Ethics

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Christian Ethics center around the concept of Christian love. This is based on the nature and character of God, of whom the Bible says "God is love" (1 John 4:8.) Jesus Christ taught that all Godly laws and all the teaching of the prophets which came before 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)

In the context of Christian agroecology, loving God and neighbor are both expressed in creation care, since God loves and blesses his creation, including the cosmos, the earth, and it's inhabitants; all living creatures.

Love for God

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.

Worship

Love for all people

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 has many aspects, among which are boldness, gentleness and truth. Lacking any one of these, love is not complete and can be damaging. To properly love someone, truth is needed. Sometimes that means confronting someone with difficult issues and difficult truths. Confrontation can be a necessary part of love, but condemnation is not part of love. Service

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

(Genesis 1-3: God 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.

The fallen nature of man

The Christian view of God,