Social Issues Flashcards
(3 cards)
ABORTION
Ex. 21:22-25 And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage(Yatsa ), yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined…. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty, life for life.
Yatsa Usually refers in the OT to a live birth.
* Gen. 25:26 (Jacob) …came forth with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel…
Shakol The usual word for miscarriage
* Hos. 9:14 “a miscarrying womb”
Ex. 20:13 You shall not murder.
Ps. 139:13-16 For thou didst form my inward parts; thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb,… My frame was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in the book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.
Jer. 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Ps.127:3 Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.
HOMOSEXUALITY
God’s Design
* Gen. 1:27 Male and female He created them.
* Gen. 2:24 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife…
God’s Condemnation
* Lev. 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
* Rom. 1:26-27 God gave them over to degrading passions; for their womoen exchanged the natural function for that which is innatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
God’s Cure
* I Cor. 5:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God: Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,…nor homosexuals… shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of God.
* I Cor.10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it.
GOVERNMENT
Source of Government
* Rom. 13:1 For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
Responsibilities of Government
Punish Evil
* Rom. 13:4 It is a minister of God, and avenger who brings wraty upon the one who practices evil.
Reward Good
* Rom. 13:3 Do what is good and you will have praise for the same.
Responsibilities of Believers
Submit
* I Peter 2:13-17 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution… honor the King.
Pray
* I Tim. 2:1-2 I urge that entreaties and prayers… for kings and all who are in authority…
Pay
* Rom. 13:6-7 For because of this you also pay taxes.
