Christian Moral Based & Rational Common Sense Decision Making

HLTH 551 - Final Paper Christian Moral Based & Rational Common Sense The Best Protocol for Decision Making By Don Simmons

Introduction

This essay will provide evidence from our texts, the Bible, Church teachings, and other sources to substantiate the premise that a protocol grounded in Christian morals and rational common sense is best for decision-making, especially when such decisions are critical to life. This will be achieved by: 1) identifying the key absolutes which provide the foundation for this type of decision-

issues requiring Biblical decision-making, 3) identifying a secondary methodology one could employ should the answer and/or

personal example with regard to action for standing firm and upholding the decisions and/or principles of these strategies (Kilner, 2011) (Munson, 2012) (Wycliffe Bible Translators, 1988).

Key Absolutes for this Type of Decision-Making

The first key absolute for this type of decision-making is natural law ethics and moral theology. In Part VI of the Munson text,

and that a sign of this was: “the debate joined on several fronts – theological and natural philosophical – in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries over miracles” (ebrary, Inc., 2008). This so called glue can still be found in many of the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings and traditions today, and by extension, has found its way into Protestant theology on a more limited basis. Our Munson text tells us that these beliefs: “had immense influence on the development of all moral and political theories” (Munson, 2012).

Matthew Levering starts his book exploring the question of whether natural law beliefs rightly belong within moral beliefs when those moral beliefs are also grounded in revelation from the Bible. He then states that Pope John Paul II answered his question with an affirmative in Veritatis Splendor with a strongly worded statement (NetLibrary, Inc., 2008). He quotes John Paul II as saying: “the church has often made...