This course is a broad discussion of the biblical and philosophical bases for Christian ethics and their significance on moral and social decision-making.  Discussion includes the general and specific understanding of ethics and Christian ethics, the ethical world view, ethical alternatives such as antinomianism, situationism, generalism, unqualified absolutism, conflicting-absolutism, and the graded absolutism.  Ethical issues include a Christian and war, abortion, self-love, birth control, euthanasia (mercy-dying and mercy killing), suicide, capital punishment, economic growth and ecological destruction, biomedicine, civil disobedience, homosexuality, marriage and divorce, and teaching using robots.