Introduction
Christianity is one of the major religions in the world. Religion connotes the relationship and communion between a creator and his creation. Christianity entails a relationship between man and God. It is possible to consider religion through four basic points of view. These points of view are subjective, objective, moral, and institution. From the objective point of view, religion denotes a moral-spiritual relationship between the creature (man) and the creator (God). Man acknowledges this relationship individually, and expresses it collectively through worship. From the subjective point of view, religion is deeply rooted in mans nature as he seeks to find justification for morality and moral decency.
From the moral point of view, religion is a virtue in a person. This virtue disposes him to honor and worship the absolute (God). Religion is also an institution complete with values, activities, and beliefs systems. The institution has defined organizational structures, a body of doctrines, an ethical code, and a system of worship. The savior Jesus Christ teaches how to be virtuous. He gives a complete guide for the Christians on how to build a dwelling where the holy spirit can dwell in. in relation to God the father, the son teaches us to put His will first. Christians should always try to do Gods will and be like Him. They should also believe strongly that God loves everyone. Religion gives morality the purposefulness and clarity it requires through its ethical code.
The doctrine of the Trinity on moral life
God intentionally created man to be a free moral agent; however, His authority over mans every action is expressly clear. Gods authority exists over the life of everyone regardless of whether one recognizes it or not. Through the bible and interaction with faithful, God reveals Himself in three facets. These facets are the trinity. The trinity comprises of God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit. While it is impossible to understand God with the human mind, the triune nature abounds in the universe. It is so common and possibly the intention of the creator. The universe is an example of a triune composition. The basic constituents of the universe are time, space, and energy. Each of this constituent breaks down into three. Space is divisible into the three dimensions, time divides into the three tenses, and energy divides into positive, negative, and neutral.
God is the greatest conceivable being as such He is perfect. Love is moral perfection therefore God is a loving entity. God exist outside time and was there before the creation of man. Because God is eternal and does not change, He must sufficiently express and experience love with Himself. It is insufficient to describe God as loving by showing the love directed toward man. Because God existed before He created man, His love is directed internally to Himself. God is therefore a plurality of persons each loving the other. This affirms the nature of God as a perfect being. God is a triad of persons in an everlasting self-love affiliation. The connection between morality and Christianity is evident throughout the bible. The first book (Genesis) presents several examples. First, God creates using commands, i.e., let there be light. After creating man in His own image, God gives him a command. God expects man to be fruitful and multiply to fill the earth.
After creating Adam and Eve, God gave them perhaps the most significant command in the relationship between man and God. Adam and Eve were free to eat from any tree except the tree in the center of the garden. The tree in the center of the garden is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve disobey this command by eating from the tree. God respond by chasing them away from the Garden of Eden. From the beginning of human life at creation, God sets a concept to form the bases for the relationship between Him and his creation. When humans obey the commands given by God they receive blessing, however, when they fail to adhere to Gods command, they are punished, as is the case for the first sin. The reason given for the disobedience of the humans is not the intrinsic; rather the bible explains that the serpent convinced them to eat the fruit. Later in the story, Cain kills Abel as the evil spreads throughout the world. The idea of a basic orientation for man either toward or against evil is not present. The idea present in the first few chapters of the Bible is mans free will and the ability of Satan to deceive man.
Later in the book of genesis, God commands Abraham to leave his ancestral land and move to a land God promises to give him. Later on god instructs Abraham to kill his son but prevents it in the last minute by providing a ram for sacrifice. The great grandchildren of the father of faith end up in Egypt because of a drought. The stay in Egypt results to their becoming slaves in this foreign land. Later God redeems them from slavery with the help of Moses. Because of the lack of trust in God, the children of Israel wander the deserts for 4o years. During this period, God gives the children of Israel the Ten Commandments on the Sinai Mountain. The commandments are in two parts, one is the obligations of man to God, and the other is mans obligations to one another. These commandments together form the bases for law and acceptable moral conduct. Later in the Bible, God makes a covenant with Noah after the floods. This covenant makes the connection between how make should live and how he was created.
In the New Testament, God the son recaptures God the father commandments and sums them up in to two. This include the command to love god will all heart, mind, and soul. The other is the command to love ones neighbor as the self. Later in the Bible, Jesus in the sermon at the mountain takes the commandments to heart. God not only expects one to abstain from committing adultery, but also expects him or her to abstain from lust and lustful thoughts. Jesus commands his disciples to love both their friends and their enemies. This indicates that the commandment of love is not a reciprocate action but an action carried out by true Christians who reflect the nature of God. Jesus later describes a neighbor as a person in need of help. In the Old Testament, God the father gives commands to the children of Israel. This provides the bases for the morals and cultures of the people. In the New Testament, God the son presents a more personal approach in which the moral standards are at an individual level. God the Holy Spirit provide the internal guidance system to the individual. This gives the individual Christian the ability to choose what is right on evil. The Holy Ghost also communicates the fathers will to his creation.
The eternal law
There are four types of laws. This includes the eternal, natural, human, and divine laws. The eternal law is the most basic. The other categories of law originate from the eternal law. According to St, Thomas law is a rule that enable the measurement of acts. Laws limit the actions of man. in some instances the law induces man to act in certain ways. Law pertains to reason. This includes human and divine reasoning. Eternal law therefore is the divine governance of everything. God exist outside time. Because God is not bound by time, His reasoning forms the eternal laws. The concern of eternal law is more than the orderliness of the universe. Through reasoning God provides to man from within himself. Man naturally carries the imprint of Gods eternal law. Through the eternal laws, God orders everything to His Glory and Love. This is most evident in the participation of man in Gods plans. The imprint of the eternal laws in man leads him to develop the natural laws.
It is established in the Bible that there is an eternal law made by God but even Him cannot break it. When Adam and Eve broke God eternal law by eating the forbidden fruit, god responded by chasing them away from the Garden of Eden. Even if God is perfectly God and willing to forgive the two, the eternal law is absolute and must hold. The main reason is Satan who knows the law all too well, and is trying to find a mistake in the character of God. Eternal law is the reason why God could not just forgive Adam and Eve but had to send his son to suffer and die and earth for the sins of the world. Only through the blood of Jesus is man saved from the eternal wrath of God because of the original sin.
Laws are necessary even for the earthly kingdom. Wise men know that no kingdom would last even for a day without laws and regulation. The kingdom of God abides forever. In order for God to rule over His kingdom forever, He has to form laws and regulations. Because the kingdom abides forever just like its creator, the laws of the Kingdom must be perfect and flawless. God the son did not come to change the law but rather to strengthen it. The laws of God, including the Ten Commandments and the beatitudes are for every Christian. In the bible, the beatitudes appear in the books of Mathew and Luke. The beatitudes come from a Latin word meaning happy. Jesus gave the teaching of the beatitudes in the sermon at the mountain. There are eight beatitudes and each is enigmatic, accurate, and packed with meaning. Each of the beatitude is from a similar old testament teaching but Jesus gives it new meaning. From the teaching of the beatitudes, we see that Jesus is strengthening the teaching of God the father through his sermons. The beatitudes only build father from God the father eternal Laws.
God the Holy Spirit is a member of the trinity and acts as a message for God the Father. As an eternal member of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit dwells in the hearts of the faithful. Before the creation of the earth and man, the three members of the Godhead made a covenant among themselves. The covenant entails issues affecting the interaction of the Godhead with man. God the father is the creator of the universe, God the son is the redeemer of man, and God the spirit is the witness. The Holy Spirit is also a sanctifier. Because unclean things can dwell in the presences of the divine, the system of salvation relies on the action of the Holy Ghost to sanctify. This state is achievable only through the conformity to the eternal laws of god the father. The roles of the Holy Ghost to the faithful include giving strength and revealing the necessary to them. The Holy Ghost is a major component of the Christian religion and enables the Christian faithful to follow gods eternal laws and ultimately achieve salvation. The Holy Ghost is the stamp of approval for those Christians who uphold Gods eternal law.
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