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Ethics of Jesus
Character of Christ • Ethics of Christ
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Jesus, Ethic Of
Jesus, ethic of. The ethic of Jesus is primarily encapsulated in the first three books of the New Testament and expounded by the New Testament writers. Jesus’ ethic arose out of his proclamation of the eschatological *kingdom of God, which called kingdom citizens to obey the king and to *love each other.

A. The Character of Christ
A. The character of Christ.—It is remarkable that all study of Christ necessarily begins with His character. It is not so with other great men, even the founders of religions. What primarily drew adherents to them was not the goodness of their characters, but some gift or power which they possessed.

Ethics of Jesus
ethics of Jesus. Widely lauded, and variously interpreted, the ethics of Jesus constitute not only a standing reproach of human sin and moral weakness but also a vivid picture of the kind of people his followers should and can be. See also Jesus Christ VI.B. I. Interpretation A. Major schools of thought

Ethics of Jesus
ETHICS OF JESUSThe “ethics” of Jesus concerns how Jews (and later Gentiles) follow Jesus in his own praxis of Torah observance, his own articulation of the premier revelation of *God’s will in Israel’s Torah, and how to embody his moral teachings in ways that manifest the *kingdom of God. In particular,

Perfection, Christian
PERFECTION, CHRISTIANTherefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Matt. 5:48.Leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection. Heb. 6:1.Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Jas.
