The Catholic Church has a magisterium - its teachings have a God-given authority that is equal to the authority of scripture. The Pope has even got the power to make infallible statements - statements that cannot be questioned. Within Protestant churches, the church has an advisory role. It can recommend one action over another, it can condemn certain actions entirely - you can even be kicked out of the church for certain actions. However, the individual is still left to decide where to stand in relation to church teaching.
Religion is already something that gives people rules, regulations and restrictions to live by; however, divorce is a thing which can determine who you spend the rest of your life with and is so important that everyone should have the choice to make that decision. Many religions allow divorce but even then have loop holes or certain ways of going about getting a divorce. Christianity, in general has a negative outlook on divorce, however Christian denominations vary in their tolerance of it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church strictly forbids divorce, in many cases divorcing your partner and marrying someone else is regarded as committing adultery. This opinion is often held because of the fact that you have consummated your marriage with your partner; hence you must stay with them for the rest of your life.
They consider the possibility that human beings are controlled by external forces and are not able to exercise free will. The argument that free will and determinism are compatible, is best challenged by soft determinists. This is the idea that our actions are controlled by external forces to a certain extent, but we should still be held accountable for what we choose to do. Finally, predestination claims that a deity is the ultimate cause who determines all human actions. All Christians to a certain extent believe that free will plays an important role in their lives (most commonly seen in their faith and actions).
As American Christians, we always believe that if we do good deeds or help ourselves we go to heaven. This however is completely inaccurate. The Bible clearly states that we must accept God is above all else and repent. It is then that through Jesus Christ we will be made anew by walking the path with him. We do not need to do anything.
The decision is usually made when the person asking for it, is suffering from an terminal or incurable disease. 2. Define the term Redemptive Suffering Redemptive Suffering is a notion in regards to Euthanasia. Adherents offer up their pain and their suffering in this world to the pain and suffering of the crucified Christ. Through the belief in redemptive suffering, the adherents do not require euthanasia and the notion of euthanasia becomes redundant for true believers in Christ.
Explain how death and dying have changed with the shift from premodern to post modern societies? According to some Death and Dying has evolved into a modern society of self denials around the issue of death. “From a psycological perspective individuals use denial as as a defence mechanism when confronted with events of a potentially tramatising nature” (Freud, 1940). It can be viewed that since death is no longer witnessed in modern lives that some have become afraid and would rather deny the reality of death. “The British socail anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer and the French historian Phillippe Aries are recognised as early proponents of the idea of the existence of death-denying societies” (Walter, 1991).
Catholics believe that only good works from people was the only way to get to salvation, but Luther was trying to make people know that you do not need to pay to be saved you just got to follow God’s rules, be good, and follow Jesus´ footsteps. Luther translated the New Testament so that people could learn about Jesus and his teachings. The church back then made Catholics fear God, they did this to take advantage of Catholics and make them pay money to the church. Luther always said that Go was never going to leave us and that he was going to be always with us. He also preached that when the time was right you will go to eternal salvation and not doing by paying.
The Bible clearly spells it out in many cases. One of the first that comes to mind is in Exodus twenty-one which talks about that if someone strikes a pregnant women and causes harm, then he shall be pay life for life (Exodus 21:22-23). As Christians, we are called to a higher lifestyle than those of the world. Christians are supposed to be the example for others to lead them to Christ. We are also supposed to keep our bodies blameless.
The soul or eternal self is called the”Atman”, it is view in the same way as the god head or Brahma. This godhead or eternal being is trapped in the eternal cycles of death and rebirth. This cycle is called” Samsara” The Western view of this cycle of death and rebirth is desirable and mysterious, while the Asian counterpart is unhappy and torturous. The believer is trapped in this “cycle” and is governed by Karma which dictates that every good of evil must be atoned for or reap the benefits of the action .The believer must complete the trials in this life in order to move on to the next plane, or be destined to repeat the same life over until the “mission’ is complete which never happens the first time. One always reaps the benefits of ones actions in this life or the next, ergo if you did well in your prior life you would be born a rich man in the succeeding life consequently if you were evil in a past life you were returned a beggar in the next.
ASSISTED SUICIDE: A RIGHT OR A WRONG? Assisted Suicide: A Right or a Wrong? INTRODUCTION Assisted Suicide is a widely argued ethical issue. Any situation that involves a decision to end one person’s life always turns into a competing ethical dilemma about how the decision should be made. Now a good number of people feel that human life should be preserved whenever possible, regardless of their health condition, for life is a special gift bestowed by God and only he alone decides when to give life and when one’s life should be taken away.