The role of Christian morality in the reconstruction of the world

We are starting a new year and, as always, there is a great expectation that it will be better than the previous. Health, harmony, social peace, an end to corruption, extinction of prejudices, solution to the violence and crime problem, the closure of military conflicts, here are some aspirations we all dream of.

The question then arises is whether the evangelical morality may somehow contribute to these purposes to be achieved.

The theme was focused in this journal by at least two occasions: in Special Issue 36 - http://www.oconsolador.com.br/36/especial.html - and editorial issue 136 - http://www.oconsolador.com.br/ano3/136/editorial.html.

The Gospel morality, as the spiritists not ignore, received with Spiritism not only sanction, but the certainty of its expansion around the world to achieve a known prophecy uttered by Jesus in the prophetic sermon called "Rise up many false prophets who will deceive many people, and because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the Earth, for a testimony to all nations." (Matthew 24:11 to 14)

Focusing directly to the contribution to the spread of Spiritism and a better understanding of evangelical teachings, Kardec wrote: "Thanks to established communications now and permanently among men and the invisible world, the evangelical law, taught to all people by the spirits themselves, will not be dead letter, because everyone will understand it and they will be insistently asked to put it into practice, by the advice of their spiritual guides. Instructions of spirits are really the voices that come from Heaven enlighten men and invite them to practice the Gospel". (The Gospel According to Spiritism, Introduction, item I)

The reconstruction of the world is, however, a task for several generations, because charity and fraternity are feelings that have been born and fruit in people's hearts. They do not happen by decree or by imposition, as Kardec recalled in a lecture recorded in the book "Spirit Journey from 1862," p. 83: "Fraternity, as well as charity, is not imposed nor decreed, is something that exists in the heart and not a system that will be born, if it does not then its house. (...) Before making a thing for men, we must train men for the thing, how they form workers, before entrusting them with a job." And the way to do so with the spiritist understanding, is the application of the moral teachings of Christ, "for being the only one who can make men better." "When men march under that banner, men will give hands fraternally, instead of condemn and curse, for reasons that almost never understand." (Posthumous Works, p. 140)

Someone must ask: Why so much emphasis on the Jesus moral teaching? The answer is simple: it is the moral teaching, is a living force whose moral power that we are not able to assess, as the Encoder of Spiritism emphasized very well in the text transcribed below:

"Given this divine code incline unbelievers. This is a land where every service can be together, the banner under which everyone can shelter, whatever their beliefs, because it was never the object of religious strife, always and everywhere raised by dogmatic issues.

"For men, especially, the moral teaching of Jesus is a rule of conduct that covers all circumstances in public or private life, the precepts of all social relations based on the most rigorous justice, and is, finally, and above all the surefire further path to happiness..." (The Gospel According to Spiritism," Introduction, item 1)