Here, abortion would be permissible even by Natural law followers, who believe in the sanctity of life. The sanctity of life can be deconstructed into weak and strong theses. The strong sanctity of life, the pro-life argument, strongly asserts that God is the creator of life and creates us in his image. We are therefore different to animals (God blew into Adam’s nostrils, not into other animals). This brings up the idea that humans are different, or special.
The strongest criticism to the free will defense is that God, being an all-powerful being, should be able to create free agents who make only good choices, freely. There is the option of having no free will, and no evil, and have free will and having evil, but the third option, which is less known, is the option that God can create a world where free will is possible, and evil does not exist. This would be possible
Therefore, man is obligated to repent and put his faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation and bear good fruit or face the righteous judgement of God. In Romans 1:20, Paul reveals that the natural world testifies to a supernatural cause. According to the scientific evidence, nature itself had a beginning. As Dr. Frank Turek points out, the supernatural cause that created nature must be spaceless (Because it created space), timeless (Because it created time), immaterial (Because it created matter), powerful (Because it created out of nothing), intelligent (Because the creation event and the universe was precisely designed), and personal (Because it made a choice to convert a state of nothing into something; impersonal forces don’t make choices). This evidence is consistent with Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Paul eluded to this when he said that God’s invisible qualities, eternal power, and divine nature is clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Rom.1:20).
Which Aquinas believed reflects the Eternal Law. The Natural Law refers to the moral law of God which has been built into each human nature; however it can be seen by everyone as it does not depend on belief in God as long as you use you reason when faced with a situation then you have done the
This further reinforces that we have no choice or influence on our lives and the events that happen, so therefore God will know the ethical decisions we will make as he has already predestined them in our lives. Hard determinism is the teaching that denies humanity has free will and believes that all actions have a prior cause. It removes moral responsibility for our actions. Hard determinists would therefore agree with the statement above, and will believe that God does infact know what ethical decisions we will make as he has already perceived it. This idea links to predestination in the fact that it believes everything in the universe- even human action- has a cause which precedes it.
It can be seen as a good approach to morality as it does not allow people from different denominations such as cultures or where you are born or in different situation they may find themselves to build their own moral rules and framework to life, it is personal but is guided by these innate rules. Religious people also share natural law ideas as they argue that there is an eternal unchanging part of morality which remains unchanged regardless of personal opinions and preferences. They believe that God created them with a purpose and that all the rules guiding them from natural law help them to fulfil this purpose. Christianity has a great deal of support for the view that there is a natural law of morality. The Christian understanding of this concept is based largely upon the work of Thomas Aquinas as he explained that faith and reason are closely related.
The Bible takes for granted that every person in their desire to excuse their actions makes a decision as the free act of an intelligent, moral, responsible being, asserting himself against the will of his Maker. The Bible also assumes that every person must learn either from the law that is written on his own heart (Rom.1:15) or from the revelation furnished by God to mankind, first to the Hebrew church in the Old Testament Scriptures and then to the Christian Church and through it to the whole world. The nature of sin is usually described in Scripture in terms that clearly indicate its relation to the Divine will or law and leaves no uncertainty as to its character. (Whitelaw) Most Christians believe that sin originated with Adam and Eve but according to Scripture, sin first made its appearance in the angelic race. Nothing more is recorded than the simple fact that the angels sinned (2 Pet.2:4).
Kant devised two different types of imperatives which allow us to make our decisions, hypothetical imperatives are the rules that we follow to attain a personal outcome or a selfish wish whereas categorical imperatives are intrinsically right. His first categorical imperative was meant to establish that humans should only act according to a law that can be universalised. ‘’Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law’’ – (Kant the moral order). The second of the imperatives is that we as humans should never use another human as a means to an end, treat them all with value. ‘’Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means to an end’’.
Christian Worldview Colossians 2:8 states “See to it that no one takes you captive through hallow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ”. Those who delight in the law of the Lord and meditate upon it day and night are like trees planted by the rivers of living water that produce fruit in their season, whose leaf shall not wither, and whatever they do will prosper. (Psalm 1:3).The meaning of this is “fruit of the tree” depiction that the root of the tree represents your worldview your beliefs, the trunk of the tree is your attitude and the fruit is your actions or your failure to act (lecture notes 1.1 Worldview Govt 200 p.1). WORLDVIEW ASSIGNMENT
They argue that our behavioural aspects originate only from the environmental factors of our upbringing. From my personal point of view, one theory cannot simply be used to explain human behaviour, because there are various factors that affect the way a human thinks, speaks, moves and generally acts. It would take a lot of research to prove that simply DNA is what makes our personalities the way they are. The truth of the matter is that it is a combination of both genetics and the environment we surround ourselves in that help define us as beings. For example, a murderer being studied at a local prison could have a psychological disorder, which causes them to interpret the world around them differently, but it also be because of an genetically inherited disease that runs in the family.