Christian Theories And Virtues

CHRISTIAN THEORIES AND VIRTUES

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Abstract

The atonement of sin is the supernatural act of love that God has given to all humanity,

individually, thereby providing the supernatural internal satisfaction to every person. It is a

personal agenda to everyone regardless of age or race. It is beyond just the atonement theories,

which dictates every individual to satisfactorily comprehend and embrace it, so as to attain the

supernatural comfort that has power beyond the ordinary therefore commanding the natural. John

6:63 records how this Supernatural power commands the natural. This study expounds how this

ability is attained and it was made possible to all humanity. Besides, it significantly defines the

lifestyle that the beneficiary needs to live so as to make his life successful. However, it points out

on the contradictory ideas and theories which are basically elemental but the atonement.

Introduction

The value of life is deemed much important than the essence of just living the life itself. This

is to say that in the natural life that is on this earth, there is the supernatural ability that describes

the existence of life and everything on earth, such ability, and power that defines the standards of

everything that is done here on earth and powerfully yet with humility controls all things and acts

of all humanity and all things that exist in this life. Christianity ethics and values define this

supernatural control powers that basically exist in the people that embrace sobriety, which stands

out as the standard code of behavior and actions.

The interesting definition of this ability

empowerment is the realization of the fact that this power rewards the sober individuals that

embrace its leading yet so powerfully carries out disciplinary action and mandate on the

rebellious actions. The fact that there are standard clauses that stand out in the Christianity

regulations, it means that there are the expected procedures to the action taken which definitely

which define the motive that the person doing the very act had at the initial point of action.

Besides, in the very acts that are carried out, it very possible for someone to be with a positive

good motive but in the event of the act, he accidentally commits a wrong act. It is because of

these values of good works, the consequences of the acts themselves and the specific motive of

the action taken, all in comparison to the Christian ethical practices and values that necessitates

this study.

Theories

Atkinson, David J, and David H Field. 1995. New Dictionary Of Christian Ethics And Pastoral

Theology. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press.

(Claar and Klay 2015)

The values of Christianity in life are distinct and basically are the best of nature, this means

that these values exist naturally. In other words, the goodness that is depicted in nature is the true

definition of the Christian values and the goodness of nature. It is the description of why these

values of Christianity are definitely good in the life of every living thing and therefore they ought

to be embraced by all people. Just as nature lives, so do the Christian values live and are not just

empty doctrines that are laid out to the leading of the Christians but they are active beliefs and

directions to successful living that save as well as enriches the partaker.

The basic knowledge

that is needed in the overall understanding of this powerful value of Christianity is the need to

acknowledge that the atonement of sin is needed obligatory to all human being so as to end the

overall suffering of humanity. The important part of it is the acknowledgment of the most vital

piece of the atonement which is personally to every individual upon their personal confession.

As part of the alternate theories in the Christianity values and ethics is the basic theory that

brings out the vital knowledge of atonement of all the sins of the people here on the earth. The

sins of all humanity are the reason of the different suffering of the people here on earth such that

they all need to be forgiven of their wrong acts. The dying of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross

has brought the atonement of the sins that all humanity has done. However, there is the

forgiveness of the sins upon the confession of the Lord Jesus as Lord. Within the atonement,

there is the moral influence theory which fathoms upon moral values in Christianity. The theory

propagates the importance of holding the moral values in nature and explains the origin of the

moral values (Lefkowitz 2017). Within the moral values, all people are thereby needed to act

Foss, Nicolai J, and Christian Knudsen. 2013. Towards A Competence Theory Of The Firm.

Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Fleming, James E, and Linda C McClain. 2013. Ordered Liberty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press.

valuable and morally upright, values that The Lord Jesus Christ delegated on the people here on

earth instilling the values in the lives of people through the different many teachings that he gave

people. HE also installed the moral values through the starting of the churches which he planted

many churches and gave out moral definitions. He also instilled people to embrace the power of

martyrdom in their consequent spread of these values.

There is also the ransom theory in which He brings pout the desire for all people to be saved

from the life of torment and suffering.

Within this theory, He explains and portrays the desire

that all humanity should turn away from the suffering through the ransom of their sin, an act that

would enable humanity to change and turn their lives from the suffering nature of evil and the

slavery of Satan. He does this through the giving of His own life through the death which He

does on the cross. There is also the satisfaction theory in which He portrays the impact of sin

which cannot be satisfied by anybody and in no way but only God Himself can take it away.

Within this theory, He shows the need that He had for all humanity to be justified from sin that

He died on the cross for the sake of all human beings. In this explanation, He calls upon all the

people to turn to the power of the cross and be forgiven and satisfied of all their wrongdoings.

Within the Christian values and principles of ethics, actions are the key points of decisions

and the judgments made. It is what someone has done that affirms of his willful behavior and act

to be called either right or wrong.

The act that is done by someone could be called a wrong act

Fleming, James E, and Linda C McClain. 2013. Ordered Liberty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press.

Suckau, Krishana Oxenford. 2011. Christian Witness On The Plateau Vivarais-Lignon.

Johnsen, Christian Garmann. 2015. "Authenticating The Leader: Why Bill George Believes

That A Moral Compass Would Have Kept Jeffrey Skilling Out Of Jail". Journal Of Business

Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2968-7.

Olson-Buchanan, Julie B, Laura L. Koppes Bryan, and Lori Foster Thompson. 2014. Using

Industrial Organizational Psychology For The Greater Good. London: Routledge Academic.

and be sinful or be a righteous act and the person is rewarded for doing what is right and lawful.

The different actions that the person does could have been done with a good intention and willful

desire to save a person from a fall. However, the good intention could so easily accidentally end

up in an act and therefore being called a sin. It is upon these different acts in the life of humanity

that have necessitated the need to observe the different theories that explain concerning the

action is done by a person. Utilitarianism theory explores the different observations that come

along with the acts done by a person.

Besides, it points out on the need to hold an overview

beyond the individual level by which it observes humanity at a larger level. The theory points out

that whatever thing that someone has done that is good, then it as to largely make something that

is great and extremely good touching a greater number of people so that it would qualify to be

good. This is an act that explains as to why all in all there has to be good right from the

beginning of the act for it to be called good and even prudent.

It means that in case there is any

faultiness in the act done then it would not be regarded as to be a good act.

The utilitarianism theory also focuses on the different economic value and importance that an

act holds in the eventual behavior.

In this act, the theory states out that there must be the overall

economic implication that is beneficial in the life of humanity as a whole.

This value explains

as to why it is important to observe the welfare of the human beings in regard to the economic

values. The theory explains why it is important to observe the different behavior of the human

beings in relation to the economic values. In this explanation, the economic value is more

De La Torre, Miguel A. 2014. Doing Christian Ethics From The Margins. Orbis Books.

Chesterley, Nicholas. 2015. "Virtue And Vice: Developing Character Through

Decisionmaking". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2567198.

cklinsberg, Helena, and Per Sandin. n.d. The Ethics Of Consumption.

Reamer, Frederic G. 2013. Social Work Values And Ethics. New York: Columbia University

Press.

important in the lives of humanity than how wrong or right the action itself is.

It insists that the

expenses made on the acts of life are more wasteful than if the much spent would be spent on

humanity. The theory explains as to why it is important to scrutinize different acts that could take

much spending for the economic empowerment than would the very same amount be given to

(Wadell et al. 2016).

The deontological theory, on the other hand, looks at the action done in respect to the

consequences of the action. The theory analyses the different actions and the reasons for the

action as they name them as the most important of it. The talks about the motive of doing the

action but not the act itself is the much concerned of in this theory. In this theory, it is believed

that there cannot be a good consequence in an action that is meant to be done wrongly. The

theory, therefore, believes that if a person has an intention of doing something that is morally

upright, then he would act right from the intentional goodness. It says that a person who has done

something that is right could have had a bad intention and just accidentally resulted into the

goodness. Similarly, he believes that someone with a right and good motive could also end up

doing something that is wrong and bad.

That is why he insists that there must be the right

intention and motive all the way right from the initial level. It believes that the acts that the

person could have done should be the kind of actions that resulted from a series of good actions

from the very person. It, therefore, means that it is possible to have someone who would have

been doing good things to do a good act again that it is possible to have the good acts done by a

person who is consistently doing wrong actions.

Simmons, Frederick V. n.d. Love And Christian Ethics.

Aaken, Anne van, and Christian List. n.d. Deliberation And Decision: Economics,

Constitutional Theory And Deliberative Democracy.

Nunes, Ann. 2012. Christian Moral Life. Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press.

The Christian ethical behaviors are the individual behaviors of a person that tend to define the

behaviors of an individual. They are the commonly called as the human resourceful actions that

would lead to the repeated actions and thereby result in the behavior of the person.

They are the

traits that lead to the way of the patterns of thinking of a person repeatedly. This means that

Christian virtues are not only determined by the actions but they are also told from the mentality

and the way of thinking that a person has. This, therefore, touches on the different rules and

regulations that a person has which are not regarded as laws that govern him but instead they are

actually procedures of doing his different actions. Christian ethics are further divided into the

cardinal and theological actions in which the Cardinals are four while the theological actions are

three. The cardinal virtues include justice, self-control, courage, and prudence which is the

ability of a person to make and do good actions.

These are basically acts that are related to the

physical living, the flesh. While the theological virtues are the faith which is the anchor of

Christianity, hope which is the ability to be expectant in spite of possible negative circumstances

and love which is the supernatural virtue and ability to love God and our neighbors as much as

one could be self-loving. These theological virtues are the spiritual virtues that determine the

spiritual direction of a person which is the determinant of how deep someone could get in the

things of God. As recorded in the Bible in the chapters 1, 5,16, and 26 of the book of Romans,

they are the true anchors of the spiritual being of a person which determines the divine control

and leadership of God in the life of the person.

Luomanen, Petri, Anne Birgitta Pessi, and Ilkka Pyysia

inen. n.d. Christianity And The Roots

Of Morality.

White, Peter, and Samuel K. Afrane. 2017. "Maintaining Christian Virtues And Ethos In

Christian Universities In Ghana: The Reality, Challenges And The Way Forward". HTS

Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 73 (3). doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.4442.

Atkinson, David J, and David H Field. 1995. New Dictionary Of Christian Ethics And

Pastoral Theology. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press.

The different theories especially the deontological theory is the common direction provider in

which a person would weigh his intention to have done something instead of the possible

negative or even positive outcome. If someone was under attack by an enemy and in the event of

the struggle the victim defeats the assailant and even beats him up severely, then the eventual act

would not be opted wrong on the victim. This is to say that, the victim who was under the attack

in the event of trying to rescue him from the attack harms his pursuer then he would not be said

to have committed a crime. This would neither be charged with him in the event that the victim

would have even suffered a major loss.

The reason that would make the victim to be imputed of

his actions from the episode is the motive that he would have had of simply finding a way of

rescuing himself from the attack. If this person would not have been attacked, then he would not

have had had any intention of attacking his assailant. This is a very ethical act that is would be

full of virtuous direction in which the person doing the act of attack was intending to steal from

this person but instead, he was overcome and defeated. However, in the Christian virtues and

ethics, the best resolution of the matter would be for this victim who eventually won the battle to

simply forgive his attacker and let go. Forgiveness which is an act of love is expected to be

portrayed fully and outwardly in every way in the life of a Christian.

He, therefore, would

simply forgive the person who would make that person be sorry for his wrong acts and because

of the kindness he is shown, he would turn from being a wrong person to being fully a good

intended person. The Christian virtues are basically meant to make those people that do not know

God and do not follow the teachings of Christ to turn from their ways that could be wrong and

follow Christ Jesus, in doing good acts which are expected of all those that obey Christ.

Atkinson, David J, and David H Field. 1995. New Dictionary Of Christian Ethics And

Pastoral Theology. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press.

Nunes, Ann. 2012. Christian Moral Life. Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press.

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Aaken, Anne van, and Christian List. n.d. Deliberation And Decision: Economics, Constitutional

Theory And Deliberative Democracy.

Atkinson, David J, and David H Field. 1995. New Dictionary Of Christian Ethics And Pastoral

Theology. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press.

Chesterley, Nicholas. 2015. "Virtue And Vice: Developing Character Through

Decisionmaking". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2567198.

Claar, Victor V, and Robin J Klay. 2015. Economics In Christian Perspective. Downers Grove:

InterVarsity Press.

De La Torre, Miguel A. 2014. Doing Christian Ethics From The Margins. Orbis Books.

Fleming, James E, and Linda C McClain. 2013. Ordered Liberty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press.

Foss, Nicolai J, and Christian Knudsen. 2013. Towards A Competence Theory Of The Firm.

Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Johnsen, Christian Garmann. 2015. "Authenticating The Leader: Why Bill George Believes That

A Moral Compass Would Have Kept Jeffrey Skilling Out Of Jail". Journal Of Business

Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2968-7.

Luomanen, Petri, Anne Birgitta Pessi, and Ilkka Pyysia

inen. n.d. Christianity And The Roots Of

Morality.

Nunes, Ann. 2012. Christian Moral Life. Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press.

Olson-Buchanan, Julie B, Laura L. Koppes Bryan, and Lori Foster Thompson. 2014. Using

Industrial Organizational Psychology For The Greater Good. London: Routledge

Academic.

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Press.

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Christian Universities In Ghana: The Reality, Challenges And The Way Forward". HTS

Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 73 (3). doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.4442.

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