have formulated and look after no.1 in their own eyes – themselves. To strong religious people, no. 1 is the Almighty, so we would naturally have a higher standard of living than those who do not have belief. We all should be true to ourselves and question why we do what we do. But situation ethics is what I find is going to dictate the actions of the majority of people on this earth leading to the Beast System. I don’t want to make this post about end time prophesy though, and I tend to avoid talking about it since it is to the most part a violation of Forum rules. However, we learn from the Maccabees they were those who died, sometimes whole families, because they refused to eat one bite of pork. Many were tortured. To digress somewhat, even the Roman Catholic Church tortured people in the most inhumane ways to get them to renounce their faith in the Bible.
Situation ethics might even be the characteristic of some religious people. It’s a shame because the Word of Yahweh says ‘thus says Yahweh’ i.e. Isaiah 30:15.
The first definition which I have seen for the word ‘moral’ on the internet is: “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour.” Can people who call themselves spiritual and do not adhere to the same principles in every situation be considered moral, or the same with atheists and even religious people. To go back to the example of the Good Samaritan, we as religious people are commanded to love our neighbour (Leviticus 19:18) so we should be helping out whenever we see a need as a matter of Law. Others don't have this obligation. Please discuss.
Anyway, it got me thinking about situation ethics. The idea that depending on the situation you are in will dictate how we go about that situation and convey what ethics you should or should not adhere to. If the preservation of your life depends on taking the life of another for example, perhaps an innocent person, then would you do it, despite the sixth commandment telling us not to kill. Or what about stealing some food because without that food you may starve to death? I’m sure most people would do this in our modern day society because people do not have faith whereas the scriptures show a life where one is to love the Word more than their own lives (Revelation 12:11). Such morally fluid people in my eyes are not truly religious. They shouldn’t delude themselves by thinking that they are. Religious people should follow certain principles, even to the point of death because they have a conviction that following those principles will please the Father and bring us in to the Kingdom of Yahweh.
We’ve had a thread recently here on Religious Forums which suggests that atheists can be just as moral as religious people. We all know the story of the Good Samaritan of Luke 10, where a priest and a Levite, supposedly religious people, did not help that man attacked by robbers. However, when push comes to shove, how many atheists would abandon their loose moral code they have formulated and look after no.1 in their own eyes – themselves. To strong religious people, no. 1 is the Almighty, so we would naturally have a higher standard of living than those who do not have belief. We all should be true to ourselves and question why we do what we do. But situation ethics is what I find is going to dictate the actions of the majority of people on this earth leading to the Beast System. I don’t want to make this post about end time prophesy though, and I tend to avoid talking about it since it is to the most part a violation of Forum rules. However, we learn from the Maccabees they were those who died, sometimes whole families, because they refused to eat one bite of pork. Many were tortured. To digress somewhat, even the Roman Catholic Church tortured people in the most inhumane ways to get them to renounce their faith in the Bible.
Situation ethics might even be the characteristic of some religious people. It’s a shame because the Word of Yahweh says ‘thus says Yahweh’ i.e. Isaiah 30:15.
The first definition which I have seen for the word ‘moral’ on the internet is: “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour.” Can people who call themselves spiritual and do not adhere to the same principles in every situation be considered moral, or the same with atheists and even religious people. To go back to the example of the Good Samaritan, we as religious people are commanded to love our neighbour (Leviticus 19:18) so we should be helping out whenever we see a need as a matter of Law. Others don't have this obligation. Please discuss.