Exploring Christians' Beliefs About Their Responsibility for Other People

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Exploring Christians' Beliefs About Their Responsibility for Other People

On the subject of prejudice and discrimination, Christians believe in

acceptance, tolerance and understanding. In their beliefs, they refer

to Jesus' story of The Good Samaritan, Luke 10: 25-37. In this story,

Jesus describes who our neighbour is. It tells us about how a man was

left half-dead by robbers, and not helped by people of his own race,

yet he was helped by a member of a different religion. The crowd

listening to Jesus expected the Samaritan to kill the Jew, who was

left for dead, but instead was bandaged and taken care of by him. Even

though the Samaritan was against the Jews, he had mercy on the injured

man, regardless of what religion he was. This tells Christians to have

mercy on everyone, even those of a different religion, and to look

after and care for all.

Another example of what Christians believe is the story of the

Centurion's Servant. The centurion, who was a different race from

Jesus, realised that Jesus would be unclean if he entered a non-Jewish

house, according to Jewish law. The centurion believed that Jesus

would be able to heal his servant from where he was. Jesus did so,

saying "I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Jesus

admired the simple faith of the gentile. Christians believe from this

story that they should respect other religions and appreciate customs

of other religions.

To show how Christians should respect the way others do things is the

story of Peter and Cornelius, Acts 11: 1-18. In the story Peter dreamt

about the Kosher and non-Kosher food, mixed up together and now all

regarded as unclean, God said to Peter in his dream, "Do no call

anything impure that God has made clean," as god has made everyone and

everything clean, so Christians should not disrespect anyone, or any

religion, race or gender. Peter would not have entered a gentile house

unless God had come to him in his dream, showing that the gospel is

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