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Conflicting Commands? (Turning the Tide)

Do God's commands ever conflict in such a way that it is impossible to obey one while not at the same moment disobeying another? If so then how should we act in such situations? Much has been made of moral conflicts by situation ethics writers such as Joseph Fletcher: Is...

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Applying the Bible (Turning the Tide)

Some wonder how can a Bible written 2,000 years ago speak to the ethical situations we face in the late 20th century, but because the Bible is God's Word, and God doesn't change (Mal 3:6) he has prepared for situations not envisaged by the original authors. The Bible was written...

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Making Ethical Decisions God's Way (Turning the Tide)

If we are honest we come to hold many the beliefs we do as a result of a combination of gut-feeling, emotion, conscience, consensus, 'consequentialism' or acceptance of authority. But how can we have our minds 'transformed' (Rom 12:1,2) and make decisions God's way? Commands and Character We are concerned with...

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Knowing the Times (Turning the Tide)

1 Chronicles 12:32 tells us about the men of Isaachar who 'understood the times' and 'knew what to do'. This training material is geared at these two ends. But we need first to be aware of what is actually happening in the world of medicine today - so here is...

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Contraception (Turning the Tide)

Some points to make: Extramarital conceptions have increased rather than decreased since the advent of contraception. Many young people don't use contraception or don't use it properly. It doesn't protect you from emotional hurt, or sexually transmitted disease (if hormonal). Some methods act after conception.

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Tips for ethical debates (Turning the Tide)

It is easy to get steamed up and emotional and lose a discussion by sheer lack of tact. Alternatively, we can win the argument but lose the person. Peter exhorts us to give an account of the hope that we have within us with 'gentleness and respect' (1 Pet 3:15)....

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Ends and Means (Turning the Tide)

Does the end ever justify the means? Secular ethicists classically divide ways of making ethical decision-making into two categories: deontological and consequentialist. The deontologist judges an action right or wrong on the basis of whether it conforms to a set of rules or principles. Immanuel Kant was one of the...

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Interpreting the Bible (Turning the Tide)

Understanding God's word is a life-long task and we are all on a journey in our understanding. But there are some general principles, which will help us not to make too many errors. 1. Scripture is authoritative as originally given. Translations which distort the original meaning of the text do not...

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Making Ethical Decisions the World's Way (Turning the Tide)

It's useful to review the ways that non-Christians make ethical decisions, not just so that we can understand others better, but because many Christians fall into exactly the same traps in the ways they come to develop their own opinions. Gut feeling - It just feels right In a society as...

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cmf file 3 (1998) - Christian views on ethics ()

Discovering God's will When Christians make decisions about what is right and wrong their underlying rule is that what God wants and says is best. This does not necessarily lead to their conclusions being wildly different from those who leave God out of the equation. The Christian explanation is that...

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