Christian Ethics

It is far from my intention to deny that we find in Christian Ethics a deepening, an internalization, a few changes of emphasis, in the moral code. But only serious ignorance of Jewish and Pagan culture would lead anyone to the conclusion that it is a radically new thing. Essentially, Christianity is not the promulgation of a moral discovery. It is addressed only to penitents, only to those who admit their disobedience to the known moral law. It offers forgiveness for having broken, and supernatural help towards keeping, that law, and by so doing re-affrims it. A Christian who understands his own religion laughs when unbelievers expect to trouble him by the assertion that Jesus uttered no command which had not been anticipated by the Rabbis- few, indeed, which cannot be paralleled in classical, ancient Egyptian, Ninevite, Babylonian, or Chinese texts. We have long recognized that truth with rejoicing. Our faith is not pinned on a crank.

-C.S. Lewis, On Ethics

The coming of Christ was foretold and the beginning of everything. Christ was not a new “moral discovery,” but both the single moral truth that all other discoveries were based on and the fulfillment and completion of those discoveries, which fell short of his Glory. This was something that all of creation had been groaning in anticipation for and now it is here.

“I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother saying ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord “For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more”

-Jeremiah 31:33-34

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