To define Sanctity of Life To explain threats to the Sanctity of Life To explain how this teaching affects Christian attitudes What is wrong with this situation Sanctity of Life This is THE most important concept in Christian ethics ID: 268959
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Sanctity of Life
To define Sanctity of LifeTo explain threats to the Sanctity of LifeTo explain how this teaching affects Christian attitudes
What is wrong with this situation?Slide2
Sanctity of Life
This is THE most important concept in Christian ethics. It is THE reason why you MUST respect people, & not abuse them. suicideTorture and mutilationSubhuman living or working conditionsBreeding humans for organ donationHuman traffickingProstitution
slavery
abortion
euthanasia
What is the problem behind all these things?
What do you think “Sanctity of Life” means?
Sanctity of Life is the belief that every human life has a unique value, beyond all price – because human beings are the
living image of God
.
They should be specially respected. There is nothing you can give “in exchange” for a human being. Nobody has the right to take the life of another person away.
Write out the definition of Sanctity of Life. Learn it!
Why do human beings have more value than other creatures?
In general, what can you not do to human beings, if they have this unique and important value
?
**Do you agree that humans cannot use other humans for their own benefit? Why?Slide3
Sanctity of Life is the belief that every human life has
___________, beyond all price – because human beings are made ________________. Slide4
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Sanctity of Life is the belief that
every human life has a unique value, beyond all price. This is because human beings are the living image of God. Therefore humans should be specially respected. Nothing can be given “in exchange” for a human being, and no-one has the right to take it away.Explain to your partner, why each of the things below would go against Sanctity of life: SlaveryProstitutionEuthanasiaAbortionSubhuman living conditionsexplain 2 more examples, why they go against Sanctity of Life. **Is some human life more special than others? Eg disabled person vs. Mozart or Barack Obama?
It disrespects a person’s God-given dignity
, as it only values them for the benefit their body can bring
Destroying
something made in God’s image
Humans must not interrupt God’s purpose
for them
It
disrespects a person’s God given freedom
as a person made in the image of God
It
tries to force another human being to work for someone else’s benefit
– it makes one person’s dignity to submit to someone else’s
Taking a life, prevents a person from continuing to do good things and be more Christ-likeSlide6
Christians must defend the Sanctity of Life, everywhere.
How could the Sanctity of Life of these characters be threatened? What could Christians do to make sure they are protected?Choose 2 characters and explain how Their dignity as images of God could be threatenedHow they could be protected by societySlide7
Who would you throw off a hot air balloon that was losing height?
Are their lives all equally special or sacred? Or are some more deserving than others?