Explain what Christians believe about the sanctity of human life, especially their responsibility for those at the beginning and end of life. Use bible passages and Christian Church teaching to support your answer.

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Joseph Leadbetter

AO1: Explain what Christians believe about the sanctity of human life, especially their responsibility for those at the beginning and end of life. Use bible passages and Christian Church teaching to support your answer.

The Sanctity of Human life promotes the belief that God gives the gift of life and that human beings should not end it. Life is a gift that has been given to us by God and that therefore it is sacred and cannot be altered by anyone other than God. These views can be determined by other factors such as compassion.

Some people believe that human life is to be respected above all other forms of life. Regarding human life as sacred means, it is to be treated as holy and so everything should be done to preserve it. In the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2258, it clearly states that ‘no one can claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being.’ This means that under no circumstances can be a person allowed to take an innocent person’s life. They believe that God sanctified life by becoming human, and the way that Jesus suffered without attempting to do anything to cut short his sufferings shows that life is not to be ended except when God decides.

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All beliefs about the beginning and the end of life are taken from the bible. In 1 Samuel 2:6 “The Lord brings earth and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.” it tells us that it is God’s duty to bring death and make life, and that no one is allowed to alter what God intends for us from the beginning to the end of life. The belief stated here is that God is in control of the end of our lives

The beginning of life is a debated subject whether it begins ...

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