Baptist Ethics

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This paper looks at the subject of ethics in the Baptist religion, which is what is used in making decisions about moral and immoral behavior. This paper specifically looks at Baptist codes of ethics and perspectives on the issues of abortion, homosexuality, drugs and alcohol, and education. The paper further discusses the implications of purely Bible-based ethics.

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"Baptists are a Protestant denomination of Christianity, and their faith and practices are based on the belief in the absolute truth of the Bible. Therefore many of their moral and ethical evaluations of society and culture are conservative in nature, reflecting this Biblical foundation. Ethics can be very simply defined as "the criteria by which persons determine what they ought to be and do" or how individuals judge whether or not a particular act is in line with either their own self-constructed set of standards, or those of the society (Beach 8). Because Baptist ethics, like other Protestant faiths, are based entirely on the authority of the Bible, all are supported in some way by Scriptural evidence, and are considered to be "fundamentalist" (Beach 15). The realm of ethics is where people make choices based on what they believe to be right and wrong in the eyes of God."

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