What does it actually look like to make moral improvement? How do we do it? Do we just decide that we want to be better and then work on it?
All in Morality
What does it actually look like to make moral improvement? How do we do it? Do we just decide that we want to be better and then work on it?
To some degree we can work on ourselves and improve morally. But, is that all that moral improvement is?
Why don't more people have a desire to become better people? This is a question that has baffled me for some time, and frankly, it still does.
There is no more basic statement when we are describing Christianity than saying “There is a God.” But, why does that matter?
How exactly do we go about trying to find a god? Where does one look?
How much time do we spend thinking about what it's like on the other side of things? Do we consider things from other people's perspective? Or, do we simply render judgment from a safe distance?
Making spiritual progress may not be easy, but is it supposed to be complicated?
By and large, people in the fitness world are very understanding about weaknesses, because we are all extremely aware that we have them. What if we treated moral weaknesses the same way?
What is the "Image of God" and how does it affect my daily life?
In Part 1, we saw that judging others was inherently problematic because as humans we lack full knowledge of the person being judged, and we are not morally faultless ourselves. However, we were still left with the question of how we can address problems in the world, especially ones with people.
If we take just a minute and think about what it actually takes to judge another person fairly, we will quickly realize that we do not possess this ability. I can immediately think of two very important things that we do not have.
Christians will sometimes say that non-Christians are not capable of performing good actions. Their reasoning is ...