Writing Our Own Moral Code

Trevor Grant Thomas.com ^ | 3/9/2016 | Trevor Grant Thomas

[DWW1990]

At The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (of the Southern Baptist Convention), a recent blog post details the "Six principles of a Jesus-centered moral order." The post is an excerpt from a recent book co-authored by David Kinnaman, the president of Barna Group, a Christian research and communications company.

The piece notes that, "in the twentieth century, more and more people began to see Christian morality as standing in the way of a new moral code: the morality of self-fulfillment. Throwing off burdensome traditional mores, people began to imagine life without a bothersome God standing watch." The post also reveals new research that "highlights the extent to which Americans pledge allegiance to the new moral code, which can be summed up in six guiding principles."

[johniegrad]

Not much to argue with here but I doubt we needed “ a Christian research and communications company” to tell us this.

[DWW1990]

I was (sadly) surprised by the response of so-called Christians.

[pilgrim]

I do have a 'belly button' too!! But to not contemplate when looking at it!

[sparklite2]

[johniegrad]

Don’t be. It’s a matter of culture and catechesis.

[pilgrim]

The posters there also wonder about Trump.

MomOf4Blessings • 6 minutes ago

I wonder how Trump would answer the survey.

[DWW1990]

Mr. Thomas has given his thoughts on Trump more than once:

http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2016/02/god-conservatism-and-donald-trump.html

http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2016/01/america-shouldnt-gamble-with-donald.html

[pilgrim]

I agree with him!!!

Past actions were at one time what was used to predict future predictions. Not in this case.

Take care, hope to see you around!!!

[Chode]

kinda like situational ethics

[Secret Agent Man]

Thats a nice way to frame it. Self fulfillment.

What they truly mean is self-centeredness. In other words, do whatever the hell i want.

And that is actually the credo of the genuine satanist. Do what thou wilt. Some say they add on something abput doing no harm, but the term harm is left undefined, to be subjective.

[Secret Agent Man]

Situational ethics == moral relativism

[Chode]

100%

[DWW1990]

Ha! As Mr. Thomas has noted (http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2014/02/same-sex-marriage-paganism-founders-and.html), “Do what thou wilt” is also the “credo” of one of the major U.S. political parties.

Another way of “framing it:” Everybody Wants to Rule Their World (http://www.trevorgrantthomas.com/2015/08/everybody-wants-to-rule-their-world.html)

[imardmd1]

Describes on what part of the trajectory to decadence we are on, as a nation and on the "Christian part thereof.

Time for "Christians" to wail for their lack of living up to the title so people can know what Jesus really was like, and how He hates sin.