What do Christians believe about their responsibility for other people?

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Josh Busby

R.S. Coursework Part 2A

AO1 - What do Christians believe about their responsibility for other people?

On the subject of prejudice and discrimination, Christians believe in acceptance, tolerance and understanding. In their beliefs, they refer to Jesus’ story of The Good Samaritan, Luke 10: 25-37. In this story, Jesus describes who our neighbour is. It tells us about how a man was left half-dead by robbers, and not helped by people of his own race, yet he was helped by a member of a different religion. The crowd listening to Jesus expected the Samaritan to kill the Jew, who was left for dead, but instead was bandaged and taken care of by him. Even though the Samaritan was against the Jews, he had mercy on the injured man, regardless of what religion he was. This tells Christians to have mercy on everyone, even those of a different religion, and to look after and care for all.

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Another example of what Christians believe is the story of the Centurion’s Servant. The centurion, who was a different race from Jesus, realised that Jesus would be unclean if he entered a non-Jewish house, according to Jewish law. The centurion believed that Jesus would be able to heal his servant from where he was. Jesus did so, saying “I have not found such great faith even in Israel.” Jesus admired the simple faith of the gentile. Christians believe from this story that they should respect other religions and appreciate customs of other religions.

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