rpaper 1 trickies

• St Paul on homosexuality: "Neither the sexually immoral or the homosexuals will enter the kingdom of heaven"
• St Paul on premarital intercourse: "If the unmarried cannot control themselves then they should marry. Better to be married then burn in vein desire."
• Catholics dislike divorce because in the Bible it says "what god has joined man must not seperate"
• What did Jesus says that shows that quality of life is important?

  "I have came so you could live life in all its fullness"
• What two different ways do Christians interpret God telling humanity to "rule over" the earth?

  Stewardship

  Dominion
• Christian quotes supporting abortion:

  • Methodist church teaches that withholding passion is worse.
  • "Treat others as you'd like to be treated"
  • "I have come for you to live life in all its fullness"
• Christian quotes for the death penalty:

  • "Let justice roll like a river"
  • "You shall not kill" <- killing killers is fair
  • "Eye for an eye"
• Bible quote about the sanctity of life: "I knit you in your mother's womb"
• Who is Elizabeth Fry?

  A social reformer who made prisoners nicer, including allowing them to read the Bible and learn to sew.
• Who is John Howard?

  A prison reformer who made prisons have clean water and seperated genders.
• St Augustine's theodicy is that God is good and it is human's fault that suffering exists
• Iraneous' theodicy is that humans have to be free to develop in God's likeness.
• A criticism of the theodicies is that the free will isn't worth the suffering that it causes.
• One reason that Buddhists believe in the sanctity of human life is Thatagatagarbha, all humans have the potential to achieve Buddha nature.
• Weakness of the Dharma, the Dalai Lama said "Karuna is more important than religion".
• Thic Quang Duc is a monk who burnt himself to death in protest of injustices in south Vietnam.
• Martin Luther King Jr said that people needed to "learn to live together or perish like fools"
• The tale of the rich man and Lazarus is where the rich man doesn't help Lazarus, and then Lazarus goes to heaven and the rich man goes to hell.
• What do the salvation army do?

  They help recovering addicts and make soup kitchens.
• In the Bible it says to "speak up for those who have no voices