It doesn’t value human life as highly as religions, such as Christianity does. The Christian faith believes that human life is very valuable as it is God given. Act utilitarianism can
''A belief in miracles leads to the concept of a God who favours some but not all of his creation'' Discuss. The argument that a belief in miracles leads to an arbitrary and partisan God is from Maurice Wiles, who states that the existence of miracles leads to the assumption that God is not just. This is because, using the example of Moses parting the red sea, he favours the Israelites over the Egyptians due to the fact that Moses has a relationship with God. A more modern example could be the fact that no miracle stopped the killing of millions of Jews in Auschwitz, whilst some miracles in the bible - such as Jesus walking on water - seem trivial in comparison. Therefore, Wiles comes to the conclusion that God's goodness and the concept of miracles are two incompatible ideas.
However, in the New Testament God heals and individual who is blind and lets others die. A strength of Maurice Wiles argument is that it appeals to educated believers of God and scientific laws. This I because Wiles says that the concept of miracles can exist as it is "logically impossible" to prove miracle wrong scientifically. By saying this, Wiles is allowing religious people to also uphold their beliefs in scientific laws. A second strength of Maurice Wile's argument against miracles is that it allows a re-interpretation of miracle.
First proposition I will be discussing is “ one thing is intristically good, namely love; nothing else” only good is good, in and of itself. Actions aren’t intristicaly good or evil, depending on whether they promote the most loving result. Fletcher said that actions are extrinsically good depending on the conseuences or circumstances. Natural law states that actions such as lying are always wrong regardless of the circumstances, but according to fletchers first principles actions such as lying can be justified if the outcome is extrinsically good. The second fundamental priniple is “the ruling norm of a christian decision is love; nothing else”.
The Jews viewed the Gentile culture as unrighteous and not worthy of redemption. But Paul’s words exonerated that claim by the justification of faith of the Gentiles. Again, similarities between culture and human relationships in the biblical perspective, view all people as a creation of God in His
They don't need alcohol; it's only a crutch they use to make their life seem more bearable. But that is a lie too. In my opinion the one and only true way to get through the deceptions of the disease is through the workings of God. Rehab and AA are secondary to surrendering yourself to God. An alcoholic drinks because they need inner healing.
With all of the differences in the dogmas between Christianity and Mormonism, there is strong evidence that these two faiths cannot be linked together solely on the fact that they both believe in Jesus Christ being the savior of mankind. Many Christians believe that Mormonism is not a true Christian religion, although Mormons make the claim that they are based on their faith in the Christ Jesus as the sole savior of the world. Can Mormonism, a polytheistic religion, truly be considered Christian, when Christianity
Christianity teaches that people should not work on the day of Sabbath as God himself didn’t and that it should be the day of rest. However, Jesus didn’t follow these rules and decided to do the most loving thing and heal a sick person on this day even though he wasn’t supposed to. Some could argue that situation ethics and its ideas about love fit into Christian theology perfectly because even Jesus broke rules to do the most loving thing possible. Johns part of the gospels state that “God is love” and from this we can interpret that Christians must live their lives by trying to be Omnibenevolent and doing the most loving thing in all situations no matter how extreme. Fletcher incorporated the quote from the gospels into his ethical theory and devised six propositions and four principles.
the doctrine of works. Free grace versus the doctrine of works deals with how one becomes saved. The Puritans believe that no one can save himself or herself by doing good works or by earning it. (Puritanism par. 2) Instead God gives His free grace so that simply believing on Christ Jesus and having faith in Him might save man.
Biblical texts state that God is forgiving, merciful, loving, omnipotent and above all, good. Yet how can it be true that God forgave the Jewish people for their sins and had the power to prevent the Holocaust but did not do so? It leads to the notion that either God is not all powerful so was not capable of thwarting the atrocities of World War 2, or God is not altogether caring and merciful. Ignaz Maybaum examined this concept further by stating that the Holocaust was God’s judgement over the past. He believed that “Hitler served as a divine instrument for the reconstruction of modern Jewish life.” In his mind it was clear that the death of 6 million Jews took place because as a community, Jews are responsible for each other’s actions and there had been enough sin for God to take necessary action.