Environmental & Medical Ethics Flashcards
2 quotes supporting Christian stewardship
Proverbs 13:22 “a good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children”
Genesis 2:15 “The Lord god took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and take care of it”
Quote supporting environment being a gift from god
Psalm 24:1 “the earth is The Lord’s, and everything in it, and all who live in it”
What did dr rowan Williams say about the environment while Archbishop of Canterbury?
“For the church of the 21st century, good ecology is not an optional extra but a matter of justice. It is therefore central to what it means to be a Christian.”
Dominion genesis 1:26
Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground
Muhammad quote khalifah
The world is green and beautiful and Allah has appointed you his steward over it. The whole earth has been created as a place of worship pure and clean.
Qu’ran 2:30 khalifah quote
And when your lord said to the angels, I am going to place in the earth a khalifah
AMEN quote
Our role is to protect & to use gods creation thoughtfully and carefully so that on the day of judgement we can report back to god that we have been true and faithful khalifahs
Muslim declaration on nature
We are gods stewards and agents on earth. We are not masters of this earth: it does not belong to us to do what we wish. It belongs to god and he has entrusted us with it’s safekeeping
Genesis 1:28
Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
Wanking is bad quote
Genesis 38 “…he spilled his seamen on the ground… What he did was wicked in The Lord’s sight”
Roman Catholic Church adultery catechism
Dignitas personae “the origin of human life has it’s authentic context in marriage and in the family, where it is generated through an act which expresses the reciprocal love between a man and a woman
Hadith (book of medicine) quote about curing disease
“There is no disease that Allah has sent down except that he has also sent down its treatment”
Why does shariah law allow the extra embryos from IVF to be destroyed
Embryos that are destroyed during IVF are 14 days old so they are not classed as ‘humans’ because Islam teaches that the soul does not enter the foetus until 120 days.
Quote why Allah decides if a couple has a child or not
Surrah 42:49-50 “He gives to whom he wills female [children] and he gives to whom he wills males”
Quote why Allah decides if a couple has a child or not
Short
“… He renders whom he wills barren”
How many people on the transplant waiting lists in the uk
9,000
How many people on the waiting list die every year
1,000
How many organ transplants are carried out each year
3,000
How many black market operations involving purchased human organs take place annually
Approx 10,000
Prisoners account for approx how much of China’s transplant organs?
2/3
St. Paul principle of organ donation guidance
Galatians 4:15 “I myself can say that you would have taken out your own eyes, if you could, and given them to me”
John the Baptist sharing is caring
The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same
Christianity no bodily resurrection
Genesis 3:19 “.. You will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return”
Catechism on transplant surgery
Evangelium vitae “a particularly praiseworthy example of such gestures is the donation of organs in a morally acceptable manner”
