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Christians Attitudes To Abortion

'Sancity of Life' - this is the belief that life is scared or holy and that it belongs to God. 

- Life begins at birth,

- Life begins at viability,

- Life begins at conception.

Teaching - 'Do not commit murder' from Exodus 20:13

Famous Quote - 'If you do make a mistake, do not destory the life.. because also to that child God says: I have called you by your name, I have carved you in the plam of my hand: you are mine.

Famous quote - 'Abortion has been considered to be murder since the first centuries of the Church, and nothing permits it to be considered otherwise from Pope Paul VI (1970)

Famous quote - 'Although the foetus is to specially respected and protected, nonetheless, the life of the foetus is not absolutely sacroscant if it endangers the life of the mother from (Church of England Board of Social Responsibility Report)

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Christians Attitudes to Fertility Treatment

Famous quote - 'Hannah had no children.. because the Lord had closed her womb from 1 Samuel 1:2,6

Famous quote - 'So in everything, do to otherswhat you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets from Matthew 7:12

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Christians Attitudes to Euthanasia and Suicide

Type 1 - Active Euthanasia

Type 2 - Compulsory Euthanasia

Type 3 - Voluntary Euthanasia

TYpe 4 - Passive Euthanasia

Quote - 'Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you! So if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy and you yourselves are his temple' from Cornithians 3:16-17

Quote - 'Look at the birds:they do not sow seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns;yet your father inheaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds' from Matthew 22:39

Quote - 'Do not commit murder' from Exodus 20:13

John Paul II the previous Pope was also very much against the idea of Euthanasia.

Quote - 'Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of Gods'

Quote - 'Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you? from 1 Corinthians 3:16

Quote - 'Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you? from 1 Corinthians 3:16

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Christians Beliefs about the way the use of Animal

Type 1 - Animals in Captivity

TYpe 2 - Animals for Food

Type 3 - Animals for Research

Type 4 - Hunting Animals 

Quote - And God blessed them and God said to them 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and aubdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every lving thing that moves on the earth' from Genesis 1:28

Quote - "To deny animals rights is not to underestimate our obligation with regard to animla welfare. It is possible to oppose cruelty and expolation without getting trapped into arguments about 'right"

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Christians Beliefs about the way the use of Animal

Type 1 - Animals in Captivity

TYpe 2 - Animals for Food

Type 3 - Animals for Research

Type 4 - Hunting Animals 

Quote - And God blessed them and God said to them 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and aubdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every lving thing that moves on the earth' from Genesis 1:28

Quote - "To deny animals rights is not to underestimate our obligation with regard to animla welfare. It is possible to oppose cruelty and expolation without getting trapped into arguments about 'right"

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