Explain the beliefs that Christians hold about the responsabilities for those at the beginning and end of their lives.
Explain the beliefs that Christians hold about the responsabilities for those at the beginning and end of their lives
Abortion was legalised in 1967 because too many “back-street” abortions were taking place using knitting needles or other potentially fatal methods. Many babies were born with disabilities and women sometimes died or were seriously injured. The abortion law states that after 24 weeks a child is not to be aborted unless the mothers’ life is in danger. This is because at that stage a baby is fairly well developed. Christians believe that life is sacred and many believe that it begins at conception, others believe life starts when the child starts having brain waves. Whatever their personal opinions on the point at which life starts, pretty much all disagree on aborting a babies’ life after that point, killing an unborn child would be just the same as killing a young born child. Christians believe that God has a plan for our life, a purpose decided before we were born and aborting a child would mean terminating that purpose. A child is without defence and has a right to carry out his life given to him by god, Christians believe that they have a duty to protect that child. Even in the case of a rape, the man committing the crime should bear the consequence not the defenceless baby, is a baby born as a result not like making good of bad, a life is a gift from god. Even if a conception was not meant, god still has a purpose for that life. Jeremiah it says “before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. Christians believe that your life is planned by god even before conception in psalm 139 it says, “when I was woven together in the depth of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body. “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to me.” This shows that god has a purpose for you and your life before the sperm reaches the egg and until the time of that purpose has elapsed. Aborting a baby is going in the way of gods’ plan, this is also true for the people at the end of their life, god has a plan for each of us and it is against gods’ will for you to end your life. One of the Ten Commandments simply states “thou shall not kill” We humans have no write to ends someone’s’ life. In Corinthians 3:16-17 it says that our body is god’s temple, in other we are gods’ dwelling place and in genesis god says we are created in his’ image. If god is in us and controls us we have no write to end our life or someone else’s life. In job 1:21 it says “the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. God gives life and is the only one who can take it away.
