ETHICAL VALUES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT         How we live our lives is governed by ethics. Ethics is "human moral conduct according to principles of what is good or right to do." Our ethical values today descend primarily from a Christian ethic in which "a truly ethical decision, we are told, must be spontaneous, undirected, free - the individual's unfettered and uncoerced response to each new decision-demanding situation." The ethical values of today, especially Christian ethics, …showed first 75 words of 862 total…

…showed last 75 words of 862 total…require asceticism, but it does ask that man live every waking moment in the awareness that he is not alone, for God is present." Works Cited Achtemeier, Paul J., Harper's Bible Dictionary. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1985. Anderson, Bernhard W., Understanding the Old Testament. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall,                  1957. Buttrick, George A., The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. New York: Abingdon         Press, 1962, Hertzberg, Arthur, Judaism. New York: George Braziller, 1962. White, R. E. O., Biblical Ethics. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1979.