Ethics

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Christian Ethics center around the concept of Christian love. Jesus Christ taught that all Godly laws and all the teaching of the prophets which came before Christ flow from the two Great commandments;; “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." and "love your neighbor as yourself." Mark 12:28-34

To love God above all else is to acknowledge his greatness and his goodness, to want to lift him up, to love that which he loves and to want to please him in everything. To love your neighbor as yourself to to recognize the equality of all people before God and not to put yourself above (or below) anyone else.

Love for God

Love for all people

Love for creation

Creation care is a foundation of Christian ethics based on the first few chapters of the Bible.

God's love for his own creation

(called it good, very good and blessed it)

God chose to involve mankind in care for creation

(tend the garden) (Working the earth is a good thing and not a curse)

God gave the earth to mankind as an inheritance

In entrusting his creation to mankind as an inheritance man ought to exert ownership and rulership over the earth.