Bible As A Reliable Foundation For Christian Morality

Bible as a Reliable Foundation for Christian Morality

As a Christian, I believe that the bible is the ultimate truth. The

bible is basically a set of rules as to how we live our everyday

lives. This is the point I will highlight in this essay and I will

describe how it affects us as humans. But what is morality? Morality

is the way in which people live their lives and the way we act towards

other people. These are set out as rules in the bible and Christians

follow this as a basis for living.

In the Bible, it talks about the different tasks set by God to

different people such as Abraham, Moses and Noah. They all obeyed gods

rules and regulations and even though they seemed impossible at the

beginning, they turned out good in the end. All these things have a

great effect on the way we live our lives. Christians take great

importance to these stories, as they show us how to trust God and his

decisions he has for us.

In the New Testament, it mainly talks about the birth of Jesus, his

miracles and stories and his death. These are probably the most

important passages in the bible to read for Christians as they show us

the way to live our lives and how to act to other people correctly. In

the bible it tells us to live our lives as Jesus would have and to do

what he did. To the non-believer this sounds completely impossible.

They might think, how are we supposed to help the blind see, to raise

the dead? Its impossible to live like Jesus. But what it actually

means is to follow the main principals Jesus has shown us and to be

kind and loving to other people. Jesus tells us stories which link to

everyday life as it was then, and each story has a moral at the end of

it.

The first example of one of these stories is the story of the mustard

seed. It is from Matthew 13:31-32. 31He told them another parable:

"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and

planted in his field. 32Though it is the smallest of all your seeds,

yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a

tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches."

Basically this is talking about the kingdom being like a mustard seed.

When you go and preach the word of god to someone, it may seem a very

small thing at first but this act can grow very fast and reach out to

other people like the mustard seed and become so big that other

people, illustrated as birds, can come into it. I believe that this is

a very useful story as it is encouraging to Christians to go out and

to spread Gods word to people.

My second example is the man who built his house on the rock. It is

from Matthew 7:24-27 24"Therefore everyone who hears these words of

mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his

house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the

winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because

it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these

words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish

man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams

rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with

a great crash." This verse is talking about the clever man who gave

his life to God, and when bad times come, he will stand firm because

he has god to support him. But the foolish man who gives his life to

material possessions will have troubles in tough times, for there is

nobody there to help him. This is probably the most important verse to

Christians as it is a very good illustration of the good things that

will come if you give your life to Jesus.

Another very helpful passage are ten verses and they come from Luke

10:25-35. 25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test

Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

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