RELIGION AND SOCIETY
1 - Rights and responsibilities
The Bible as a basis for making moral decisions -
- Moral decisions - where you have to decide what is the right or wrong thing to do
- The Bible is the word of God - God's guidance to humans
- Contains God's teachings on how Christians should behave (eg: The Decalogue - treatment of parents, stealing, murder, adultery etc.)
- Contains teachings of Jesus on how to live - Son of God
- Contains letters from the leading disciples of Jesus on how Christians should behave - guided by Holy Spirit
- Think Bible was written by humans inspired by God - many attitudes need to be changed for modern world (eg: St Paul's attitude to women and slaves)
- Need Church to tell them what the Bible means for today
- Would use own conscience or reason to decide whether to follow the Bible today
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