Gender ethics
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The ethical system that I have chosen is virtue ethics. Virtue ethics is about one’s character and the community to which one belongs. 1 This ethical system is about who we are and who we should be. 2 This system is not based on decision-making as much as it is on the nature of virtue, reflection on what makes the good life, and the values and priorities of a community. 3
This topic can be controversial because one can often overlook the importance of our acts and decision-making.4 We can overlook the way that we should be living our lives by giving in to the temptations around us. By focusing on the moral agent rather than the moral act we sometimes overlook the notions of moral principles such as the moral norms. 5
When it comes to virtue ethics, we must think about how we ought to be living our lives and how those in our communities want us to live our lives. This ethical system reminds me of the biblical worldview, which is the framework of how one should live their life according to God. Magnuson says that marriage is about one male and one female so that the relationship can be fruitful, including that of offspring. 6 When knowing how we ought to live our lives, we need to take into real consideration the topic of sexual activity. When people are in a relationship, but not yet married some people may overlook the aspect that we are not to have sex until marriage. Sometimes we must stop and think about whether this is the way God would want us to live our lives. Allison says due to sin, we are sexually broken people in a fractured world. 7 When making decisions this is something that we must keep in mind. There is sin in this world, but it is up to us to make the right choices. Even when we do not choose to get married, we can still be single and not have sexual relationships. When one is single, Paul says that one can
avoid worldly troubles, have freedom from anxieties, and have undivided devotion to the Lord. 8 By doing this, we are living our lives how we ought to be living through a biblical framework. Also, when it comes to two people of the same sex-they cannot anticipate or hope for a child as a fruit of their own
union. 9 Two people of the same sex may be able to get married in the world
we live in today, but within the books and the Bible, they cannot physically have a child together. That is why marriage is about one man and one woman in holy matrimony.
Someone who is a non-Christian may answer the question of sex and gender by believing differently than we do. Since non-Christians do not believe in God and what the bible says their perspective may be completely different. On one hand, they may say that people can choose what gender they want to be. Whether it is a male wanting to be a female or a female wanting to be a male, this may be completely okay with them. On another hand, they may believe that it is okay for people to have sex outside of marriage. They may not believe that a person should cheat or have multiple partners but could agree to two people in a relationship having sex together. Some non-
Christians have their own religion and do believe that a man can have
multiple wives and multiple children with those wives. Honestly, non-
Christians do not always stop to think about how they should be living their lives or how the community around them would want them to live their lives.
This is not the correct way that we should be living our lives. We ought to be living according to the way that God wants us to live our lives, through a biblical worldview. I heard a preacher once say, that he does not care if anyone is gay, he has nothing against them, but he believes what the bible says about marriage being about one man and one woman.
Footnotes
1.
Ken Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academics, 2020), 28.
2.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 28.
3.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 28.
4.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 37.
5.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 38.
6.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 178.
7.
Gregg R. Allison, Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2021), 87.
8.
Allison, Embodied, 94.
9.
Magnuson, Invitation to Christian Ethics, 178.
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