Life is sacred. lesson plan for Orkse (4th grade) on the topic. Lesson summary with presentation on orxe on the topic “life is sacred” (grade 4) Human life is inviolable

“You shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13).

Throughout human history, people have killed each other for the sake of wealth, power and fame. In the sixth commandment of the Law of God, the Lord indicates the value of human life. The source of life on Earth is God. Life is God's sacred gift to people.

Human life is inviolable

Many people recognize that man was created by God, in the image and likeness of God and for God. That is why his life is inviolable and priceless. Man has no right to destroy it. The Sixth Commandment prohibits murder initiated by the devil. Holy Scripture speaks of him as “a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44).

Our Savior Jesus Christ came into this world as the Son of Man and through the sacrifice on the cross of Calvary brought salvation to sinful man from eternal death. To take a person's life is to interfere with God's plans for everyone who has life in them.

Everything that God created serves to preserve and continue life. Every person values his life and in moments of greatest danger is ready to sacrifice everything to preserve it. For example, when the Titanic sank in April 1912, millionaires offered huge amounts of money just to give them a seat on a lifeboat, but there were no people willing to do this. And today, in order to save their lives, or at least extend it a little, people are ready to spend large sums.

Some might say that in polite society, especially Christian society, the sixth commandment is unnecessary. But, reading the Holy Scriptures, we are convinced that it has a much deeper meaning. Referring to the sixth commandment, Jesus Christ says: “You have heard what was said to the ancients: “Do not kill; whoever kills will be subject to judgment.” But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without cause will be subject to judgment; who will say to his brother: “rak”<пустой человек>, subject to the Sanhedrin; But whoever says, “You fool,” is liable to hell fire” (Matthew 5:21, 22).

As we see, Jesus Christ classifies the violation of the sixth commandment as anger, the spirit of hatred, vengeance, and evil feelings. People overwhelmed by such feelings destroy their spiritual and physical health, killing, first of all, themselves. The wise King Solomon claims that “A discouraged spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22), and doctors agree with this. Moreover, at a certain point in life, such feelings can become a reason for murder. This is what happened to Cain, the first murderer on Earth. “Cain was greatly distressed...” (Genesis 4:5). This is where the story of his murder of his brother begins - with hatred towards Abel.

Deep inner hatred of other people and murder are often closely interrelated. The Apostle John speaks clearly on this matter: “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life" (1 John 3:15). An unexpected outburst of anger often leads to murder, which in no way justifies the criminal. Thus, under the influence of feelings, a person can become a murderer.

Sin of suicide

Murder also includes deliberately shortening the years of one's life. By using tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, people destroy their health. The Apostle Paul writes: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God lives in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will punish him: for the temple of God is holy; and this [temple] is you" (1 Corinthians 3:16, 17).

We are responsible before God for the body He gave us. Some people believe that they have the right to live their lives and treat their own bodies as they please because they are only responsible to themselves. But Holy Scripture refutes this opinion: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who dwells in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your soul, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20).

So, everything that destroys physical health and shortens our life expectancy on Earth is murder. The destruction of the body also includes excessive work without rest, heavy physical activity, which can lead not only to various diseases and injuries, but even to death. An unreasonable, risky, intemperate lifestyle entails a violation of the sixth commandment.

You can kill with words

Speaking about the commandment “thou shalt not kill,” it should be noted that you can kill a person morally: with words, with our attitude towards him. Scripture Warns that Words Can Be Fulfilled "deadly poison" (James 3:8), turn into "killing arrow" (Jeremiah 9:8), “sharp sword” (Psalm 56:5), i.e. into instruments of death. Thoughtless words can bring a lot of grief to the people around you. Such words include threats and humiliation, ridicule and slander.

Accomplices to murder

Sometimes people themselves do not take a person’s life, but become accomplices in the crime, which is also a violation of the sixth commandment. Therefore, those who order it are also guilty of murder. For example, the killing of Uriah in battle was counted as a sin to King David, who developed a plan for the death of Uriah (2 Samuel 11:15; 12:9).

We read about the Apostle Paul that before his conversion to God, he approved of the murder of Stephen (Acts 8:1), becoming an accomplice to the murder.

God is the source of life, including life in the womb, and therefore hates death in any of its manifestations. Thus, the commandment “thou shalt not kill” is also directed against abortion.

To fulfill the sixth commandment means to contribute to the preservation of life. The words “thou shalt not kill” call upon us to make the decision to exchange anger for mercy, and hatred and violence for forgiveness and love. This is the gospel understanding of this expression, which is based on human well-being and prosperity.

Miron Vovk

God's law(Bible, Exodus 20)

I. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.

II. You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the water under the earth. Do not worship them or serve them; For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, and showing mercy to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

III. Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not leave without punishment the one who takes His name in vain.

IV. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Work six days and do all your work; and the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: on it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your maidservant, nor your livestock, nor the stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord created heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

V. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

VI. Dont kill.

VII. Don't commit adultery.

VIII. Don't steal.

IX. Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.

Topic: Life is Sacred

Goals: - give an idea of the concepts: human life, common human values;

Learn to formulate questions and answer them, structure educational material according to a proposed plan, work with a variety of sources of information, plan and control educational activities, formalize and present the results of work, evaluate your activities

Personal results:

development of ethical feelings, goodwill and emotional and moral responsiveness, understanding and empathy for the feelings of other people.

Subject results:

awareness of the value of human life.

Meta-subject results:

mastering the initial forms of cognitive and personal reflection; willingness to listen to the interlocutor and engage in dialogue; willingness to acknowledge the possibility of the existence of different points of view on the assessment of events; participate in a conversation, debate, substantiate your point of view

During the classes

Org. moment. Checking readiness for the lesson

Updating knowledge

What is ethics?

Golden rule of ethics?

What do we call universal human values?

Do you agree with Cicero’s statement “To live is to think”?

III . Self-determination for activity

School p.81Slide No. 1

Work on the topic of the lesson

1.Work in notebooks. Slide No. 2

Read the words. Do they evoke the same response or different?

Why?

Write down the 7 concepts that are most significant to you. Explain your choice.

(After the student’s statements, the teacher makes a generalization)

You see, each of you has chosen words that fill your life with joy, meaning, decorate it, what is dear to your soul, what is important to you. You have identified what your needs are most expressed and what you could not do without. Let's think about what this is connected with?

Slide No. 3 PERSONS HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS.

2.Introduction to types of needs. Slide No. 4-5

Look at the slides and say what is shown. Why do people need them? Why do we save?

Conclusion: there are two main differences between human needs: material and spiritual.

Give your own examples.

Look at your written words, what needs did you choose, what guided you? What does the soul strive for?

3.Introduction to the concepts of SPIRIT-SOUL - SPIRITUALITY

- Read the words. Similar concepts?

Let's turn to dictionaries.Slide No. 6

Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

Duh-b wisdom, moral, to action.

Soul - mental phenomena, experiences, mental life of a person.

Spirituality - detachment from the base, sensual interests, to internal improvement, height of spirit

Ozhegov's Dictionary

Spirituality - With soul, consisting in the predominance of spiritual, moral and intellectual interests over material

Spirit - inner, moral strength

Soul - inner, mental world ah, his consciousness

Human spirituality as a desire for high, higher meanings of one’s life generalizes these concepts and conveys the main meaning for a person of his feelings and actions.

What do you think, from what needs does life develop and improve, art is born, books are created, scientific discoveries are made, feats are accomplished?

Can we say that these are spiritual achievements of both a specific person and humanity?

4. Parable " Vessel of Life" .Slide number 7

Once, one sage, standing in front of his students, took a large glass vessel and filled it to the brim with large stones. Having done this, he asked the disciples if the vessel was full. Everyone confirmed - yes, it’s full.

Then the sage took a box of small pebbles, poured it into a vessel and gently shook it several times. The pebbles rolled into the gaps between the large stones and filled them. After this, the sage again asked the disciples if the vessel was now full. They confirmed again – it’s full.

And finally the sage took a box of sand from the table and poured it into a vessel. Sand, of course, filled the last gaps between the stones.

Now,” the sage addressed the students, “I would like you to be able to see your life in this vessel.

Large stones represent the important things in life: your path, your faith, your family, your loved one, your health, your children - those things that, even without everything else, can still fill your life.

Small pebbles represent less important things.

Sand – these are the little things in life, the everyday bustle.

If you fill your vessel with sand first, there will be no room left for larger stones. It’s the same in life: if you spend all your energy on small actions, then there will be nothing left for big ones. Therefore, pay attention, first of all, to important things, find time for your children and loved ones, and take care of your health. You still have enough time for work, for home, for celebrations and everything else.

Watch your big stones - only they have a price, everything else is sand...

So what is the truth?

Slide number 8 True:SEEK THE HIGH, IMPORTANT IN LIFE , that fills human life with deep meaning.

What can become the main and highest thing for a person?

What is the main meaning of the concept of life?

What does a person strive for? (to creativity)

Give the opposite meaning. (Destruction)Slide No. 9

Any destruction around or within oneself destroys life itself. Is this what a person strives for?

What simple moral truth becomes the main one?

Slide No. 10 - LIFE IS SACRED.

- Life and man are the highest value. What follows from this? (Life is untouchable)

6.Working with statements. Slide No. 11

LIFE IS THE ONLY GOOD GIVEN TO MAN FROM BIRTH. Seneca LIFE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN WEALTH AND HONOR OF ALL. Omar Khayyam

Let's think about what human experience calls us to understand about life.

V . Reflection. Summarizing.

Write down in your notebooks what you consider important in life. What is life to you?

Slide No. 12

D/z: Uch.p.82-85; d/z (proverbs and sayings about the significance of human life

Give an idea of the concepts: human life, common universal values; learn to formulate questions and answer them, structure educational material according to the proposed plan, work with various sources of information, plan and control educational activities, formalize and present the results of work, evaluate your activities.

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Subject. Life is sacred.

Goals: give an idea of the concepts: human life, common universal values; learn to formulate questions and answer them, structure educational material according to the proposed plan, work with various sources of information, plan and control educational activities, formalize and present the results of work, evaluate your activities.

Personal results:development of ethical feelings, goodwill and emotional and moral responsiveness, understanding and empathy for the feelings of other people.

Subject results:awareness of the value of human life.

Meta-subject results:mastering the initial forms of cognitive and personal reflection; willingness to listen to the interlocutor and engage in dialogue; willingness to acknowledge the possibility of the existence of different points of view on the assessment of events; participate in a conversation, debate, substantiate your point of view.

During the classes.

I. Organizational moment of the lesson. Checking readiness for the lesson.

II. Updating knowledge.

What is ethics?

Golden rule of ethics?

What do we call universal human values?

Do you agree with Cicero’s statement “To live is to think”?

III. Self-determination for activity.

IV. Work on the topic of the lesson.

1. Work in notebooks.

Write down the 7 concepts that are most significant to you. Explain your choice.

PERSONS HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS.

2. Familiarity with the types of needs.

There are two main differences between human needs: material and spiritual.

Look at your written words, what needs did you choose, what guided you?

What does the soul strive for?

3.Introduction to the concepts of SPIRIT - SOUL - SPIRITUALITY.

- Read the words. Similar concepts?

Let's turn to dictionaries.

4. Working with Ushakov’s explanatory dictionary.

Duh-b courage, moralforce , readiness to action.

Soul - totality mental phenomena, experiences,the basis mental life of a person.

Spirituality - detachment from the base,rough sensual interests,pursuit to internal improvement, height of spirit.

5. Working with Ozhegov’s dictionary.

Spirituality - with army soul, consisting in the predominance of spiritual, moral and intellectual interests over material ones.

Spirit - internal, moral strength.

Soul - inner, mental worldHuman ah, his consciousness.

Human spirituality as a desire for high, higher meanings of one’s life generalizes these concepts and conveys the main meaning for a person of his feelings and actions.

What do you think, from what needs does life develop and improve, art is born, books are created, scientific discoveries are made, feats are accomplished?

Can we say that these are spiritual achievements of both a specific person and humanity?

4. Parable “The Vessel of Life.”

And finally the sage took a box of sand from the table and poured it into a vessel. Sand, of course, filled the last gaps between the stones.

Now,” the sage addressed the students, “I would like you to be able to see your life in this vessel.

Large stones represent the important things in life: your path, your faith, your family, your loved one, your health, your children - those things that, even without everything else, can still fill your life.

Small pebbles represent less important things.

Sand – these are the little things in life, the everyday bustle.

Watch your big stones - only they have a price, everything else is sand...

So what is the truth?

True: SEEK THE HIGH, IMPORTANT IN LIFE,that fills human life with deep meaning.

What can become the main and highest thing for a person?

What is the main meaning of the concept of life?

What does a person strive for? (Towards creativity.)

Give the opposite meaning. (Destruction.)

Any destruction around or within oneself destroys life itself. Is this what a person strives for?

What simple moral truth becomes the main one? (Life is sacred).

- Life and man are the highest value. What follows from this? (Life is untouchable).

5. Working with statements.

LIFE IS THE ONLY GOOD GIVEN TO MAN FROM BIRTH. Seneca

LIFE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN WEALTH AND HONOR OF ALL. Omar Khayyam

Let's think about what human experience calls us to understand about life?

V. Reflection. Summarizing.

What do you consider to be the most important thing in life?

What is life to you?

The point of view of the church was stated at the request of the editors by priest Anthony Ilyin, an employee of the Secretariat for Relations between Church and Society of the DECR MP (Department for External Church Relations), candidate of theology, specialist in bioethics:
- The Russian Orthodox Church formulated its attitude to the problem of cloning in a document adopted by the Jubilee Council of Bishops in August 2000. Human cloning seems unacceptable as an attempt by man to play the role of God and is a challenge to God's plan for man, rejecting the freedom and uniqueness of the human person created in the image of God. In this regard, the recent legislative initiative of the Russian government to introduce a five-year moratorium receives a positive, but at the same time restrained assessment from the church, because not in five, not in fifty years, ethical arguments in defense of human cloning cannot appear. Based on this, it would be wiser for Russia to accede to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and the Additional Protocol on the Prohibition of the Cloning of Human Beings of the Council of Europe as soon as possible.
But so-called “reproductive” cloning is only one layer of the problem, especially since its final ban by the entire world community is a matter of time. “Therapeutic” cloning is at the forefront of the ethical debate at the moment, and there will obviously not be complete consensus on this issue anytime soon. Therapeutic cloning, that is, the creation of human embryos for the purpose of using them to treat various diseases, began to be discussed in connection with progress in the research of embryonic stem cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and tissues of the body, which will make it possible to treat previously incurable diseases.
The human embryo thus becomes nothing more than “raw material” for obtaining these stem cells. For the Orthodox Church, which recognizes the embryo from the moment of conception as a human being possessing the sacred gift of life, any manipulations with embryos that obviously involve their destruction are unacceptable.
What should the tens, hundreds of patients around the world suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes mellitus do? Is it really possible to take away their hope? In no case. The Church does not oppose the progress of science, but does not accept the ideology of “progressivism,” that is, progress at any cost. It is necessary to look for alternative sources of obtaining stem cells, and this is quite realistic, since stem cells are found not only in the embryo, but also in an adult: in the nervous system, bone marrow, mammary gland, etc. Research in this direction has not advanced as far as in the case of embryonic stem cells, however, even in the latter case, it is still far from being introduced into clinical practice. Isn't it better then to make a choice based on moral principles, based on reverence for life itself?