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Scientology’s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals:
Scientologists say that each person must use knowledge to help themselves and others. These works must use the data in a way that actually improves conditions.
The belief is that, through helping others to become “free,” you can free yourself. Much emphasis is placed on social betterment, education, drug recovery programs, crime, psychiatric abuse, governmental abuse of law, human rights, “religious freedom,” and “morality.”
In contrast, Biblical Christianity doesn’t try, by human effort to either know the right thing to do or to do the right thing. Rather, God gives the power both to will and to do His good pleasure. It is God, working in the Christian, Who does the good works. The motivation comes from submission to the Spirit of God. The leading comes from God. The work comes from God. When Christians do not do the will of God, the forgiveness comes from God. This yielding to the Spirit of God leads the Christian on to a deeper relationship with God and spiritual maturity in Christ. The Christian’s ministry, which is actually the manifestation (unveiling) of the living Christ living in each Christian, is brought to a more mature state because the person has become more yielded to and focused on the Spirit of God.
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Biblical Christianity’s Vision of Ethics, Values, and Morals:
To compare Scientology to Biblical Christianity, go here. To compare Scientology's worldview of ethics, values and morals to the vision of morals, ethics, and values which is given to Scriptural Christianity, go here. |