The Sanctity of Life

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The Sanctity of Life

Most people think life is valuable. Christians however feel that life

is sacred. Sacred means that they think it is a special, given and

holy thing. The reason they think that its sacred it because the Bible

says how all life is a gift form God. God created us all unique and he

decided everything that will happen to us, nothing was an accident,

therefore life must be looked after and used how god intended.

Life is a responsibility and we should treat any kind of it

respectfully otherwise we are destroying God’s creation and so we must

value life highly, and also live it accordingly to God’s will.

People need to live their life until they die of a natural cause to

find what god has planned for them.

Christians try to model themselves to be like Jesus, to care for

everyone and to try to be active in helping others improve their

quality of life.

Most Christians believe that god created human life and the rest of

the world.

Genesis 1:26-7 (creation)

Then god said, ‘let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let

them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air, over the

livestock, over all the earth and over all creatures that move along

the ground.’

‘So god created man in his own image, in the image of god he created

him; male and female he created them.’

I think that god meant that he wanted to create man in his image – to

help and care for each other. He wanted humans to rule over all other

life on the world e.g. animals.

Another passage is –

Psalm 139:13-16

‘For you (god) created my inmost being: you knit me together in my

mothers 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.

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