Embrace Biblical Ethics , Your Life Preserver
When it comes to ethics, Bonhoeffer noted, "(i)t is not only what is said that matters, but also the man who says it" (Ethics, p.267).
Third, like Aristotle, Bonhoeffer stays as close to the actual phenomenon of making moral choices as possible. What we experience, when faced with a moral choice, is a highly concrete and unique situation. It may share much with other situations, but it is, nevertheless, a distinct situation involving its own particulars and peculiarities, not excluding the fact that we are making the decisions, and not Socrates or Joan of Ark.
And finally, again like Aristotle, Bonhoeffer sees judgments of character and not action as fundamental to moral evaluation. Evil actions should be avoided, of course, but what needs to be avoided at all costs is the disposition to do evil as part of our character. "What is worse than doing evil," Bonhoeffer notes, "is being evil" (Ethics, p.67). To lie is wrong, but what is worse than the lie is the liar, for the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger
of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that "(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie" (Ethics, p.67). A falling away from righteousness is far worse that a failure of righteousness. To focus exclusively on the lie and not on the liar is a failure to confront evil.
You Must Discern And Choose God Honoring Decisions For Your Lives
Recall the Disney Children's Film, Pinocchio , where having been through all his tumultuous misadventures, his father Gipetto sits grieving at his sons bedside, , when Pinocchio , his lifeless little body starts to stir , as if in prayerful mourning Gepetto whispers audibly ,
" Pinocchio , Pinocchio , my little wooden head, your dead, dead. Put your head down , Pinocchio , your dead"
All the while Gepetto grieving , Pinocchio stirs to life from silent slumber wiggling to life and amazement , announcing in delight to all, " Father Father I'm not dead, why, I'm alive , And I'm real , I'm a . I'm a real boy."
Of course there is a real truth here , and we are rarely as alive in a spiritual sense as when we experience stress by confronting evil, that is poised by undermining our moral values.
Don't stand for it. Let us, like Pinocchio stir from slumber.
We are lulled to pacifity At the humming of the ideology via compromise .
If we are thinking that tolerant is as a virtue in this sense , we are slumbering still if we are not aroused and called to Action. "Hell in a Handbag" is pretty much the condition of things if we remain at ease. We can hardly "stir the waters" they are already a rolling boil. .
Dear fellow Christians , know your Bibles. You must practice Spiritual Disciplines such as Prayer and Fasting. Show yourself strong, a fortitude of conviction.,
Arm yourself With a Resolute purpose , that is to have your mind made up already to be accountable as men and women of Faith able minded to embrace righteousness when it is yours to do so, or reject summarily with prejudice , such moral filth that is now legislated upon our collective Consciences. .
. "Gird your minds for action "share your convictions and do not be silenced by Political Correctness , to do so will make your testimony null and void. this is exactly what the church succumb to in Germany during Nazism .
Let us be heroines and heroes of the Faith by dissenting Moral Filth, and in response modelling godly and virtuous traditional values.
Innocence must never be condemned to lies as the alternative lifestyle.
It is degrading, shameful , debilitating , and unnatural .
Save children from the Hell of spiritual darkness .
Do this for our children, they cannot do this for themselves . "
Shonda Davis July 4 2015
