Section 4 Flashcards
1
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Human rights
A
- “You my brothers, were called to be free”
- Freedom of religion contradicts “you shall not have other gods before me”
- Limitations on human rights
- Protestant christians heavily influenced the declaration of human rights
- Universal declaration of human rights - 1948
2
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Equal rights and equal opportunities
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- “Male or female, we are all equal in christ”
- “There is neither jew nor greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
- “Do unto others what you would have them done to you” -> treatment against the disabled
- Prayer camps - widely condemned (Evangelical?)
- “I do not permit a woman to have authority over a man…she must be silent”
- “I will make a helper suitable for him”
- Jesus had women priests + followers
3
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Multi ethnic society
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- Embraces other culture
- Causes unwanted conflict
- Xenophobia with COVID
- Lack of understanding
- Islamic countries up to 4 wives, polygamy in Russia + illegal - different laws
- Imago dei
- “You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born”
4
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Interfaith relationship
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- “Jesus is the only path” / “I am the way and the light, no one comes to the father except through me”
- “Church still has a sacred right and duty to evangelise people”
- The great commission: “Go and make disciples of all nations”
- All religions are different paths up the same mountain” - Guru Nanak
5
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Rich and poor
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- “No one can serve two masters.”
- “You cannot serve both god and money”
- “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil”
- “It is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven”
- Joseph of Arithmea, Tax collector but used his money for Jesus’ burial
- Rich man and lazarus pit
- “Now he is comforted here and you are in agony”
