TLAC Video Session 8 - The Christian Worldview of ETHICS

From the founding of America until 1962 the Ten Commandments were proudly posted throughout the nation on the walls of our courthouses, our classrooms, our living rooms, and our civic centers. As such, Americans were continually confronted with the moral laws handed down through Moses and Christ, which had provided our country with the highest moral standard of ethics the world has ever seen. Our crime rate was the lowest in the world. Contracts were regularly made based solely upon a man's word and a handshake. Wherever in the world the Ten Commandments were honored, the results were the same. But our current culture, from the schools through the media, has been preaching to us for the last fifty years that Judeo-Christian ethics are out-of-date. There is no such thing as right and wrong; and all personal decisions and actions are relative to an individual's situation. This idea is called "situational ethics", and even a majority of Christians today have been swept into this morally b