Tour 2 Philosophy and Ethics

The longest journey in life is from the head to the heart. In the study of Ethics and philosophy it mentions our linguistic shift of the meaning of ethics and morality. We have philosophically in culture today created our own morality by acting on what "is", not the real meaning of ethics which is what "ought" to be. When we remove the idea of ethics and we act according to what "is" popular behavior, good, bad, right or wrong as humans, we have no absolute standard on which to base morality. Ethics are the "ought" , Morality the "is". So now society takes a census on what is popular or how people act in society and what "is" creates the norm.
The Bible tells us about not conforming to the world but being transformed by the renewing of the mind. To often today Christians act according to a feeling, a mystical sense of Godliness and try to bypass the mind in the study of Gods Word revealed to us. The prophet Jeremiah noted, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9, ESV). Similarly, the apostle James said, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:22-25). Ravi Zacharias eloquently states it as such. The world does not understand what the absoluteness of the moral law is all about. Some get caught, some don’t get caught. Yet who of us would like our heart exposed on the front page of the newspaper today? Have there not been days and hours when like Paul, you’ve struggled within yourself, and said, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do…. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:15, 24). Each of us knows this tension and conflict within if we are honest with ourselves.
What as Christians can we learn from this? The answer is in His Word.