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Life Issues: "all human beings are created with a fundamental dignity…

- - - - 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).
        
        "Contemptuous anger is subject to God's judgement" (McQuilkin & Copan 352).
- - - - Some argue that women have the "right to choose". "As some portray it, the unborn child is something of an unforeseen 'invasion' into the woman's womb" (McQuilkin & Copan 369). It is sickening. "Death comes to the unborn simply because they are in an inconvenience, and the widespread practice of abortion is a clear sign that we live in a 'culture of death'" (McQuilkin & Copan 373).
- - - - "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).
- - - - "In the Old Testament war was not only sanctioned or permitted in cases of self-defense (e.g., Ex 17; Num 21), but was actually commanded by God" (McQuilkin & Copan 413).
        
        "Even when we are called on to lay down our life for others, some might be called to accept martyrdom for Christ's sake, and others to die valiantly defending the life of another. In any event, Jesus' example cannot be a rationale for nonresistance under all circumstances" (McQuilkin & Copan 417).