RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

SCRIPTURES

Euthenasia
1 Corinthians 15:26 - The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
● death is an enemy
Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you
life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may
live
● When given the choice between life and death, God told Israel to “choose life”

Deuteronomy 22:8 - When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that
you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.
● God wants us to value the gift of life.

Birth Control & Abortion

Genesis 4:1 - The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to
Cain, saying, “I have produced a male child with the help of the LORD.”

Psalms 139:13-16 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s
womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I
know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the
days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

1 Samuels 1:6-8 - Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in
order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the
Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. Her husband Elkanah would say to
her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I
mean more to you than ten sons?”

Luke 1:7 - But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were
both very old.

Luke 1:24-25 - After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in
seclusion. “The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and
taken away my disgrace among the people.”

Abortion & Euthenasia

Exodus 20:13 - You shall not murder.
● In the eyes of the Church abortion is classed as murder and goes against the
commandment, thou shalt not kill (Exodus 20:13). God condemns both taking the life of
another and taking one’s own life.