The Purity of Biblical Ethics

Part Two
Bibliology: 9 BIBLE EVIDENCES
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

By Charles F Baker

Atheistic writers and lecturers often make the claim that the Bible is an immoral book because it relates the sins of some of its characters. But what they fail to state is that while the Bible does give a true account of these sins, it does so in order to show God’s displeasure and to warn others against falling into such sins. Honest-minded people can find no flaw in the ethics of the Bible--in fact, the moral law as stated in the Bible has become the basis for moral ethics of most of the civilized world, although few people live up to its standards. About the only objection which has been voiced by philosophers is that the ethics of the Bible is an acceptable position only if it can be proved that God exists, and that God is good. If God does not exist, then we might as well follow the ethics of Paul’s day: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:32). When we compare this Epicurean philosophy, along with that of the Cynics and the Stoics, with Christian ethics as taught in the Bible, we become aware of the overwhelming superiority of Biblical principles. Some human philosophies did develop some good ethical standards, but they could provide no motivation or power to make people ethical. The Bible supplies the dynamic through regeneration and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit for the realization of its ends.

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