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Life Issues: "all human beings are created with a fundamental dignity…
Life Issues: "all human beings are created with a fundamental dignity that cannot be diminished or taken away based on the stage of one's life or one's love of function" (McQuilkin & Copan, 392)
Chapter 21: Murder, Killing and Racism
Murder is a sin.
Self defense - "If there seems to be no other option but to resist with physical force, the Christian should discern whether killing is the only alternative or whether lesser violence would adequately restrain evil" (McQuilkin & Copan 350).
Verbal abuse - "A direct attack on a person... can destroy something in that person... Any word that harms another is murder-in-spirit" (McQuilkin & Copan 351).
Neglect - "Failure to do good, when in one's power to do so, is sin" (McQuilkin & Copan 352).
"Racism technically refers to the idea that certain nonracial characteristics, especially cultural patterns, are the result of race" (355). "God did require segregation and discrimination among people, but always based on religious or moral distinction, never on race or class distinctions" (McQuilkin & Copan 357).
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Chapter 23: Suicide, Euthanasia and Other Medical Ethical Considerations
"Suicide is wrong because it violates the prohibition of intentionally taking innocent human live" (McQuilkin & Copan 385). We are not God, but it is not an unforgivable sin.
Euthanasia is also wrong. "In sacrificially caring for others, we celebrate a love for life - for theirs and ours - as well as the God who sovereignly gives life as well as calls us to be a caring community" (McQuilkin & Copan 388).
"a person has a right to refuse medical treatment, which should not be misunderstood as promoting the taking of innocent life" (McQuilkin & Copan 392).
Artificial Insemination - "If God is the one who opens the womb and shuts it, if children are his heritage, perhaps we should stand back and allow him to continue to play this role, trusting him to fulfill some higher purpose in withholding children" (McQuilkin & Copan 399).
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