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Would
You Lie to Save a Life?
Love
Will Find a Way a Home
A
Theology on the Ethics of Love
Michael G. Maness
Illustrations by Gustave
Doré
©1990,
Revised 1998 & 2007
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In 1968,
Commander Lloyd "Pete" Bucher and the crew of
the USS Pueblo
were captured by North Koreans and held for almost a year. Early on,
Bucher was asked to sign a confession, asked and forced to
lie to save life. He was forced to sign a
confession to being in Korean waters when he was actually in international
waters in order to save his men. There was every reason to believe they
would kill.
What would you do?
More importantly, "how" would you justify whatever you would do? I
contrast four ethical systems and detail the essential nature of absolutes,
especially the
absolutes of "Truth" and "Love."
Geisler's Graded Absolutism, Rakestraw's Non-Conflicting Absolutism,
Smith's Principleism and my Dynamic Absolutism are compared and contrasted in
this comprehensive look at the one dilemma of lying to save a life in Bucher's
dilemma.
Where
is
the cutting edge of ethical theorizing today? Ethics is the quest for
God's will this side of heaven when God
does not seem so clear. Part of the distinction comes in the place of
"time" in the determination of "rightness" and in the analysis of
the teleological and deontological dimensions of every decision.
Full Table of Contents
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Contents of
Love's Gold Mine
Author's Preface
Expanded Contents of Love's Gold Mine
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List of Charts
Introduction to
Love’s Golden Treasures
1.
Love’s
Gauntlet—the USS Pueblo History
2.
Love and Ethics
Mulched by WWJD
3.
Love and Evil
Rain—Endure
4.
Love’s Unchanging
and Universal Parts
5.
Love Is Absolute
6.
Love’s 1st
Foundation—Simplicity
7.
Love’s 2nd
Foundation—"Duty" From God
8.
Love’s 3rd
Foundation—Morality Natural
9.
Love’s 4th
Foundation in Time
10.
Love a Human
Struggle with Time
11.
Love, Lying, and
Truth
12.
Love Struggles to
Find a Way
13.
Love Masters the
Teleological in Time
14.
Love’s Uncharted
Islands of Responsibility
15.
Love Will Find a
Way
Epilogue--Love's
Gold Train through Time
See Chart 15. Love's Struggle
between Legality and License
See Chart 24.
Teleological / Deontological Analysis of Choice
See
Long Course on Deontology and
Teleology
See
Two Hermeneutical
Presuppositions
See Depravity and
Will of God
See Truth Article
that briefly reviews three articles on Truth in the 2005 Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society (JETS) by Andreas J. Köstenberger, R. Albert
Mohler, and J. P. Moreland
See Speaking the Truth in Love and
Fundamentalist Mocking of Love, a commentary on Ephesians 4:15
See
Character Quotes by Famous Persons
See 800+ Bibliography on Love
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Other Ethics Articles of Interest
Will of God and a Man's Lifework: Condensation,
by Henry B. Wright,
a masterly work on the principles of
discovering God's will for one's life.
"What is
Truth?" - Short Review of Three 2005 JETS Articles on Truth by
Andreas J. Köstenberger, R. Albert Mohler, and J. P. Moreland.
War and Peace Article by M.G. Maness viewing
SBC Doctrine of Peace and War.
See
Character –
Super List - Web Sites 
Character
& Idealism Bibliography
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Would You Lie to
Save a Life
has two companions,
originally meant as appendixes:
Heart of the Living God--Love, Free
Will, Foreknowledge, Heaven: A Theology on the Treasure of Love
Character Counts--Freemasonry USA's
National Treasure and Source of Our Founding Fathers' Original Intent
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