Section 4

Question 1

Human rights

Answer 1

• “You my brothers, were called to be free”
• Freedom of religion contradicts “you shall not have other gods before me”
• Limitations on human rights
• Protestant christians heavily influenced the declaration of human rights
• Universal declaration of human rights - 1948

Question 2

Equal rights and equal opportunities

Answer 2

• “Male or female, we are all equal in christ”
• “There is neither jew nor greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
• “Do unto others what you would have them done to you” -> treatment against the disabled
• Prayer camps - widely condemned (Evangelical?)
• “I do not permit a woman to have authority over a man…she must be silent”
• “I will make a helper suitable for him”
• Jesus had women priests + followers

Question 3

Multi ethnic society

Answer 3

• Embraces other culture
• Causes unwanted conflict
• Xenophobia with COVID
• Lack of understanding
• Islamic countries up to 4 wives, polygamy in Russia + illegal - different laws
• Imago dei
• “You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born”

Question 4

Interfaith relationship

Answer 4

• “Jesus is the only path” / “I am the way and the light, no one comes to the father except through me”
• “Church still has a sacred right and duty to evangelise people”
• The great commission: “Go and make disciples of all nations”
• All religions are different paths up the same mountain” - Guru Nanak

Question 5

Rich and poor

Answer 5

• “No one can serve two masters.”
• “You cannot serve both god and money”
• “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil”
• “It is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven”
• Joseph of Arithmea, Tax collector but used his money for Jesus’ burial
• Rich man and lazarus pit
• “Now he is comforted here and you are in agony”