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Thematic Studies Glossary Flashcards

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Abortion

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Deliberate expulsion of foetus from womb with the intention to destroy it

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Afterlife

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Beliefs about what happens after we die to our self/soul

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Animal Rights

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The idea that animals should have rights because of respect for life

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Awe

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An overwhelming feeling often of reverence with a link to God

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Big Bang Theory

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The scientific view of beginning of the universe

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Charles Darwin

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The man who put forward the theory of evolution in the 19th Century

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Conception

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When the sperm fertilises the female egg, so allowing pregnancy

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Conservation

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To repair and protect animals and areas of natural beauty

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Creation

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The idea that God created the world/universe from nothing

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Dominion

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Idea that humans have the right to control all of creation

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Environment

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The world around us

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Euthanasia

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Mercy killing; ending life for someone who is terminally ill, or has degenerative disease
Can be voluntary or involuntary

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Evolution

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Change in inherited traits in a species

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Fossil Fuels

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The Earth’s natural resources - coal, oil and gas

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Hospice

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A place that cares for the dying usually from an incurable disease

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Hypothesis

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A proposed explanation of something

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Natural Resources

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The resources the earth provides without the aid of mankind

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Natural selection

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One of the basic mechanisms of evolution

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Pesticide

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Chemicals used to kill pests especially on crops

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Pro-choice

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Pressure groups which campaign for the right of a woman to decide on abortion

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Pro-life

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Pressure groups which campaign against abortion/euthanasia

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Quality of Life

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How good/comfortable life is

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Right to Die

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The beliefs that a human being should be able to control their own death

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Sanctity of Life

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Life is special, as life is created by God

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Science

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Knowledge coming from observed regularity in nature and experimentation

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Stewardship

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Duty to look after the world, and life

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Sustainable Energy

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Resources that are renewable e.g. solar, wind and nuclear power

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Agnostic

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A person who believes there is not enough evidence to say whether a God exists or not

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Atheist

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A person who believes there is no God

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Teleological (Design) Argument

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The idea that the world is designed so God exists as the designer

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First Cause

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The idea that the world was a result of something causing it

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General Revelation

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Indirect revelation, for example, through seeing God through nature

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Humanism

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A belief system which does not include God, but sees as central the morally good behaviour of humans

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Illusion

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Something that is not real, but a trick of a mind

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Immanent

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That God is at work in the world, for example, performing miracles

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Impersonal

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That God is beyond human capacity to understand; distant in intellectual and emotional terms

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Miracles

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Good events which are considered impossible, so should not have been able to happen, and are inexplicable by science

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Omniscient

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All-knowing

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Omnipotent

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All-powerful

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Omnibenevolent

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All-loving

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Personal

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Relatable; humans can meet and connect with God

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Polytheist

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Person who believes in more than one God

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Reality

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What is real or actual

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Revelation

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God revealing Himself

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Science

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The collection of knowledge from observation and testing

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Special Revelation

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Direct revelation, for example, seeing God in a vision

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Theist

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A person who believes in a God

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Thomas Aquinas

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An Italian philosopher and Catholic priest in the 13th century, who wrote 5 arguments for the existence of God, including the Argument from Cause

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Transcendent

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That God is beyond space and time, controlled by neither

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Ultimate Reality

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The idea of One God which is absolute

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Vision

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An image seen in the wind or a dream, especially as part of a religious or supernatural experience

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William Paley

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An English clergyman who in the eighteenth century put forward the design argument for the beginning of the world

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Civil War

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Armed conflict between factions within the same country

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Conflict

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Disagreement which escalates

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Conscientious Objector

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A person who refuses to do something, here fight in a war, because of their conscience

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Conventional (warfare)

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War using conventional weapons - weapons acceptable under Geneva Conventions

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Forgiveness

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Willingness to not blame a person any more for wrongs they have done

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Holy War

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Rules around fighting a war acceptable to Islam

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Justice

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Making things fair again

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Just War

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Rules around fighting a war acceptable to Christianity and Sikhism

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Nuclear weapons/war

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A weapon/war of mass destruction

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Pacifism

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Belief that all violence is wrong

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Peace

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The opposite of war; harmony

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Protest

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Voicing disagreement with something

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Reconciliation

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Making up between two groups after disagreement

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Retaliation

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To pay back for harmful action

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Terrorism

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Use of violence and threats to intimidate, especially for political purposes to create a state of fear in a population

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Violence

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Causing harm to someone

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War

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Armed conflict between two or more sides

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Weapons of mass destruction

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Weapons which cause uncontrollable and untold damage, for example, nuclear weapons

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Capital Punishment

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Death penalty

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Community Service Order

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Punishment; criminal has to do a set number of hours’ work in the community as their punishment

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Conscience

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Sense of right and wrong; usually the guilty voice in our head

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Corporal Punishment

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Physically hurting the criminal as a punishment

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Crime

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Breaking the law; can be against a person (e.g. assault) against property (e.g. arson) or the state (e.g. terrorism)

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Deterrence

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Aim of punishment; where the punishment puts someone off committing the crime

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Duty

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Something we are bound to do

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Evil

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Something or someone considered morally wrong; wicked; often linked to the idea of malevolent force e.g. the devil

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Forgiveness

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Letting go of anger toward someone for a wrong they have done us

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Hate Crime

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A crime committed because of prejudice e.g. beating someone up because you think they are gay; in UK law, it can mean the doubling of a sentence if found guilty

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Imprisonment

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Locking someone up as a punishment

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Justice

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Making things fair again

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Law

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The rules which govern a country to keep us safe

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Order

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The enforcement of rules e.g. by a police force

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Parole

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Release of a criminal from prison, but continuing to monitor their behaviour

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Probation Order

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Punishment; monitoring of behaviour with the threat of greater punishment for offending again

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Protection

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Aim of punishment; to keep people safe

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Reformation

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Aim of punishment; helping the person see how and why they should behave better

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Reparation

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Aim of punishment; making up for, compensating

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Retribution

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Aim of punishment; getting back at the person for what they have done

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Victim

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The one against whom a crime is committed

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Vindication

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Aim of punishment; the punishment exists because the law does

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Young Offenders

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Persons under 18 who commit crime

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Bible Quote - Stewardship

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“Take care of it” (Genesis 2:15)

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Bible Quotes - Creation (light)

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“God made two great lights - the greater to govern the day” (Genesis 1:16)
“God said ‘let there be light’ and there was light” (Genesis 1:3)

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Bible Quotes - Creation

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“God blessed them” (Genesis 1:28)
“God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:18)
“Streams came up from the Earth and watered the whole surface of the ground” (Genesis 2:6)

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Bible Quotes - Creation of Human Life

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“Then the lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7)

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Qur’an Quotes - Origin of Human Life

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“You (humans) were lifeless, and He gave you life” (Qur’an 2:28)
“O Mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from these two has spread abroad a multitude of men and women” (Surah 4:1)

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Qur’an Quote - Value of the World / Stewardship

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“It is He who made you successors on the Earth” (Qur’an 6:165)
“It is to God that everything in the heavens and Earth belongs: God is fully aware of all things” (Qur’an 4:126)

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Bible Quote - Dominion / Animals

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“Everything that lives and moves about you will be food for you” (Genesis 9:3)
“The righteous care for the needs of their animals” (Proverbs 12:10)
“God blessed them and God said to them ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the Earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the Earth” (Genesis 1:28)

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Qur’an Quotes - Animals

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“All creatures that crawl on the Earth and those that fly with their wings are communities like yourselves” (Qur’an 6:38)
“It is God who provides livestock for you, some for riding and some for your food; you have other benefits in them too” (Qur’an 40:79)

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Bible Quotes - Value of the World / Stewardship

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“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Genesis 1:31)
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15)

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Qur’an Quote - Sanctity of Life

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“… do not take life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus do as He command you, that you may learn wisdom” (Qur’an 6:151)

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Bible Quote - Sanctity of Life

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“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple” (1 Corinthians 3:16)

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Bible Quotes - Abortion

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“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart” (Jeremiah 1:5)
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13-14)

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Qur’an Quote - Abortion

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“Do not kill your children for fear of poverty - we shall provide for them and for you - killing them is a great sin” (Qur’an 17:31)

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Bible Quote - Euthanasia

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“… all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16)

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Qur’an Quote - Euthanasia

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“No soul may die except with God’s permission at a predestined time” (Qur’an 3:145)

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Bible Quotes - Afterlife

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“Wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death and mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4)
“The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever. There will be no rest day or night” (Revelation 14:11)
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Mark 8:36)

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Qur’an Quotes - Afterlife

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“Gardens of pleasure” (Qur’an 31:8)
“For one whose scales are heavy with good deeds, he will be in a pleasant life… for one whose scales are light, his refuge will be abyss” (Qur’an 101:6-9)

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Bible Quotes - Nature of God

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“But will God indeed dwell on the Earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!” (1 Kings 8:27)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people” (John 1:1-4)

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Qur’an Quotes - Nature of God

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“Your God is but one God. There is no god other than Him, Compassionate and Merciful” (Surah 2:163)
“O Messenger, say: ‘He is God, the One, the God Who is free of need for all things and of Whom all beings stand in need. No one is His offspring, and He is not the offspring of anyone, and He has no like or parallel” (Surah 112:1-4)
“Pure and exalted is thy Lord, God the Powerful and Unique, Who is pure of what men in their ignorance ascribe to Him” (Surah 37:180)

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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram (Bible Quote)

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Genesis 15:1-6
1 After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:

“Do not be afraid, Abram.
I am your shield,
your very great reward.”

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Peter’s Vision (Bible Quote)

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Acts 10:9-16
13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”

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Saul’s Conversion (Bible Quote)

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Acts 9:1-19
5 “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.

“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

7 The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone

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