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According to Webster's New World Dictionary, ethics is "the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment. The system of morals of a particular person, religion, or group. Morals, "is dealing with or capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, of teaching or in accordance with the principles of right and wrong" (2002).
As it pertains to the Christian perspective, Nelson's Bible Dictionary states that biblical ethics is "living righteously, doing what is good and refraining from what is evil in accordance with the will of God. The term refers not to human theories or opinions about what is right or wrong but to God's revealed truth about these matters" (1995).
Ethics are derived from the Greek word meaning custom and equivalent. Morals come from the Latin word expressing the same meaning. The purpose of ethics is to show the difference between right and wrong. Hughes believes it is not safe to say secular and Christian ethics should agree and be the same just because......

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