Faith Integration With Research
In Christianity, Bible is the key fundamental book and its teaching provides the principles and blueprint beliefs of ways to live as a Christian. The Ten Commandments on the Old Testament given to the Israelites to keep, gave them the pathway on how to live moral upright with God and fellow man. In the New Testament, Jesus summarized the commandments in two in Matthew 22:37-38, where he commanded us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind; as well as love our neighbor as we love ourselves. As Christians, love, honesty and integrity forms an integral part of our daily interaction with others, both in our work and living places. This is where our Christianity becomes questionable, if one lacks to practice these virtues with the others.
Carrying each other's burden as indicated in (Galatians 6:2) everyone faces some distresses and discomforts in their daily lives, as Christians we should be able to use our gifts, talents and abilities to encourage them. James 2:8 tells us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves and these will hinder us from being insensitive, crude and exploitative when dealing with others. This should be one of the guiding principles in the daily life, including the scientific researches. The other guiding principle is...
Mark, 1971 described honesty as people who love the truth and justice; they do not lie-intentionally deceive others (Exodus 20:16), cheat- giving less ones owe or receiving something one do not deserve (Leviticus 19:35) or steal-taking something that do not belong to us (Matthew 19:18). James and Peter (1991) described integrity as wholeness of a person, ones undividedness or having moral purity (Matthew 5:8,1Kings 9:4).
Often in the scientific research field, some the researchers fail to give the subjects the respect and dignity they deserve. They treat these people like objects, manipulate and exploit them in their quest of finding solutions to various health problems. Many of the persons used as research subjects, are often economically or educationally disadvantaged and even cognitively impaired. Money, other material compensation, such as a coupon or gift certificate, or other non-monetary rewards is given to them in exchange of their service. This is research misconduct and it is very unworthy and unchristian of them.
One such instance the disregarded the tenets of good neighborliness and Biblical morals as well as social well being of human is the Tuskegee Syphilis study that was conducted between 1932 to 1972. It was so inhumane in that it subjected members…
