Luke 14:1-5 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. (2) Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy. (3) And Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees, "Is it lawful to cure people on the sabbath, or not?" (4) But they were silent. So Jesus took him and healed him, and sent him away. (5) Then he said to them, "If one of you has a child or an ox that has fallen into a well, will you not immediately pull it out on a sabbath day?"
Okay here's the logic
1. It's a common thought that working on the Sabbath is bad
2. But your child or even your Ox dying is even worse
3. So we choose the least worst option which is work to save the lives of the child or even animal.
Okay here's some more Jesus
1. It's a common thought that giving a drug addict a needle is bad
2. But someone dying from blood bourne virus after having shared a dirty needle is even worse.
3. So we choose the least worst option which is give the druaddictct a clean needle to save their life.
So why is it that Christian organisations condemn Needle and syring exchangene programs (NSEPs)?
Surely arguments like...
"Giving people clean needles only encourages them to keep using" could be applied to Jesus' example, ie: "Rescuing people from a well only encourages them to jump down them".
I have no Idea why Xns would be against NSEPs
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