‘Life’ According to the Bible, and the Scientific Evidence. Featured In Introduction In an earlier article1 I focused on the original diet of the finished creation, and a search of the biblical record was made with this question in mind. Did God leave His creation in a state where a scarcity of resources, natural selection, or eating of meat existed? The Scriptures suggest that there was sufficient food for all the birds, animals, and man.
The Bible expressly states that God commanded the birds, animals, and man to eat only from the plant kingdom. Thus, the statements of Scripture are perfectly clear. The biblical text tells us the status of the finished creation. Some would argue to the contrary that when any creature in the garden ate a plant it would have caused the death of that plant. “However the absence of death would pose just as much a problem for three 24-hour days as it would for three billion years. It appears that a contradiction exists between what many believe, and what the Scriptures actually teach. Soul or consciousness. Murder. Murder n. the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way) and with no legal excuse or authority.
In those clear circumstances, this is first degree murder. By statute, many states consider a killing in which there is torture, movement of the person before the killing (kidnapping) or the death of a police officer or prison guard, or it was as an incident to another crime (as during a hold-up or rape), to be first degree murder, with or without premeditation and with malice presumed.
Second degree murder is such a killing without premeditation, as in the heat of passion or in a sudden quarrel or fight. Malice in second degree murder may be implied from a death due to the reckless lack of concern for the life of others (such as firing a gun into a crowd or bashing someone with any deadly weapon). Humanae Vitae - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Paul VI on the regulation of birth, 25 July 1968. New Questions 3. This new state of things gives rise to new questions. Granted the conditions of life today and taking into account the relevance of married love to the harmony and mutual fidelity of husband and wife, would it not be right to review the moral norms in force till now, especially when it is felt that these can be observed only with the gravest difficulty, sometimes only by heroic effort? Moreover, if one were to apply here the so called principle of totality, could it not be accepted that the intention to have a less prolific but more rationally planned family might transform an action which renders natural processes infertile into a licit and provident control of birth?
Could it not be admitted, in other words, that procreative finality applies to the totality of married life rather than to each single act? Interpreting the Moral Law 4. No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. 5. 6. Life and death in Eastern and Western spirituality | nirbhasa.net. Wed, 08/15/2007 - 21:08 — Nirbhasa Magee Every culture has its own version of what happens after death.
However, the first question a sceptic might ask is "how do you know there is something after death? " This is quite a hard question to answer, because there clearly can be no empirical proof. However, for thousands of years, people have dived deep within and embarked on the journey of self discovery, and realised that, indeed, there is something inside us that is eternal, that will persist long after the body drops off.
What exactly is that something? Of course, there is a huge difference between Eastern and Western spirituality on one issue: the issue of reincarnation. One's view of whether reincarnation exists naturally influences one's view of the purpose of life and death. Soul and the Person: Defining Life. On an issue as important as abortion, I want a definition of life that includes the wisdom and understanding of my Christian faith. So far, I have been disappointed. I doubt that I am the only one. Life is being defined biologically, in terms of beating hearts and pulsing brainwaves. Cows, too, exhibit these requisite energies, and in some sense bovine life is sacred, possessing that unfathomable plus that nudges protoplasm and electrical energy into life.
Someone will respond, "The issue is human life. If a steer defended himself -- and when you are arguing the value of your life, you must -- he might point out that we are kindred souls of the sixth day of creation; that, justly or not, his kind were drawn into "the fall of man" (Jer. 12:4); that we share a common fate (Eccles. 3:9); and that his family, quite appropriately, will be drawn into the coming salvation (Isa. 11:6-7). Then is the soul a "special blessing"? A Relational Embodiment Then what happened?
Promise Denied.