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Showing posts with label 1 - rights and responsibilities (RS-religion and society). Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1 - rights and responsibilities (RS-religion and society). Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

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 
Why many Christians use only the Bible -
  • 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 
Why some Christians do not think the Bible is the most important guide for making moral decisions -
  •  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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RELIGION AND SOCIETY

1 - Rights and responsibilities

Key words -
Bible - the holy book for Christians
Church - the community of Christians (non-capital C means a Christian place of worship)
Conscience - an inner feeling of the rightness or wrongness of an action
The Decalogue - the Ten Commandments
Democratic Processes - the ways in which all citizens can take part6 in government (usually through elections)
Electoral processes - the ways in which voting is organised
The Golden Rule - the teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them t treat you
Human rights - the rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled
Political party - a group which tries to be elected into power on the basis of its policies
Pressure group - a group formed to influence government police on a particular issue
Situation ethics - the idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do
Social change - the way in which society has changed and is changing (also possibilities for future change)


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