Ethics

Introduction There is a growing ideology that gender identity is not determined by biological sex (i.e., features of the body) but rather by one’s internal sense of being male, female, both, or something in between. For those who subscribe to such ideology, one is not born with gender but with a...

The question of suicide has gained a new urgency in our society because it has become a public health problem. The fact that in some countries, physician-assisted suicide is legalized or even societally condoned raises important questions for the Christian believer and how to relate to it. For ...

The Bible & LGBTQ Adventists: A Theological Conversation About Same-Sex Marriage, Gender, and Identity Alicia Johnston. N.P.: Affirmation Collective, 2022. 358 pp. ISBN:978-1-68489-439-0. USD 24.95. The new book by Alicia Johnston, The Bible & LGBTQ Adventists , in fourteen chapters, plus an ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the ability to complete complex tasks in a matter of seconds and makes available democratized and easily accessible knowledge for many people. It also is an excellent tool for overcoming any creative block. On the other hand, it can complete complex tasks without ...

Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View Preston Sprinkle. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2023. 237 pp. USD 19.99. There are available on the market a fair number of books that address the issue of homosexuality from a biblical-Christian...

We live in a digital age where our lives are influenced in significant ways through social media. The digital revolution has powerfully transformed how we communicate. Instead of communicating personally through live, in-person interaction with others, we are getting increasingly accustomed to a...

War is an everyday reality that no longer happens remotely: it is played out in our living rooms and over the breakfast table, thanks to embedded reporters, smartphones, and the Internet. Adventists and Military Service, an initiative of the Inter-European Division Biblical Research Committee, is...

In a time when wars and war-like conflicts are on the global rise, and an increasing number of Seventh-day Adventists are voluntarily joining the military, there is an urgent need to reflect more fully on some distinctive challenges that military service poses for the Adventist faith. While nati...

This presentation probes the relationship between Christian eschatology and Jesus’ ethics. The central theoretical idea is that the moral resources for Christian decision-making, derived from the life and teachings of Jesus, motivate moral living in the present moral order by detailing present and futuristic rewards. This paper addresses five interrelated sub-categories within the ethics of Jesus: personal ethics, social ethics, political ethics, religious ethics, and business ethics. After examining the nature of these sub-categories of Jesus’ ethics, this presentation concludes that the eschatological consciousness of Christian ethics is revealed more clearly in Jesus’ ethics. By implication, therefore, the article recommends that desire to be part of God's plan for humanity's ultimate future ought to inspire moral living in the here and now.

Eschatology inevitably casts a moral vision—generating a corresponding ethic and giving promise of offering a unity of life and the possibility of total fulfillment. Revelation’s eschatology and ethics interweave, informing Scripture’s ultimate moral/spiritual vision and urgent appeal. Moral realities unfold against the vivid tapestry of an eschatological horizon comprised of a historical flow (past, present, future) and in the context of an overarching worldview with its vision of God and His redemptive re-creation. These moral realities include character (being and doing), freedom and choice, truthfulness, worship, covenant faithfulness, ethical practice, reconciliation, ethical norms, moral dilemmas, and moral agency. The context for ethical reflection is nuanced through key integrating themes that call for priority in our thinking and ethical method. Revelation puts us in a moral context—telling us what condition human life is in, where we are, and where we are going. It informs us what questions need to be answered. It provides the philosophical map, the larger moral vision against which its various moral themes can be considered.