themes quotes

• Nature of families

  • 'Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.'

  • 'Honour your mother and father
• Sex outside marriage

  • 'You shall not commit adultery'

  • 'Flee trom sexual immorality
• Homosexuality

  • 'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;

  it is an abomination.'

  • 'Flee from sexual immorality.
• Contraception

  • 'Take not life which God made sacred'

  • 'Love thy neighbour.'

  • 'Be fruitful and multiply.'

  • 'Every sexual act should have the possibility of creating life
• Marriage

  • 'One flesh'

  • 'Be fruitful and multiply .'

  • 'What God has joined together, let no man separate
• Divorce

  • 'Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.'

  • 'Love thy neighbour.'

  • 'What God has joined together, let no man separate'

  • 'till death do us apart
• Gender equality

  • 'There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ of Jesus'

  • 'Love thy neighbour.'

  • 'So God created mankind in His own image: in the image of God. He created them: male and female he created them
• Creation of the world

  • 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'

  • 'it was good
• Value of the world

  • 'His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen'

  • 'Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky' (dominion)
• Abuse of the world

  • 'God made the world and gave the duty of stewardship to humans'

  • 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it
• Use of animals

  • 'Everything that lives and moves will be food for you'

  • 'love thy neighbour' (counter argument quote)

  • 'The righteous care for the needs of their animals.
• Human life

  • 'So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them.'

  • 'I, your Lord, give life, and I take it away?
• Death & afterlife

  • 'Those whose good deeds weigh heavy will be successful'

  • Parable of the sheep and the goats: 'Then they [the goats] will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous [the sheepl to eternal life.
• Reasons for war

  • 'God does not like arrogant, boastful people'

  • 'Those who have been attacked are permitted to take up arms because they have been wronged'

  • 'If you have to respond to an attack make your response proportionate'

  • 'Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
• Holy War and Just War

  • 'Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you...if they cease let there be no hostility'

  • 'Fight them until there is no more persecution, and worship is devoted to God.'

  • ' To anyone who fights in God's way.. we shall give a great reward'

  • 'If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also!
• Nuclear war

  • 'Take not life that God has made sacred'

  • 'Fight in God's cause against those who fight you, but do not overstep the limits
• Victims of war and pacifism

  Victims of war

  • 'Whoever saved a life, it would be as if they saved the life of all mankind'

  • 'Treat others how you would like to be treated!'

  
  

  Pacifism

  • 'If they incline towards peace you must incline towards it'

  • 'Blessed are the peace makers!
• Violent protest and terrorism

  • 'Do not kill.'

  • 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
• Intention & why commit a crime

  Intention

  'Actions are judged according to intentions'

  
  

  Why commit a crime?

  • 'God commands justice...and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice'

  • 'Actions are judged according to intentions
• Views of lawbreakers

  • 'Actions are judged according to intentions'

  • 'O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger and those who are in authority over you'

  • 'God commands justice...and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice'

  • 'Cut off the hands of thieves, as punishment for what they've done — a deterrent from God' (thieves)

  • Sanctity of life
• Prison & community service

  • 'O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger and those who are in authority over you'

  • 'God commands justice...and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice
• Corporal punishment

  • 'O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger and those who are in authority over you'

  • 'God commands justice...and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice'

  • 'Cut off the hands of thieves, as punishment for what they've done — a deterrent from God'

  • 'Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.'

  • 'You have heard that it was said, 'eye for eye, and tooth for tooth'

  • Sanctity of life
• Forgiveness

  • 'Let them pardon and forgive. Do you not wish that God should forgive you? God is most forgiving and merciful.'

  • 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us'

  • 'Jesus said: Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
• Death penalty

  • 'O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger and those who are in authority over you'

  • 'God commands justice...and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice'

  • 'You have heard that it was said, 'eye for eye, and tooth for tooth'

  • Sanctity of life