General Quotes - Themes

• Heterosexual relationships


  'Be fruitful and increase in number
• Homosexual relationships


  'you shall not lie with a man as with a woman... it is an abomination
• Sex before marriage


  'flee from sexual immorality
• Sex outside marriage


  'you shall not commit adultery' - one of the ten commandments
• Contraception


  'before i formed you in the womb i knew you
• Marriage


  'a man... is united to his wife and they become one flesh
• Cohabitation


  'the sexual act must take place exclusively within marriage
• Divorce


  'If a man divorces his wife for any reason other than unchastity, he involves her in adultery
• Nature of family


  'increase in number
• Role of parents


  'fathers...bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord
• Role of children


  'obey your parents'

  
  

  'honour your father and mother
• Gender discrimination and prejudice

  'nor is there male or female, for you are all one in Christ'

  
  

  'male and female, he created them in the image of God'

  
  

  Eve made from Adam's rib

  
  

  'your husband will rule over you
• Origins of the universe

  'In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth
• Value of the world

  'God has made the universe and designed it with his hands
• Duty of humans to protect the world

  'as good stewards... of God's varied grace
• The use of natural resources, pollution


  'The earth is the Lord's and everything in it
• Animal experimentation


  'they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
• The use of animals for food

  'everything that lives and moves shall be food for you'

  
  

  'All tremble at violence, all fear death' The Buddha
• Origins of life


  Genesis
• Abortion


  'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you'

  
  

  -Goes against the sanctity of life
• Euthanasia


  - It goes against the sanctity of life

  
  

  'what I teach is suffering and the cessation of suffering
• Afterlife


  heaven 'he will wipe away every tear'

  
  

  hell - 'where there will be weeping'

  
  

  'whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
• Who created the universe?

  'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
• Design argument - everything is so intricately made it must have a designer


  -Paley's watch

  
  

  -Newton's thumb

  
  

  - Swinburn probability
• First cause argument - there must be an uncaused cause that made everything happen

  Thomas Aquinas
• Miracles


  - Jesus walking on water

  
  

  - RESURRECTION

  
  

  - Marie Bailly was ill at Lourdes, water poured on her and she was healed
• How science might challenge the belief in God

  'The Big Bang does not contradict the divine act of creation. Rather it requires it' - Pope Francis
• Evil and suffering


  - the result of free will
• Visions


  - Mary at Lourdes

  
  

  - Saul experienced blinding light and was spoken to by Jesus, converted to Christianity
• Nature as a way of understanding God


  'the sky proclaim the work of his hands
• Peace


  'He will judge between nations and settle disputes for people
• Forgiveness


  'Forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us
• Reconciliation


  'while we were enemies with God, we were reconciled with him through the death of his own son
• Justice


  'I believe in Justice' - D.L
• Greed


  'For the love of money is the a root of all kinds of evil'

  
  

  Three poisons
• Retaliation


  'turn to the other cheek
• Helping the poor


  'what you do for one...you do for me
• Reasons for crime


  Poverty, upbringing, mental illness, addiction, greed, hate, opposition to unjust law
• Retribution


  - "an eye for an eye" in the Old Testament - Jesus opposed this in the New Testament
• Deterrence


  - protects the community

  (love thy neighbour)