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"Introduction To A Love Story-Part V"



Posted: Sunday, August 02, 2009

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Sugarwood Christian Center intl inc

Deeds and Rules:

All Christians acknowledge that Christian ethics should be founded on love. However there have been a number of debates about the best way to do this. One of the best-known disagreements in this Century is over "situation ethics". A number of people argued that Christians should not become tied up in rules. Instead, they should act in any given situation, as love would dictate. A number of examples were given of difficult situations in which traditional ethical rules would produce the wrong decisions. A more recent version of this approach was a document on sexual ethics produced for (but rejected by) the Presbyterian Church (USA). It suggested relaxing most of the traditional sexual rules, in favor of a standard that they called "justice love", which seems to have been a somewhat revamped situation ethics.

This approach has not been well received. There are two reasons. The first is grounded in basic Christian realism about human psychology. Difficult ethical decisions, particularly in sexual matters, tend to occur at times when people are not in a position to make carefully considered choices. It is far too easy for situation ethics to become license to be motivated only by immediate feelings.

There is also a realization that love can be shown in structures as well as in individual decisions. The commitment between husband and wife, parent and child, friend and friend establish the contexts in which we work. They allow us to share confidences, and bare our selves. Decisions can't be made from moment to moment in isolation. I remember moment to moment but not in isolation, although separated from my Love there was always the inclusion. "My Lady" was always within. When my mind goes back I always remember the beautiful night in June. The way "My Lady" danced and the way she modeled whatever she wore, was a picture that was snapped in my memory and never disappeared. She was and is always internal within my inwards. Woe! Is me, for "My Lady" says the same.

These are some of the maturational points that "My Lady" and I now hold. With this knowledge we found changeless times in changing time. Changeless in that we still loved each other and changing times in that we have spent 30 years apart.

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