This document discusses how Christians determine right and wrong behavior from a biblical perspective. It outlines that Christianity follows the teachings of Jesus Christ who taught to love God and others. Two influential Christian philosophers, Augustine and Aquinas, shaped Western Christian ethics. Aquinas identified virtues like prudence, justice, courage and temperance that guide moral decisions based on biblical principles to do good and avoid evil according to God's will.

2. Christianity
 Refers to an individual, it
is a person who has
received Christian baptism
or is a believer in Jesus
Christ and his teachings.

3. Ethics
 Is the study of good and
evil, right and wrong.
 It is an intentional
motivation that driving
the behaviour of a person.

4.  is a branch of Christian theology that
defines virtuous behavior and wrong
behaviour from a Christian perspective.
Question is?
 How do Christians decide what is right and
what is wrong?

7. Jesus
 referred to as Jesus of
Nazareth and Jesus Christ,
was a first-century Jewish
preacher and religious
leader. He is the central
figure of Christianity.

8. Love
Forgive
Serve

9. Love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with
all your soul and with all
your mind.
Love your neighbour as
yourself.

10. Good and Evil

11.  Saint Augustine of Hippo was a
Roman African, early Christian
theologian and philosopher
from Numidia whose writings
influenced the development of
Western Christianity and
Western philosophy.

12. Freedom from doing:
Good and Evil
Freedom
God’sWill

13. He says that God is:
The good
The truth
The absolute beauty

14.  Saint Thomas Aquinas OP was an
Italian Dominican friar, Catholic
priest, and Doctor of the Church.
He was an immensely influential
philosopher, theologian, and
jurist in the tradition of
scholasticism

15. "Best way to
live one's life"

16. Principles
Biblical principles are God's way of
conveying to mankind how to live, and to
Christians the path of progressive maturity
in the faith.
 Good should be done and avoid Evil.

17. Virtues
A virtue is an habitual and firm disposition
to do the good. It allows the person not only
to perform good acts, but to give the best of
himself.
Four MainVirtues according to Aquinas:
-Prudence, Justice, Courage &Temperance

18. Prudence
 the act of bringing moral reasoning
into all decisions and putting it before
irrational desires and ego-promotion.
Reason, rather than passion, is at the
heart of moral decisions.

19. Justice
 a disposition to give others what
they are entitled to, or have a right
to.
Courage
a disposition to restrain fears so as to
act rightly.

20. Temperance
 the moderation of desires, especially
sexual desire, in line with their “proper
role”. This does not require a lack of
passion, but something more like a
golden mean.

21. Thank you for listening..
Job 10:12