How does one know if they are a moral person? Do they have to be a born again believer of Jesus Christ and follow the rules of the church to in order to be a moral person? There are some early American writing’s would have one to believe that they must be saved in order to be moral.
The word moral has several definitions. According to Webster’s dictionary, moral means “relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed.” Another definition says, “Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man.” From these definitions we can possibly conclude that all you have to do is “do the right thing” in order to be a moral person or you can conform to acceptable rules of right, such as the rules of the church, in order to be a moral person. …show more content…
He says, “Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen.” He is saying that sinners who have not turned their life over to God can find themselves falling into sin more and on their way to hell. He also tries to persuade them by saying, “Thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it;” This simply means that God already has the sinner, the one who isn’t born again, in his hands ready to send them to hell because they will not repent and come to
The word moral has several definitions. According to Webster’s dictionary, moral means “relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed.” Another definition says, “Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man.” From these definitions we can possibly conclude that all you have to do is “do the right thing” in order to be a moral person or you can conform to acceptable rules of right, such as the rules of the church, in order to be a moral person. …show more content…
He says, “Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering, and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight, and these places are not seen.” He is saying that sinners who have not turned their life over to God can find themselves falling into sin more and on their way to hell. He also tries to persuade them by saying, “Thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it;” This simply means that God already has the sinner, the one who isn’t born again, in his hands ready to send them to hell because they will not repent and come to