Explain the beliefs Christians hold about their responsibility for those at the beginning and of their lives.

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Sanctity of Life Coursework

AO1-Explain the beliefs Christians hold about their responsibility for those at the beginning and of their lives.

        Christians believe that human beings do hold responsibility for those at the beginning and end of their lives. Christians believe that God can be the only one who takes life away because he is the only one able to give life. I am going to be talking about abortion and euthanasia. Abortion comes at the beginning of life and it means expulsion from the womb, in other words the baby has been murdered. It goes against the teachings of God.  As does euthanasia, which comes at the end of life.  The literal interpretation of this means an easy death.  Although people who commit this sin believe they do it as a mercy killing.  Christians believe that life starts from the moment of conception and is precious and sacred till the moment of natural death.

        We look to evidence from the bible about abortion, as to tell us what to think about this highly sensitive subject.  In Genesis 9:6 it reads “God said to Noah, whoever shed the blood of man, shall his blood be shed; for in the image of god had god made man…”.  This means that the person who kills someone who is living, like a baby, will be judged at judgement day and will probably be sent to hell.  We know that one of the judgements is on how we treat others which abortion obviously goes against.  In addition to this the murderer will also be killing a part of god because he made people in the image of himself so they will be judged badly on how they love and serve god.  Abortion also disobeys one of the Ten Commandments, “thou shall not kill”, which come from god himself.

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        Another piece of evidence which comes from the bible, comes from psalm 139, where it reads “when my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb, when I was growing in secret, you know that I was there – you saw me before I was born…”.  This means that god gives life and we were chosen to exist by god.  Therefore he can be the only one to take life away.  It also signals that even in the womb god is aware of the baby and if this is so then you are a human being and ...

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