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Shows Sanctity of Life
Genesis: 'God created man in his own image’
God told Jews to increase population
Genesis: ‘Be fruitful and increase in number’
Argument for abortion
Talmud: ‘If a woman is having difficulty in childbirth, one may dismember the foetus’
The Decalogue (Best Sowaa)
Exodus: ‘You shall not murder’
Creation
Genesis: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’
Nicene Creed (God the Father)
Nicene Creed: ‘maker of heaven and earth’
Nicene Creed (God as one)
Nicene Creed: ‘We believe in one God’
Nicene Creed (God the son)
Nicene Creed: ‘For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven’
Nicene Creed (God the spirit)
Nicene Creed: ‘Giver of life’
Last Supper
John: ‘A new command I give you. Love one another’
Last Supper (Eucharist)
Luke: ‘This is my body given for you’
Importance of loving others
Matthew: ‘Love your neighbour’
Jesus as loving
Luke: ‘Father forgive them. For they do not know what they are doing’
God as omnibenevolent
John: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son’
Resurrection
Corinthians: ‘But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead. How can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?’
Jesus as a sacrifice for sin
John: Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world’
Eschatology
John: ‘I am the resurrection and the life’
Final Day of Judgement
Matthew: Parable of goats and sheep
Original sin
Genesis: Adam and Eve
Free will
Genesis: Adam and Eve misuse free will
Story of Job
Job: Explains that suffering is a test, Job does not lose faith in God
Crucifixion
Mark: Jesus is crucified, Jesus suffering shows humands can suffer as Jesus is seen as a role model.
Vale of soul making
Irenaeus: Argued humans have to develop into the likeness of God.
Abortion (against)
Jeremiah ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you’
Active Euthanasia=Murder
‘You shall not murder’:Exodus
Passive Euthanasia
Ancient Rabbi: Doctor can ‘Remove that which is preventing the soul from departing’
Pikuach Nefesh
Talmud: Refers to Jews not losing their lives trying to keep the mitzvot.
Suicide
Talmud: Forbids suicide, voluntary may be seen as suicide
Jewish Life after death
Olam Ha Ba, Gan Eden, Gehinnom
Life after death Judaism
Isaiah: ‘But your dead will live Lordd, their bodies will rise’
Sabbath
Genesis: ‘On the seventh day he rested’
Stewardship
Genesis: ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant’
Most Jews believe science and religion can exist together
Maimonides: Creation story is not ‘intended to be in all its parts literal’
More Stewardship
Genesis: ‘Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky’
Human’s given dominion
Genesis: ‘cultivate it and guard it’ (garden of Eden)
Animals should be treated with respect
Psalms: ‘The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it’
Animals for food
Genesis: ‘I give them to you for food’ (God to Noah)
Animal experimentation
Pikuach Nefesh, Sanctity of life.
Covenant with Abraham
Genesis: ‘I will make your name great’
Covenant with Moses
Exodus: ‘you will be my treasured posession’
Mount Sinai
Exodus: Ten commandments given
God as one
Exodus: ‘You shall have no other Gods before me’
God as law-giver
Exodus: ‘obey me fully and keep my covenant’
God as judge
Maimonides: God ‘punishes those who trangress him’
Shekhinah
Exodus: ‘The Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush’
God guiding Israelites
Exodus: ‘The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way’
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