Do you rely on your own personal experience to decide if something is good or wrong, or do you rely on the Bible to decide what is right or wrong? The definition of Morality explains, “Beliefs about what right behavior is and what wrong behavior is. The degree to which something is right and good: the moral goodness or badness of something” (Dictionary.com). Morality in the time of the Puritans has changed rapidly today from what it once was. How does this change affect us as Christians and what we base our morality on? The book called Scarlet Letter tells us about a Puritan woman named Hester. Hester committed adultery and gave birth to a girl named Pearl. As was the custom in this Puritan town, the people in the town basically treated Hester
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Matthew 6: 24 says, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” This verse explains to us that we cannot base our moral decisions on two different sources. We need to stick to one source that we know will lead us down the right path. God created us as humans, which means we are moral creations. God also created us with consciences that tell us when we do right and wrong. Now of course we should not always listen to our conscience since we can sometimes hear the wrong message. Romans 2:15 states: “They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” Christians have the word written upon their hearts. This will majorly help them in making moral decisions. Since us as humans are sinful, we need to cling to Jesus to help us to make moral decisions that will benefit our lives. As Matthew 7: 24-25 tells us, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” Our moral decisions should be firmly based on Jesus, who is our
Matthew 6: 24 says, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” This verse explains to us that we cannot base our moral decisions on two different sources. We need to stick to one source that we know will lead us down the right path. God created us as humans, which means we are moral creations. God also created us with consciences that tell us when we do right and wrong. Now of course we should not always listen to our conscience since we can sometimes hear the wrong message. Romans 2:15 states: “They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” Christians have the word written upon their hearts. This will majorly help them in making moral decisions. Since us as humans are sinful, we need to cling to Jesus to help us to make moral decisions that will benefit our lives. As Matthew 7: 24-25 tells us, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” Our moral decisions should be firmly based on Jesus, who is our