o CORPORAL + RETRIBUTION CHRISTIAN: "whoever sheds the blood of man...by man shall his
blood be shed", spare the rod loose the child’, ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth’
o CAPITAL CHRISTAIN: ‘life for life’, be subject to governing authorities, you shall not murder,
and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.'
o FORGIVENESS CHRISTIAN: ‘forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us’, “if your
enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.”, ‘forgive 77 times’
o REFORMATION CHRISTIAN: ‘repent therefore, and turn again so that your sins may be
blotted out’
o CORPORAL + RETRIBUTION ISLAM: ‘God commands justice’ , ‘cut off the hands of thieves’
o CAPITAL ISLAM: ‘take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law’
o FORGIVENESS ISLAM: ‘Allah loves those who turn unto Him in repentance’
HR+SJ: wealth, uses of wealth, women/gender, poverty, religious freedom, lgbt, discrimination
o i wealth: ‘who give wealth, in spite of love for it’ are ‘good and righteous’
o c wealth: ‘whatever you did for them you did for me’ , ‘for it is he who gives you the ability
to produce wealth’ 'for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil’
o c discrimination: ‘neither jew nor gentile, slave nor free, you are all one if christ jesus’
o i discrimination: ‘Allah loves those who act justly’
o i women + gender: ‘whether male or female, you are of one another’, teach that men go to
Friday jummah prayer women are exempt, For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ
is the head of the church
o c women + gender: roman catholic + orthodox only men can be religious authority,
protestants and anglicans have moved away from this, 12 disciples were men, ‘women
should remain silent in churches’,
o c uses of w: ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person
to enter the kingdom of god’, ‘don't exploit the poor because they are poor’
o c poverty: ‘the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat’
o i uses of wealth: wealth is given to us by God as a blessing, sunni give 2.5% at zakat, shia to
20% of excess in khums, giving to charity purifies wealth, interest is forbidden zakat al fitr is
end of year voluntary donation to recognise allah
o i religious free: ‘whoever wills, let him believe, and who ever wills, let him disbelieve’, some
places very against apostasy
o c religious free: ‘live at peace with everyone’, ‘watch ouyt for those who cause divisions and
put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned’, ‘make
disciples of all nations’, encouraged to spread christianity but not forced
o i homo: ‘how can you practice this outrage’, condemned
o c homo: ‘be fruitful and multiply’ , ‘be subject to governing authorities’
o ‘Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good’
o ‘Be subject to governing authorities’
o ‘Cannot serve 2 masters’
, Religion + life: creation, abortion, euthanasia, stewardship + dominion, death/afterlife
o c abortion: before i formed you in the womb, i knew you, double effect theory
o i abortion: ensoulment at 6 weeks, ‘lesser of 2 evils’, ‘do not kill your children from fear of
want’, ‘anyone who aborts after ensoulment will be punished in hell’
o i euthanasia: ‘life should be seen as a test’, ‘no one can die except by Allah's leave’, ‘destroy
not yourselves’, sanctity of life argument, predestination (al-quadar"
o c euthanasia: you shall not murder, ‘imago Dei’
o i d+a: ‘will be rewarded for what they used to do’, ‘god causes you to live, then do die, and
will assemble you for the day of resurrection’ ‘gardens of happiness’ ‘they will dwell amid
scorching wind and scalding water’
o c d+a: heaven + hell, judged by their life, ‘wipe every tear away’ , ‘the smoke of their torment
will rise forever’, roman Catholics state of purgatory where their soul is purified in cleansing
fire’
o c origins: genesis creation in 6 days, ‘in the beginning, god created the heavens and the
earth’, Adam from soil eve from rib
o I origins: same as Christian but represent 6 phases, very deliberate ‘creates what he Pleases'
o I environment: ‘the earth is green and beautiful, and Allah has appointed you his stewards
over it’, strive to protect it
o c environment: stewardship + dominion, ‘rule over every living creature’, genesis god gave
Adam and eve power to name and rule animals, ‘the earth is the lords, and everything in it’,
o C animals: ‘everything that lives and moves will be food for you’, ‘the one who does not eat
everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them’ ‘the righteous care
for the needs of their animals’
o Stewardship: God told Adam to work on the garden of Eden and keep it,
o Dominion: imago Dei – animals are not same value, ‘rule over the fish in the sea’
Relationship + family: homosexuality, Sex before marriage, divorce, marriage, gender, contraception,
family, remarriage
o Homosexuality: Leviticus says sexual acts between 2 men is forbidden, Catholics say its not
the homosexuality that is bad but to act on it is
o Sex before + outside of marriage: ‘every sexual act must be within the framework of
marriage’, ‘you shall not commit adultery’, ‘anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has
already committed adultery’
o Divorce + remarriage: ‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits
adultery against her’, Catholics think marriage is a permanent sacrament made before God so
can't really be broken, Methodists allow remarriage if take vows seriously as we should
forgive
o Family important: ‘husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church’
o Childrens rights ‘do not despise your mother when she is old’, ‘children are a heritage from
the lord’, ‘children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the lord’
o Gender discrimination: ‘women will be silent in the churches’, ‘your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you’, For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church
Nature of Families:
- Educate children– Baptise in name of F, S + HS
- Reproduce – be fruitful and multiply,