Christian Attitudes Towards Transplant Surgery

Question 1

+Sharing is caring :)

Answer 1

‘The man who has two tunics should share with the man who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.’ (John the Baptist)

Question 2

+Jesus’ teachings

Answer 2

e.g. the Good Samaritan, the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, the Golden Rule, Healing Miracles, Love Your Neighbor.

Question 3

+Dualism

Answer 3

‘By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and from dust you will return.’ Don’t need your body intact.

Question 4

+Catholic teachings

Answer 4

‘There is an everyday heroism made up of gestures and sharing, big or small … a particularly praise worthy example … is the donation of organs in a morally acceptable manner.’ (Pope John Paul II)

Question 5

-Playing God

Answer 5

Playing God/God has a plan/Imago dei. ‘For it was created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.’ (Psalm 139)

Question 6

-Sanctify of life

Answer 6

All life is holy and belongs to God.

Question 7

-Full bodily resurrection.

Answer 7

‘many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised’ (Matthew 27)

Question 8

-Difficulties/slippery slope

Answer 8

Whose life is more important than another, who gets the organ? How can you put a price on human life?

Question 9

Saves lives

Answer 9

One donor can save as many as 50 lives