Christian Attitudes Towards Transplant Surgery: Against

Question 1

What are four points?

Answer 1

Playing God/God has a Plan
The Sanctity of Life Teachings
Full bodily Resurrection
Donation can be Unethical

Question 2

Playing God/God has a Plan

Answer 2

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5)
It is a sin to play God
Should not interfere with God’s plan

Question 3

The Sanctity of Life Teachings

Answer 3

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139)
Don’t interfere with God’s creation

Question 4

Full bodily Resurrection

Answer 4

God will resurrect us but need our complete bodies for this to happen
The major creeds of the Church teaches: “I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.”
Christians should believe in the creeds

Question 5

Donation can be Unethical

Answer 5

WHO (World Health Organisation) estimates 10,000 black market operations involving human organs happen every year
These are very dangerous and can be immoral