Personal And Family Issues (1 Markers And Knowledge)

Question 1

What is fornication

Answer 1

Sex outside Marriage

according to Christians, this is sinful

Question 2

What does ‘chaste’ mean? Who does the church expect to remain this way?

Answer 2

To refrain from sex

The unmarried

Question 3

What is a homosexual relationship? What is the Christian attitude to this?

Answer 3

A sexual relationship between members of the same sex

Forbidden in most Christian sects

Question 4

What is a heterosexual relationship?

Answer 4

A sexual relationship between members of the opposite sex

Question 5

What is a sexual relationship

Answer 5

A relationship where two people consent to have sex on a regular basis

Question 6

What are the 4 aspects of a catholic marriage?

Answer 6

• permanent
• exclusive
• life giving
• sacrement

Question 7

What are the 5 aspects of a legal marriage?

Answer 7

• union of two partners - homosexual or heterosexual
• can divorce
• no obligation to have children
• no god
• divorcees may remarry

Question 8

Give biblical references against homosexuality (5)

Answer 8

• Genesis 2:18 - helper fit for him
• Genesis 19 - worse sin than rape
• Genesis - one man one woman
• St Paul - moral evil
• natural moral law - when no children are born from sex, its wrong

Question 9

What is the Catholic church’s teaching on homosexuality? (5)

Answer 9

• intrinsically disordered
• cannot be approved
• called to chastity
• treat with respect, compassion and sensitivity
• Pope Francis ,”I am no one to judge.”

Question 10

What is the anglican church’s teaching on homosexuality? (2)

Answer 10

• incompatible with scripture
• many parishes opposed to practise

Question 11

What is the Presbyterian church’s teaching on homosexuality? (2)

Answer 11

• family dynamic, breakdown or culture leads to homosexuality
• comes from confusion

Question 12

What did Jesus say about divorce? (2)

Answer 12

• Bad, shouldn’t happen
• however, Matthew 5:31-32 - appears to say ok in the case of adultery

Question 13

Catholic organisations preparing couples for marriage

Answer 13

• Accord
• relate

Question 14

State the main marriage vows (4)

Answer 14

• for better for worse
• for richer for poorer
• sickness and health
• death do us part

Question 15

What is a Nuclear family? (3)

Answer 15

• most common
• husband and wife with children in the same house
• sometimes parents or close relatives live nearby

Question 16

What is a cohabiting family?

Answer 16

Couple and children live together without getting married

Question 17

What is a same-sex couple family? (2)

Answer 17

• gay couple who might be married or have a civil partnership or be cohabiting
• children could be biologically related or adopted or from a surrogate

Question 18

What is an extended family? (2)

Answer 18

• parents and children with relatives like grandparents in the same house
• 1.2% of all in Uk in 2016

Question 19

What is a lone parent family? (2)

Answer 19

• 1 parent and children
• possibly due to a decision not to marry or cohabit, separation, divorce or bereavement

Question 20

What is a blended family? (3)

Answer 20

• parent marries or cohabits with new partner
• can come after separation, divorce or death of a partner
• families merged: step-brothers, half-brothers etc.

Question 21

Give 3 Bible passages about family life?

Answer 21

• exodus - ‘honour your father and mother’
• psalms - ‘fruit of the womb a reward’
• proverbs - ‘he who spares the rod hates his son’
• proverbs - ‘do not withhold discipline from a child’
• proverbs - ‘do not despise your mother in old age’

Etc.

Question 22

What circumstance is the only one allowed for people to remarry in Catholicism?

Answer 22

When someone’s husband or wife dies

Question 23

What do Christians believe the purposes of sexual relationships are? (2)

Answer 23

• unitive (two partners together)
• procreative (bearing children)

Question 24

What is celibacy?

Answer 24

When someone abstains from marriage and sexual relations

Question 25

Give 3 biblical references on divorce

Answer 25

• Malachi 2:16 - “I hate divorce” (God says)
• Matthew - “Let man not be separate”
• Matthew - “other than her unfaithfulness” (Jesus appears to allow it)