Themes

• Sexuality- Christian

  'Increase in number'

  'Flee from sexual immorality'

  'You shall not commit adultery'

  'You shall not lie with a male as with a woman ; it is an abomination.'

  'Unite together'

  'Be fruitful and multiply'

  Imago Dei

  Jesus forgave the adulterous women
• Sexuality- Judaism

  'You shall not commit adultery'

  'It is not good for man to do be alone. I will make a fitting helper for him'

  'Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence'

  'Be fruitful and multiply'

  Imago Dei
• Marriage-Christianity

  'God blessed them and said to them 'Be fruitful and increase in number''

  'The Church sees marriage between man and woman as central to the stability and health of human society'
• Marriage- Judaism

  'Become one flesh'

  'Be fruitful and multiply'
• Contraception- Christianity

  'In light of Christian principles'- CofE allowed contraception
• Divorce- Christian

  'If a man divorces his wife for any cause other than unchastity he involves her in adultery'
• Divorce- Judaism

  'Let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house'
• Family- Judaism

  'Be fruitful and multiply'

  'Honour your Father and your Mother'

  'Children obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord'
• Relationships- Christianity

  Pope- 'there is no need for people to breed like rabbits'

  'Other methods may be used, provided that this is done in light of Christian principles'

  'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'

  'Go forth and multiply, increase upon the Earth'

  'You shall not covet your Neighbour's wife'
• Relationships- Judaism

  'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'

  'You shall not covet your Neighbour's wife'
• Purpose- Christianity

  'Children thrive, grow and develop within the love and safeguarding of a family'
• Purpose- Judaism

  'Take to heart these instructions... Impress them upon your children'
• Gender- Christianity

  'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them'

  'the punishment affects the woman directly by increasing the toil and pain of having children. He shall rule over you'

  'love thy neighbour'

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

  'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them'

  'the punishment affects the woman directly by increasing the toil and pain of having children. He shall rule over you'
• Homosexuality- Christianity and Judaism

  Sodom and Gomorrah
• Contraception- Christianity and Judaism

  Onan
• Forgiveness- Christianity

  'love the sinner, but hate the sin'
• Contraception- Christianity

  'The use of contraception that... renders procreation impossible is intrinsically evil'

  'every sexual act should have the possibility of creating a new life'
• Sex- Christianity

  'glorify God in your body'
• Adultery/ divorce- Christianity

  'Outside of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin'

  'what God has joined together, let no one separate'

  'till death do us part according to God's holy law'
• Vows- Christianity

  'let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband'

  'wives submit to your own husband as to the Lord'

  Mary and Martha- housewives, Mary listens, listening is more important but Jesus respects both
• Origin- Christianity and Judaism

  'In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth'

  'And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them'

  'The Lord formed man from the dust of the Earth. He blew into his nostrils the breath of life and a man became a living things'

  'So God created mankind in his own image'
• Value- Christianity


  'The Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it'

  'have dominion over... everything living that moveth upon the Earth'

  'Fill the Earth and subdue it. Rule over... every living creature'

  'See to it that you do not spoil and destroy my world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it'
• Value- Judaism

  'The Lord took the mand and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it'

  'have dominion over... everything living that moveth upon the Earth'
• Environment- Christianity

  'be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it, rule over it'

  Parable of the Talents- God final judgement of caring for the Earth

  'Love thy neighbour'

  'you have made him master over our handiwork laying the world at his feet'
• Environment- Jewish

  'you have made him master over our handiwork laying the world at his feet'
• Animals- Christianity

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

  'must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them'- meat/ not meat eating

  Genesis 9:3 permission to eat meat after the flood

  'Every act of irresponsibility towards creatures is an abomination'
• Animals- Judaism

  Genesis 9:3 permission to eat meat after the flood
• Euthanasia- Christian

  'Do not murder'

  'A season is set for everything, a time for every experience which heaven: A time for being born and a time for dying'

  'Love your neighbour'

  Imago Dei
• Euthanasia- Christian

  'Do not murder'

  'A season is set for everything, a time for every experience which heaven: A time for being born and a time for dying'

  'Love your neighbour'

  Imago Dei

  'Let He who gave me my soul take it away'- Rabbi being put to death, told to breathe in smoke
• Abortion- Christianity

  Imago Dei

  Sanctity of life

  'For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb'

  'Thou shall not kill'

  'be fruitful and multiply'

  Agape love
• Abortion- Judaism

  Sanctity of life

  Imago Dei

  'For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb'

  'Thou shall not kill'

  'be fruitful and multiply'

  Pikuach Nefesh- 'Whoever saves...'
• Life After Death- Christianity

  'I believe in the resurrection. of the body and the life everlasting'

  'remember me when you come into your kingdom'

  'God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life'
• Life After Death- Judaism

  SEE JUDAISM CARD
• Dominion- Christianity and Judaism

  'I give you dominion over the fish of the sea and every creature that crawls on it'
• Stewardship- Christianity and Judaism

  'to work and keep it'
• Animals- Judaism

  'the righteous care for the needs of their animals'

  'It is prohibited to cause pain to animals'- Talmud

  'A person is required to feed animals before himself'

  'Respect all creatures'- 7th Law

  'Animals must be allowed to rest on the Sabbath'
• Dominion- Judaism

  'the mandate to have dominion over the Earth was given to both Adam and Eve'
• Justice- Christianity

  Micah 6:8
• Forgiveness- Christianity

  Lord's Prayer