Theme B- RS quotes (religion + life) ⚰️🪐

Question 1

Give a Christian quote for the creation of the world

Answer 1

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’

Question 2

Give a religious teaching that supports why Christians and Buddhist value the world.

Hint: work and take care, arising

Answer 2

Christian: ‘work and take care of it’

Buddhist: concept of dependent arising- we are all interconnected, therefore we depend on a healthy planet to survive.

Question 3

Give a Buddhist teaching about the creation of the world

Answer 3

The parable of the man hit by a poisoned arrow- it is more important that the man receives treatment, then finding where the arrow came from.

-Likewise, Buddhists believe it is more important to find a way out of suffering, than to try and find the creation of the world/origin of the world.

Question 4

Give a Christian quote about dominion

Hint: Genesis 1:28

Answer 4

‘Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky [and over every living creature that moves on the ground’] Genesis 1:28

Question 5

Give a Buddhist quote that opposes the abuse of the environment

Answer 5

‘To extend that kind of attitude to the natural environment’ (Tenzin Gyatso- the Dalai Llama)

Question 6

Give a Christian quote about pollution

Answer 6

• ‘The Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it’ Psalm 24:1

Question 7

Give a Christian quote opposing the use and abuse of animals

Hint: Genesis 1:29

Hint #2: seed bearing plant

Hint

Answer 7

‘I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it’ ‘They will be yours for food’.

Question 8

Give a Buddhist quote that opposes the use and abuse of animals

Hint: The Dhammapada, verse 129

Answer 8

‘One should not kill or cause to kill’- The Buddha in the Dhammapada, verse 129

Question 9

Give a Christian and Buddhist teaching about the origins of human life

Answer 9

… ‘in the image of God’- Fundamentalist Christians believe that God created all life, with humans last

• The Buddha said anything can ‘come into existence when the necessary conditions are there’- quote for supporting evolution

Question 10

Give a Christian quote and Buddhist quote that opposes abortion

Hint: The Buddha, Jeremiah 1:28

Hint #2: link to conception

Answer 10

Christian: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you’

Buddhist: The Buddha said ‘a new being consciousness comes into being at conception’

Question 11

Give a Christian quote that supports euthanasia and a Buddhist quote that opposes euthanasia

Hint: merciful, dalai llama

Answer 11

• Christian: ‘blessed are the merciful’- (to show compassion to those in need’
• Buddhist: The Dalai Llama said that euthanasia ‘should be avoided’ except in exceptional circumstances

Question 12

Give a Christian and Buddhist quote about death and the afterlife.

Hint: Matthew 25:31-46

Hint #2: parable, darts of existence

Answer 12

Christian: parable of the sheeps and goats- ‘they [goats] will go to eternal punishment’ but ‘the righteous [sheep] to eternal life’- Matthew 25:31-46

Buddhist: ‘he has cut off the darts of existence’- The Buddha in the Dhammapada, verse 351.

Question 13

Give another Christian quote about the origins of human life.

Hint: Genesis 2:7

Answer 13

‘and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being’- Genesis 2:7

Question 14

Give a quote that supports why Liberal Christians might argue that God created the Big Bang.

Hint: Genesis 1:3-25

Answer 14

‘Let there be light’- Genesis 1:3-25

Question 15

What is Genesis 3:23?

Hint: banished

Answer 15

‘The Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden

Question 16

What is a Christian quote about dominion that opposes the abuse of God’s creation.

Hint: humanity’s dominion cannot be understood as a licence to…

Answer 16

‘humanity’s dominion cannot be understood as a licence to abuse, spoil, squander or destroy what God has made…’- Christian declaration of nature, Assi 1996

Question 17

What is does Dhammapada 49 teach, about looking after the environment?

Hint: without injuring it’s colour or fragrance.

Answer 17

• ‘As a bee gathers honey from the flower without injuring its colour or fragrance’
• since a bee doesn’t cause harm to the environment, so humans shouldn’t harm the environment when they use it.

Question 18

What is Dhammapada 60?

Hint: sublime truth.

Answer 18

‘long is worldly existence to fools who do not know the sublime truth’.

Question 19

What is Ephesians 2:6-8?

Hint: ___ __ __ grace by ___ you have been saved.

Answer 19

‘For it is grace by God you have been saved’.