Christianity Essay Flashcards
Four Points
- Paul of Tarsus: Agape Love
- Paul of Tarsus: Sexual Teachings
- Sexual Ethics: Homosexuality
- Sexual Ethics: Contraception
- Paul of Tarsus: Agape Love (SUSTAINS)
- Description: Paul teaches that the highest form of love in a Christian setting (1 Corinthians 12:13)
Example: Mother Teresa in Missionaries of Charities
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
‘And now these three remain:
Faith hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 12:13).
- POT: Agape Love (ADAPTS)
- Desmond Tutu’s work as an Anglican bishop in South Africa. Emphasized love, forgiveness, and reconciliation during and after apartheid in South Africa.
(1 Corinthians 13:7)
Love never gives up,
never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance’ (1 Corinthians 13:7).
- POT: Sexual Teachings (SUSTAINS)
Description:
- Taught mutual responsibilities between spouses through respect
1 Corinthians 6:18-19.
Catholic Engaged Encounter, help married couples assume the roles of marriage via the teachings of Paul
Flee from sexual immorality.
All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18-19.
- POT: Sexual Teachings (ADAPTS)
Description:
- Paul urged believers to honour their bodies as temples and reserve sex for marriage (1 Corinthians 7:3-4)
The Anglican Church and some progressive Protestant denominations recognise many Christian couples engage in premarital sex and focus instead on commitment, respect, and responsibility in relationships.
A husband should only have
sexual relations with a wife 1 Corinthiansn 7:16
- Sexual Ethics: Homosexuality (SUSTAINS)
Description:
- Wrong because of value in procreation
- Catholics view homosexuality as a denial of divine and natural law
Leviticus 20:13
- Many Catholic churches today will not marry
If a man lies with a male as with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. Leviticus 20:13
- Sexual Ethics: (ADAPTS)
Description:
God’s all-embracing agape and Jesus’ primary teaching of unconditional love (1 John 4:7-8)
Uniting Church openly accepts gay ministers and facilitates homosexual weddings if they align with the conscience of the minister. Such as Reverend Susan Wickham, an openly gay reverend in Adelaide.
“Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7-8)
- Sexual Ethics: Contraception (SUSTAINS)
Description: Teaching of Procreation
Artificial contraception is a sin as it suppresses God’s intended purpose thus undermining natural law and a God-given purpose sexuality.
(Genesis 1:28)
Natural Family Planning (NFP), which aligns with Natural Law by allowing couples to regulate births without interfering with the body’s natural reproductive process…meeting the needs of adherents in busy contemporary society.
“Be fruitful
and increase in number” (Genesis 1:28)
- Sexual Ethics: Contraception (ADAPTS)
Description:
Protestant Church has no decisive teaching against contraception and is open to all forms of impermanent contraception as a means of addressing volatile population growth within the contemporary world,
(John 13:34)
Christian Aid advocate for access to contraception in developing countries to improve maternal health, demonstrating how
Love one
another. As I have loved you” (John 13:34)
