What is the central trait of God's nature as it relates to ethics? correct answers Holiness
What are two aspects of God's character trait? correct answers a) God is separate from sin and
evil
b) God's redemption and blessings to all the Earth
What is the meaning of the Greek word "ethos" from which the word ethics is derived? correct
answers To mean customs, what is ought to be customary.
What English word is derived from the Latin word 'mormos'? correct answers Morals
Explain the difference between ethics and morality. correct answers While ethics is primarily
deciding whatever action shall be, morality is the action itself.
What does the author state is the major premise of his book? correct answers Godly love is
essential for attaining godly ethics
List 5 traits that characterize bad pleasures. correct answers a) self love dominates the pleasure
seekers heart
b) pleasure is harmful to oneself and others
c) pleasure seeking becomes obsessive
d) pleasure is within the wrong crowd
e) pleasure seeker doesn't enjoy the the Lord's presence
What ethical dilemma faced Joshua in conquering Jericho? correct answers Whether this
honorable man of God would hold up his agreement to the 2 spies and prostitute when the city
fell to Israel's army
, List 5 unique qualities of the ten commandments correct answers a) similar significance to Jesus
as the Sermon on the Mount is to Christians
b) divine authority and eternal quality
c) they are closely interrelated
d) they apply to all people, culture/time
e) they go beyond the external and moral aspects of proper conduct
What is the greatest story ever preached? correct answers Sermon on the Mount
How has the Sermon on the Mount been characterized? correct answers Addressed primarily to
disciples, but overheard by the crowds; spoken to the Church and overheard by the world.
What does Barnette say about the Sermon regarding ethics? correct answers It stands as "a
systematic statement of the main elements of the Christian ethics"
Who do the first 3 beatitudes focus on? correct answers The lowly heart, poor in spirit, mourning
and meek
What remarkable concept does the second beatitude introduce? correct answers The mourning of
things that hurt or grieve God as well as the joy of suffering with Christ
Matthew 5:17-18 defines what transition? correct answers Transition from Law to grace fulfilled
by Christ's life and through him.
List four implications of the Disciple's prayer correct answers a) we honor God when we hold his
name sacred
b) God's will is to be respected by both people and angels
c) the debts of our peers must be forgiven to ensure God's forgiveness
d) the cry of the human heart must always be for guidance away from sin and deliverance from it