Not exact matches
what upsets people
is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way,
teach with authority,
be more charismatic, not setting a higher
moral standard, stuff like that... it
's not about what i or we DO as a community.
To me this enlightenment brings me to the same fundamental
moral standards that
were taught in the New Testament.
I
am using it exactly as
taught by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron, where we ask questions in order to encourage people to compare themselves, even judging themselves, by God's
moral standard instead of man's.
His heaviest count against the prevailing
teaching of his time
is precisely this: that, starting with the best intentions, it had come to encourage this folly and evil, as if it
were inseparable from a high
moral standard.
In a similar way, when some people say of Britain, for example, that it
is «basically a Christian country», they mean that the accepted
standards of behavior and
moral values derive from Christian
teaching.
And in conforming to mainstream academic tenure
standards,
is BYU losing talented professors who
are best equipped to prepare students to consider changing
moral foundations, but lack professionally accepted venues through which to publish what they
teach and study?
In our own time, for instance, this question
is the intellectual shrug that lies behind the institution of multicultural education, the social shrug that lies behind a race - based double
standard of conduct, and the
moral shrug that lies behind the permission to
teach techniques of anal and oral sex to schoolchildren.
Although the
moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long
been permeated by Christian
teaching, there
is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.
When teens
are living by Godly
morals and
standards that have
been taught in the home, they make better choices for their dating lives.
A primary way that schools can provide students with this kind of guidance
is to
teach them the great traditions that have endowed us with our
moral standards.