R.S Thematic Studies Combined (Units 3 & 4)

Good and Evil Actions

"You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement." C

"The self willed manmukh receives only more punishment." S

Reasons for Crime

"Focus on poverty and sacrificing for the poor." Pope Francis C

"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities." C

"One may run away from the courts.. but where can one go to escape the Lord's Kingdom?" S

"Crying out "Mine Mine!" he spends his life... in ignorance." S

"Drinking it, he forgets his Lord and Master, and is punished." S

Lawbreakers and Types of Crime

"For I was in prison and you came to visit me." C

"You are all one in Christ Jesus." C

"No fear. No hatred." S

Attitudes to Suffering

"Suffering produces perseverance, character.. And hope." C

"But Jesus answered him "no more of this" and touched the man's ear and healed him." C

"People show compassion, then they become immortal." S

"Pain and pleasure are a result of your own actions." S

Aims of Punishment

"Take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth." C

"Do not take revenge, but leave room for God's wrath....lf your enemy is hungry, feed him." C

"Who can say which is less and which is more." S

"Do not be angry with anyone else; look within your own self instead." S

Treatment of Criminals

"The one who loves their children is careful to discipline them." C

"Love and persuasion is the only law of social coherence." S

Attitudes to Forgiveness

"Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us." C

"[Forgive] not seven times, but 77 times." C

"To practise forgiveness is the true fast, good conduct and contentment." S

"Where there is forgiveness, there is God himself." S

Death Penalty

"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed." C

"Life for life, eye for eye." C

"I take no pleasure from the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live." C

"Every life is sacred." Pope Francis C

"He alone has the Power in His Hands. He watches over all." S

The Design Argument (Teleological)

"In the beginning God created the heavens and earth." C

"The heavens declare the glory of God." C

"He himself created himself." S

"He made all the days and nights...the countries, the continents." S

The Argument from Miracles

"The master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine." C

"God always takes care of us." S

Referencing the spring appearing in Guru Nanak and the boulder.

"For me, the true name is the miracle of miracles, I know no other miracle." S

The First Cause Argument (Cosmological)

"The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters...and God said "Let there be light" and there was light." C

"As it pleases Him, He creates the expanse." S

"He is not obtained by intellectual recitation or great cleverness; only by love does the mind obtain Him. " S

Further arguments against the existence of God

"The big bang does not contradict the divine act of creation." Pope Francis C

"He created beings and let them develop according to internal laws which he has." Pope Francis C

"He watches over all." S

God is beyond science, he is not part of our universe

"The concerns of science and religion are not mutually exclusive but are complementary." sikh belief but no specific source

Special Revelation and Enlightenment

"I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams." C

"He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God. " C

Referring to the revelation from the Angel Gabriel

"The creator Lord Himself causes the Guru to chant it."

S

"By myself, I do not even know how to speak; I speak all that the Lord commands." S

General Revelation

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." C

"I am going to send a flood upon the earth to destroy every living being." C

"He is the Master who has made the world bloom." S

Different Ideas about the Divine

"There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments." C

Description of God's nature as benevolent and omnipotent

"You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise." C

"God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son." C

"The cherisher Lord is so very merciful and wise." S

"All powerful Lord comes to dwell within the mind." S

"You are unknowable,; through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, You are known." S

The Value of Revelation and Enlightenment

"Drink your wine with a merry heart." C

"Drinking it, his intelligence departs, and madness enters his mind" S