Ecclesiastes 7:15-18

The battle between legalism and grace is always difficult. Are we to live holy and righteous lives? Absolutely. Are we to be in the world and friends of sinners? If we want to be like Jesus we should. Does God forgive us when we sin? Thankfully. Finding the delicate balance between those two extremes is difficult.…

Every person makes ethical choices, and they do so using an ethical model they have either intentionally chosen or thoughtlessly inherited. Here, we are not speaking about the standard of right and wrong, but rather how that standard is applied to a difficult choice. Are we expected to assess the amount of good in every choice’s consequence and choose the least evil outcome (utilitarian ethics)? Are we to look for a divine command which addresses our specific situation or else reinterpret div……