Moral dilemma

Moral dilemma

1. Bible

   • positive
     • its a good guidance to humans about making decisions
     • teachers how humans should behave e.g. the Decalogue (the ten commandments)
       • the good samaritan
     • Its the word of god
   • negative
     • it was written by humans that had no sense of the world like we do now
     • people think that the bible needs to be change for the modern world
     • it only applies to religious people

2. church

   • positive
     • the church is the body of Christ
     • the church is influence by old people
     • the church is guided by god
   • negative
     • might be prejudice
     • it might be teaching out of date beliefs
     • run by old men

3. situation ethics

   • positive
     • jesus followed situation ethics so people should follow him
     • people think that you will have to do what is good results e.g. such as stealing nuclear weapons from terriorist and letting the 12 year old to have an abortion
     • love: people should always do what will have the most loving results.
   • negative
     • they think the church knows better than the individual Christian
     • people think they should follow the ten commandments rather than there own conscience

4. conscience

   • negative
     • people think they have heard the voice of god to do very bad things, they could be mistaken about the voice of god.
   • positive