The Life-style of A Believer
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be. 4 ETHICS AND THE INDIVIDUAL The education and discipline of the mind according to the accuracy of God’s Word is the highest education of all intellec- tual powers. Man must so educate his will and desires that he becomes the master in the tabernacle of his own being. He must educate his mind to love good and abhor evil, and educate his intellect so that he has a coherent system of true beliefs. There are five basic types of judgments which a man can make: truth judgments, ethical judgments, expediency judgments, esthetic judgments, and judgments of fact. Unity, certainty, and stability are qualities of life which every man should desire to attain. The teaching that “the end justifies the means” is ethically wrong. Arguments of immediate expediency, failing to evaluate the total situation in a moral light, are erroneous. No human being is ever a means to another’s end. Every man count