Question Answer | The Christian concept of the imago Dei

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1.What is the Christian concept of the imago Dei? How might it be important to health
care, and why is it relevant?
2. According to your worldview, what value does a human person have? How does your
position affect your stance on controversial bioethical issues, such as abortion, designer
babies, and stem cell research?
Ans 1. The Imago Dei is also called as the image of god is concept followed in across the world.
It is a theological doctrine in three different religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It
defines that human being are the image of god and every human being have god in them self. We
are different form animals because we have the consciousness and the ability to speak which is
imago Dei “image of God”. In Christianity is thought that over the time human shave degraded
and now with the cross and gods prayer human are reunited to god. It’s a spiritual relationship
between human and God which include honor and respect for both.
As humans life depend on healthcare thus by concentrating the attention on preserving
life and giving dignity to everyone, health care specialist are able to value human’s life above
anything else on earth, like it’s a duty towards God (Evans, 2019). Due to modernization
humans are believed to be no more than a sick body who comes to hospitals for treatment. This
though is rude and wrong. The concept has importance because of imago Dei does not supports
it.
It is relevant because if we believe in Image Dei then morally human should not eat
another organism. Thus as humans are places as an image of God they are superior to all the
animals. According to the concept of imago dei, humans are placed as separate and superior