Ethics And Torture Christian View Essay

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Those with the Christian based ethics see torture as an immoral act but can be justified if it brought more good than bad. This group of Christians sees the terrorist in the light that they are their neighbor, and they are to treat them how they would want to be treated. I tend to disagree with their perspective on various grounds which are ethical and also founded on the Bible.

First, the civil governments are ordained by God and charged them with looking after the subjects in all fairness. Meaning no one citizen or group of citizens should be given the free hand to torture and harm other citizens according to Romans 13:1-5. These governments need to punish the people who torture others and protect the vulnerable in the society. Secondly, Jesus in various occasions healed those who were tormented physically by sicknesses and evil spirits. He set a good example of how a Christian needs to live a life free of any kind of torture, even in the case of blind person whom He said that neither the man nor his parents sinned, but it was so for the kingdom to be manifested, He still healed him and freed him of the torture and the kingdom of God was still manifested in the freedom of the man, not in his torture from blindness as seen in John 9:3(Bible Hub, 2018). The Ten Commandments also tell thou shall not kill, yet the torture is always towards killing the spirit and the body of the individual which contravenes the Bible. The Holy Bible also instructs us that do unto others what you would them do unto you, and also love your neighbor as you love yourself, this means anyone who tortures the other it is not for any good, it is a person who hates the other and wishes him death and hence there is no good that can come out of torture and there can never be any justification for torture from the Biblical ethics or social ethics.

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Bible Hub, (2018). John 9:3. NIV. http://biblehub.com/john/9-3.htm

 

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