The Precepts Flashcards
How do we work out our purpose?
With our God-given reason we can work out 5 key moral principles, which if we follow allow us to achieve our purpose.
What are the 5 primary precepts?
Reproduce Educate the young Live in a community Worship God Protect the innocent
What do the primary precepts help us to do?
Identify our God given purpose
Identify which acts are good
Are the primary precepts absolutist?
Yes
What are the secondary precepts?
Anything you do to achieve a primary precept
What do the secondary precepts help us to do?
Achieve the primary precepts which if we are able to complete them all you will be united with God in heaven
Are the secondary precepts absolutist?
No - they have to be interpreted in the context of the situation as there are many ways to complete the primary precepts.
What 2 examples of secondary precepts that enable reproduction? Include a biblical teaching
Procreation
Don’t use contraception
“Be fruitful and multiply” - Genesis 1:28
What 2 examples of secondary precepts enable worshipping God? Include a biblical teaching
Go to church
Pray
“Do not worship false idols” - 10 commandments
What 2 examples of secondary precepts enable living in a community ? Include a biblical teaching
Marriage
“ man will leave his father and be united with his wife”
Follow rules
10 commandments - Exodus 20
What 2 examples of secondary precepts enable protection of the innocent? Include a biblical teaching
No euthanasia
“why should you die before your time?” - Ecclesiastes 7:17
No abortion
“You shall not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb”
The Didache (early Christian doc)
What 2 examples of secondary precepts enable educating the young? Include a biblical teaching
Read scripture
Sunday school
“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it”
