Rights And Responsibilities

Question 0

What is Church?

Answer 0

The community of Christians (with a small c it means a Christian place of worship)

Question 1

What is the bible?

Answer 1

The holy book of Christians

Question 2

What is conscience?

Answer 2

An inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action

Question 3

What is the Decalogue?

Answer 3

The Ten Commandments

Question 4

What are democratic processes?

Answer 4

The ways in which all citizens can take part in government (usually through elections)

Question 5

what are electoral processes?

Answer 5

The ways in which voting is organised?

Question 6

What is the Golden Rule?

Answer 6

The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you

Question 7

What are human rights?

Answer 7

Te rights to freedom to which everyone is entitled

Question 8

What is a political party?

Answer 8

A group which tries to be elected into power on the basis of it’s policies (eg Labour, Conservatives)

Question 9

What is a pressure group?

Answer 9

A group formed to influence government policy on a particular issue

Question 10

What are situation ethics?

Answer 10

The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do

Question 11

What is social change?

Answer 11

The way in which society has changed and is changing (also the possibilities for future change)

Question 12

Why do many Christians use only the bible making moral decisions?

Answer 12

• it is the word of God and so is Gods guidance on how to make decisions
• it contains Gods laws in how people should behave, eg. The Decalogue
• it contains letters from Jesus’ disciples

Question 13

Why do some Christians think the Bible is NOT the most important guide for making moral decisions?

Answer 13

• it was written by humans inspired by God many years ago, so some of the attitudes need changing
• they need church to tell them what the Bible means for today
• they use their conscience or reason to decide whether to follow the Bible today

Question 14

Some Christians believe they should follow their conscience because?

Answer 14

• the voice of conscience seems to be the same as the voice of God
• the Church says that Christians should follow their conscience as if it were the voice of God
• Paul and Thomas Aquinas taught that Christians should use their conscience as the final part of moral decision-making

Question 15

Some Christians think they should NOT always follow their conscience because?

Answer 15

• if Christians follow the teachings of the Church, they are doing what other Christians think is right
• ## if everyone followed their conscience rather than laws, there would be caos

Question 16

Some Christians use Situation Ethics as a guide for making moral decisions because

Answer 16

• Christians should only do what will produce good results - base decision on love not law
• Jesus seemed to follow Situation Ethics
• the golden rule

Question 17

Human rights are important to Christians because

Answer 17

• The teachings of the Bible are in line with most human right laws
• god loves everyone equally so they should be treated equally

Question 18

Bible passages that support human rights:

Answer 18

• Jesus’ Sermon on the mount
• the parable of the sheep and the Goats
• golden rule

Question 19

Some humans do not approve of all human rights because:

Answer 19

• many Christians against the right to form a civil partnership
• some against the right to marry someone of a different faith
• some against right for homosexuals to raise a family

Question 20

Liberal Protestants support genetic engineering because:

Answer 20

• Jesus showed that Christians should do all they can to cure disease
• embryos are not goat uses until they are 14 days old

Question 21

Roman Catholics agree with genetic research as long as it does not involve the use of embryos because:

Answer 21

• killing an embryo is killing human life

- embryos have been produced by in- Christian means

Question 22

Some Christians are against all genetic research because:

Answer 22

• it is trying to play God which is a great sin

- it is wrong to try to make Earth perfect; only Heaven is perfect