Christian Morality

• a person who has received _ baptism or is a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings. “Simply known as “follower of Christ.”


  Christian
• is derived from the Latin word MOS or MORIS which means CUSTOM.


  Morality
• The Science of what man ought to be by reason of what he is

  Morality
• relating to standards of good behavior or goodness.

  Moralis
• Morality is derived from the Latin word that means custom


  mos or moris
• The Science, concerned about what ought to be, judging right from wrong in the light of revelation, one’s act of responsibility, and responding to all personal invitation of Jesus.

  Morality
• is concerned with identifying and explaining the principles that determine the quality of human behavior in the light of Christian faith. It is the call of the human person to live a life of constantly following Jesus Christ.


  Christian Morality
• is the norm or standard of living a Christian Moral life.


  Jesus Christ
• 1. Love God Above all 2. Love Your Neighbor as Yourself


  THE TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS
• “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”


  Matthew 22:36-40
• The modern world is characterized by a multiplicity of

  values, philosophies, and ideologies
• to Jesus Christ implies walking in his footsteps.


  Conversion
• “If you live according to my teaching, you are truly my disciples; then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”


  John 8:32
• He who knows the right thing to do and does not do it is sinning.


  James 4:17
• We believe that we have a loving and powerful God. We have been created in the image and likeness of this loving and powerful God. What does this make us then? This truth makes us loving and powerful creatures or children of God. For us to be able to know more about God and about our real identity, it is necessary that we read the following points below.


  God's Love
• God created everything in _ days


  6
• First, God’s Love is first revealed in creating _ & _ in his image and likeness


  Man & Woman
• Second, God’s Love is revealed in the _ _ _ _ _. In Abraham, God chose a family to be His Own and God made a Covenant


  Election of the Chosen People
• Third, God’s Love is revealed in _ _.


  Jesus Christ
• “But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.”


  Rom 5: 8
• Fourth, God’s Love is revealed in the Coming of the _ _.


  Holy Spirit
• is innate, bestowed on us by God. - Man is the crowning glory of God’s handiwork.


  Human Dignity
• came from Latin word dignitas, root word dignus means “worthy”


  Dignity
• came from the Latin word dignitas, root word dihgnus which means "worthy"


  Dignity
• Persons


  Open and relational by nature
• Persons

  Conscious beings: aware of their thoughts, feelings, and emotions, speech, and actions through the exercise of their freewill
• Persons

  Embodied spirits: unity between body and soul (spirit and body fused into one)
• God the Son dignified the body through his “Incarnation”
• Persons


  Historical realities: pilgrims on a journey called life
• Persons go through the same stages of growth from birth to old age
• Persons

  Unique yet fundamentally equal: individuals differ in physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects
• All of us are endowed with the same rational soul
• All of us are called by one God
• We are created in God’s image and likeness
• The inviolable dignity of the Human person is our most precious possession because the value of the human person comes not from what the person has but from what the person is.


  Christifidelis Laici, no. 37
• Humans can act accordingly if they make use of God-given Powers, namely


  The Power to Reason  The Power to Choose  The Power to Wi
• The gift of _ enables man to know, to learn, to understand, to analyze, to remember, to apply these learning in order to such activities as to invent, to manipulate, to forecast or predict possible events before they happen, to manage the creation of God


  Reason
• “Between the stimulus and the response there is a space. In that space is the power to choose our response. In our Response lies our growth and our freedom.”

  The Power of Choice
• Another powerful gift given by God to humanity is the power to will his actions towards the achievement of his freely Chosen goals that were deliberated with reason. The Power to Will or Free will has traditionally been conceived of as a kind of power to control one’s choices and actions


  The Power to Will
• heroic simplicity in loving God and neighbor, choosing to let go of the wealth of his earthly father in order to be free to call God as his Father.


  St. Francis of Assisi’s