Assignment on Christian Morality

Running head: CHRISTIAN MORALITY
CHRISTIAN MORALITY
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Morality is essential to life. It is a concept according to which people can judge their
actions and behaviour as good or bad. Decision-making in righteousness includes
consciousness that is reasonable and intuitive. Morality guides a person when his
stereotypical thinking no longer assists him/her (Erhard, Jensen and Zaffron 2017). The world
is made up of diverse culture, religion and faiths. Every religion such as Buddhism,
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and others, follow their pattern of decision-making. For
centuries they have been making their decisions and formulating them into norms of morality
(Herbert 2017). The norms have kept changing and developing for people to avoid making
mistakes. The believer is independent enough to make some decisions and choices in faith
Technological and scientific advancement has increased the responsibilities of individuals to
make moral decisions. Religion and morality have always been intertwined. The essay aims
at discussing the Christian morality and how the latter cannot always be applied in today’s
scenario.
Christianity is followed widely all over the world, and it is primarily based on the
teachings of Jesus. Christians believe in the concept of one God, and he has created the entire
universe (Percy 2016). God then sent his son Jesus to wipe out the worries and suffering of
people on the earth. The holy book of Christians is the Bible where God has laid down his
commandments. They also have a sacred Scripture that says that Jesus is in the Father and the
latter is within the Son. The Scripture also talks about different services to one God
(Patterson 2016). The Bible helps Christians to make their daily decisions and ease their pain.
The Gospels have always been looked up by the Christians for moral guidance. Christianity
is driven by morals that have been laid in the Bible. Morality, as well as religion, are
interconnected in the Hebrew Bible as God’s command (Bird 2017). The commands are laid
down in the first chapter of Genesis, which is considered to be the first principles of morality,
where God says ‘Let there be Light’ then after he made the animals he gain commanded ‘Be

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fruitful and multiply’. God is trying to tell his people that he will assist them if they obey his
commands with honesty. The example of Adam and Eve is given to show that disobeying
God will lead to sin. It focuses on the kingdom of God and if people hoped for this kingdom,
they need to establish a new relationship with God. The God about whom Jesus is talking is a
close reality. One can feel his presence while praying and while taking the correct decision
(Dombrowski 2016). The God of Jesus believes in encouraging growth and provide healing
even in unlikely situations. By entering into this kind of relationship with God, one can lead a
life full of morals. The primitive Church emphasised on the need to spread the love for all. In
the New Testament Jesus talks about two commandments which is one of the morals of
Christianity. The first command was to love God with all mind, heart, and soul. The second
command was to love the neighbour as a person loves himself/herself (Bretherton 2017).
Jesus also asks his people to love their enemies and forgive them “...Love your enemies,
bless them that curse...”. Therefore the principle of morality for Christians is to love God and
love the neighbour (Hunt 2017). One of the underlying Christian moral was the belief that
everyone is made in God’s image. However, abiding by the commands of the Bible is not
always possible in the advancing environment of today. When people are in a moral dilemma,
they still look up to the Bible for a solution. They tend to open the first Scripture that they can
glance and tries to act upon it. For instance, the Bible mentions, “If your right eye should
cause you to sin, tear it out...” but no one would be following this advice. This does not
mean that the person is going against the religion or has disobeyed God. Discerning the
moral guidance mentioned in the Bible is not always an easy task. People need to understand
and make out the difference between the setting in which specific moral teaching was taught
and the present scenario (Rogerson 2016).
Morality in the middle ages was primarily influenced by priest and confessors as
well as the rediscovered Roman law. Confessors were assisted by help where they were