Moral Dilemmas

Moral Dilemmas

1. Situation Ethics

   • Jesus followed situation ethics on the Sabbath by healing someone
   • One person does not know better than the church
   • Christianity is a religion of love
     • in situation ethics, youre meant to do the most loving thing
   • Only do what will produce good
   • Bible is God's word on how to behave
     • meant to be the basis of moral decisions

2. Conscience

   • your conscience is your inner feeling.
     • its what you believe in.
   • your concience could be wrong
     • could lead to a bad consequence

3. Bible

   • it is God's word
   • it contains teaching on how to behave
     • the golden rule
     • the ten commandments
   • applies tob people of the time the bible was written
     • could argue doesnt apply to modern day issues
       • e.g. contraception