The Christian Worldview: The Ethical Dilemma Of Euthanasia

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Joni was swimming with her friends and drove into the water where she hit the bottom and fractured her vertebrae at the age of 17, becoming a quadriplegic and having to rely on help from her parents for the rest of her life. Joni was lost in her thoughts, which turned into depression with the idea of euthanasia, not wanting to be a burden to her family any more. Joni was focused on what she didn’t have anymore and could not see the blessing of what she still had. When life changes for the good people never question why, then when life changes for the bad they always question why. People ask; why God would allow people to suffer, or what good has ever come out of someone, living like this, in the end can people over come all obstacles.
Ethical Dilemma Euthanasia is a difficult ideal to understand, to lack the ability to place a value on someone’s life and to understand someone’s suffering at the sometime. Being pulled by both your heart and your soul at the same time.
To resolve this dilemma Joni could do one of the following: …show more content…

In the case of Joseph where his brother sold him into slavery, what was meant to be evil, God planned everything out to bless Joseph and his family in the long term (Genesis 37-47 Holman Christian Study Bible). We as Christian need to lean on Gods understands and not our own, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). Joni could live out her faith by trusting in God and by not jumping to thoughts that she is useless. She could bring the living word to people around her. As a voice calling out of the wilderness like John the Baptist, Joni’s wilderness would be her situation. Christians all around this world are using the pain they have known to spread the message of God. It is her story now that only she can share and show how God have not forsaken her, but has delivered from the rock bottom and now has renewed her

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