Tuck , I came across this by accident. Its the first thing Ive read that gave me an insight into the objection to humanism. One of the great truths of the Reformation was sola scriptura, which means that what we believe and how we live is decided by Scripture alone. Calvinists believe that God is the measure of all things because He is the Origin of truth, justice, morals, meaning, and beauty. Humanists have always rejected sola scriptura and instead looked to something within themselves as the Origin of truth, justice, morals, meaning, and beauty. When it comes to making ethical judgments, i.e. determining right from wrong, some humanists believe that good motives justify evil deeds. The idea that if people claim that their motives were good this somehow means that their evil deeds are excusable was a teaching of Greek philosophy. When the Greeks came into the Church, they brought that doctrine with them. It caused great harm in the early church and is still being used today to justify evil. During the 1960’s, the idea that good motives justify evil deeds was rephrased as “The ends justifies the means” and “All you need is love.” Situational ethics is based on the idea that as long as your motives were good, i.e. you meant well, then it did not matter what you did. For example, girls who got pregnant out of wedlock often justified their immorality by saying, “But I loved him.” As long as the motive was love, then the immorality did not really matter.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:36:39 +0000
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