ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF TAGUM, INC.
Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines
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Scripture in Morality
As we go through life, we come to realize more and more our dependence on Christ.
This increasing realization of God’s power and our own littleness is an indication of growth in
our spiritual life. It means that we are coming to understand, through experience, that we need
God’s help at every step. Christ has told us that he is the way, the truth, and the life. It is logical,
then, that we should walk in the way pointed out to us by Christ in the gospel.
Christian Moral Life must be situated to both Jesus the Christ and the Gospel that Jesus
lectures at God's order, and which is given on to the entire Church. We accept that the Bible
originates from God. Nonetheless, when we apply the Bible to our ethical insight and moves we
have to make uncommon consideration that we have an appropriate comprehension of us what
is mean by alluding to the Bible as the uncovered expression of God.
We do not consider the Bible disclosure since we accept by one way or another God
directed its substance in the same words to different creators. We hold the Bible as holy in view
of what it uncovers to us about what god's identity is. To live in adjustment to the picture of God
we need to rehearse on-going wisdom of God's Spirit to ensure that we are reacting as best as
possible to the one and genuine God, and not loving some bogus picture of God.
The Bible is neither planned to be a standard book nor a specialized manual of the
ethical life. Consideration regarding center, setting, and rationality can assist us with staying
open to the Spirit of God that keeps on addressing us through both the Scriptures and in the
different indications of our occasions. Sacred text does not call us to have God's spot-on earth
as judge and scrutinizer of individuals' souls.
The most noteworthy moral obligation of a Christian is equivalent to the best charge:
love God and love your neighbor. Sacred writing is the Christian expert for morals, similarly all
things considered for religious philosophy. This is on the grounds that God is our definitive
position and standard, for he himself is goodness. While Christians realize God's character
through understanding Scripture, unbelievers can somewhat and defectively comprehend what
is acceptable through the made request and their still, small voices. And keeping in mind that
Christians at last get their morals from Scripture, various pieces of Scripture like the Mosaic
legitimate code must be perused in their redemptive recorded setting and not just applied
starting with one inaccessible culture then onto the next.
Philosophical frameworks that endeavor to give moral standards can be useful for the
Christian pondering morals, yet Scripture must remain the expert for any Christian moral
undertaking. At last, while there are numerous issues today that the Bible does not talk
legitimately to, there are scriptural rules that can be depended upon to make an educated good
judgment.
The best use of the discipline in history of interpretation should be strictly for comparison
and stimulation of further thought. It would be hazardous in the extreme in my view, to suggest
that the history of interpretation represents a progression analogous to the progressive
revelation found in the Bible. Rather I think the history of interpretation represents a cycle, with
periodic returns to a biblical position, followed by regression into confusion. The only way to tell
which eras were faithful to the truth is to compare their doctrine to the Bible. That being the
case, there seems to be no point in viewing their teaching both as that which is measured, and
that which it is measured by.
In addition, I find it impossible to admit that there is any source of special revelation
other than the Bible itself. Other sources may help us check our reasoning to see if we have
properly interpreted the Word.
