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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’