What are Christian Ethics?

actions amid the relativities of the present world. Jesus’ teachings are found in aphorism, parable, simile, striking hyperbole, in words of commendation or rebuke or in Jesus’ own recorded deeds.  Jesus taught the two Great Commandments, where the duty of love of neighbour is not an addendum to the obligation to love God without reservation, but is an implication of it. It appears repeatedly both in Jesus’ words and in the total tenor of his life. Examples of Jesus’ words are or " His chief concern was with right attitudes from which right acts might proceed. Jesus was completely opposed to the substitution of either ceremonial acts or correct outward behaviour for humble obedience to God and loving concern for one’s neighbour. His concern was to proclaim the nature of a God-centred, love-filled life lived in obedience to the call of God, and to win men to it. And this he succeeded in doing, in unmistakable terms. Some respected Christian values are God-centred faith and love. Its derivative aspects are purity of heart, sincerity, humility, forgiveness, love toward enemies, mercy, charity in judgment, honesty in speech and action, sexual purity, renunciation of worldly aims with the preferring of spiritual to material treasure, compassion toward those in need. The good life is that of generous and self-giving service to all men and unbroken, unworried trust in the Christian ethics begin with the assumption that Christian character is founded, not on naturalism or humanism, but on Jesus as revealing God’s supremacy, that Christian virtues are not the exclusive possession of Christians, that sin is not a state of being but rebellious self-love and self-exaltation that leads to failure to be adequately responsive to the love commandment of Jesus, that humans are created free to make moral choices, and Christians are called to make these choices in light of the love commandment.