only God has the prerogative to give and take life?

Question

then what conclusions can we make concerning the following issues?
1. abortion
2. infanticide
3. euthanasia
4. cloning
5. capitol punishment

any verses to support and defend your conclusions???

Answer 1

God doesn't exist so..

1. Personal choice
2. Infanticide? Killing babies? Well, that would be wrong.
3. Euthanasia should be legal as there are people out there living lives in suffering that would be better off dead.
4. Cloning, at this moment, doesn't work so more research is needed.
5. Capitol punishment is good. Eye for an eye.. remember?? But, I'm still on the fence with this.

Answer 2

But..... God has given us his teachings on capitol punishment. He has told us that the punishment should fit the crime. If a man kills/murders another, the murderer is to forfeit his life at the hands of the governing body. See the books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus. These are God's words/rules. Are they any less valid today than they were in those days?

Still ..... it would be great to find a better way to hand down justice.

Kev

Answer 3

It is not accurate what you say. Since god has given man and beast the free will, he has given man the prerogative to take life. God is the only one who may judge if the killing was sin or was not and so the issues you discuss can not be answered absent of details. Since god works in others is it not god himself who takes lives through others? And so If I am a vehicle of god have I truly taken a life. (in the instance of defense of self or others?) You cannot separate god and man the same way you cannot separate god from the trees and all of the life of the earth. If something is good because it is created by god and it is only gods prerogative to end it then why would he give man diminion over these things. Would we then be commiting sin for consuming for food or cutting a tree for shelter. We are only then practicing our dominion and the prerogative given us from god. It is not the act that is sin but the motive. If we are consuming beast for nourishment it is good, or if only out of enjoyment for killing beast this is evil. If we are consuming human for preservation it is not sin, but if we are consuming for pleasure then it is sin.
There are simple rules of wrong and right in the world. Those of us who are good know the difference and endeavor to excercize our prerogative for good. Those of us who are evil (or who falter) excercize our prerogative for bad.

The end.

Answer 4

Just what do you mean by the word prerogative?

I will say that number 5 is necessary.

Answer 5

Excellent - that makes God responsible for all wars, murders, disease, famine, medical errors etc etc. Man has no responsiblity for any of it. So giving to third world charities, campaigning for peace, searching for, arresting and convicting killers and training doctors and nurses is all a waste of time.

Answer 6

"Only God has the prerogative to give and take life?"

Then is procreation taking the upper hand and forcing 'god' to?

Answer 7

That just means that God is the one who decides who lives and who dies and that God is the cause of the above issues.

Answer 8

The only answer to this question is that god does not exist.

Answer 9

God gives us the spiritual life
Spiritual.
Not material.

Answer 10

Thou shalt not kill........so, that covers all but the cloning.....cloning is not killing, it is creating..if we ever cloned a human, that human would possess a soul just like anybody else and would deserve the love we all strive for.