marriage and the family

Traditional Christian views (3)

Sex joins them as ”one flesh” so should be done within marriage

Shouldn’t be ”sexually immoral” so don’t have lots of partners

Proper place to raise a family is in a marriage so premarital sex is wrong

Modern Christian views (4)

• Sex help shows love between a couple

• Seen as step towards commitment (”love thy neighbour”)

• Society accepts premarital sex so church should too

• Should use conscience to use what’s right

Christian views on adultery (cheating) (3)

Couples promise to be faithful

”you shall not commit adultery”

Marriage is exclusive

Quote about bodies

”You do not belong to yourselves but to God”

Reasons against homosexuality (5)

”do not have sexual relationships with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable”

”go forth and multiply”

”God hates that”

Adam and Eve

Marriage must be both sexes to be religiously sanctioned

Reasons for homosexuality (3)

Humans ”had compassion on them”

David and jonathon from the bible had a same sex relationship

Everyone is made in the image of God

Quotes about families (4)

“Honour your father and mother”

“Children, obey your parents”

“Family is the community…begin to honour God”

“Jesus said ‘let the children come to me’”

Family planning quotes

”be fruitful and increase in number”

”go forth and multiply”

Family planning attitudes (2)

Methodist, Protestant, CoE → contraception is allowed to protect mothers health and strengthen relationship and can lead to less divorce

quotes about divorce (5)

man is ”so hard to teach” so can divorce

”a man must leave his father and his mother to unite with his wife”

”no human being must separate what God has joined together”

“commits adultery if he marries some other woman”

”a husband must not divorce his wife”

4 different attitudes to divorce and remarriage

Catholic → should never divorce or remarry as disrespectful to God

CoE→ not ideal but may be the best thing so remarriage is allowed too

Liberals → some situations where it’s best, but cannot remarry in another church

Humanist → situation ethics about everyone involved

Quotes about gender equality (5)

”so God created man in his image, male and female he created them”

”’I will make a helper suitable for him’”

“made a woman from the man’s ribs”

“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands”

“He who loves his wife loves himself”

Attitudes to gender (3)

Roman → should have equal and both equal in the eyes of God but only men can become priests etc

Evangelical→ should not speak in church etc and men be head of the family

Liberals → completely equal in all aspects so can be priests etc