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Ethical Values In The Old Testament
RELIGION 205 DR. FRANK JOHNSON 18 NOVEMBER 1996 ETHICAL VALUES IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT
How we live our lives is governed by ethics. Ethics is “human moral
conduct according to principles of what is good or right to do.” Our ethical
values today descend primarily from a Christian ethic in which “a truly ethical
decision, we are told, must be spontaneous, undirected, free - the individual's
unfettered and uncoerced response to each new decision-demanding situation.”
The ethical values of today, especially Christian ethics, borrow and carry
forward the Hebrew ethics....
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