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Maddog

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Ok, I believe that while its a zygote its not a people, and I don't really believe it is a person while it is an embryo. I do believe it is a person when it is a fetus. I am not going to type out why, if you want to know pick up a book and read about it.
Serious question: do you actually know why you believe as you do? Even if you're unwilling to articulate it here, do you believe there is sound reasoning as to why a zygote isn't person, but a foetus is?
 
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Ok, I believe that while its a zygote its not a people, and I don't really believe it is a person while it is an embryo. I do believe it is a person when it is a fetus. I am not going to type out why, if you want to know pick up a book and read about it.
So, let's go and rip all the seeds out of the ground, and see how many trees we have in a generation or two.
In the same way -- kill all the babies that are in their mothers' wombs, and see how many people are in the generations to come.
OBVIOUSLY, there would be a ton less people, because, in this case, they would all have died -- when you KILLED THEM.
 
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MissCris

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The tiny cells that a human being grows from are ALIVE...so I always wonder why people don't think of the removal/disposal of those LIVING cells as killing anything. To make it worse, those LIVING cells are HUMAN cells, with the potential to grow into a HUMAN BEING. It may not be the sort of murder that we're used to hearing about/seeing on TV or whatever, but it's still killing something that is alive.

Maybe if people can't accept that abortion is murder, we should put it under the category of theft- an entire future is stolen from every child that is aborted.
 
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The tiny cells that a human being grows from are ALIVE...so I always wonder why people don't think of the removal/disposal of those LIVING cells as killing anything. To make it worse, those LIVING cells are HUMAN cells, with the potential to grow into a HUMAN BEING. It may not be the sort of murder that we're used to hearing about/seeing on TV or whatever, but it's still killing something that is alive.

Maybe if people can't accept that abortion is murder, we should put it under the category of theft- an entire future is stolen from every child that is aborted.
Life PRE-EXISTS "conception" -- the sperm and egg are alive! Life does NOT begin at conception!
 
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MissCris

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Er...isn't that what I said?
 
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I absolutely wish someone would show the different abortions on tv... The news.. The medical channels... Talk shows... Wherever! I wish they would blur out the moms' faces and show the general public.. The before, during and ending procedures AND the "non-human being" remains that come from these abortions. I think many many MANY people would think twice about being pro-choice. And now that I think of it.. We show nudity, gory horror scenes, rape, sex in general, abuse of alcohol and drugs, domestic abuse, plastic surgery type scenarios on tv 24/7 ...why does no one show us what happens in an abortion? ..because it's horrible, disgusting, heart-wrenching? So are many of those other things... We need a giant smack in the face when it comes to this. Honestly!
 
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jimmydiggs

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Genocide is mass murder.
So is abortion.

Guttmacher said:
Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 67% among blacks and 53% among Hispanics are unintended.[1] In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. However, between 2005 and 2008, the long-term decline in abortions stalled. From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States <--- click

The American Abortion Industry, has outpaced Stalin by far.

A fetus doesn't even have a heartbeat till week 5, so by that logic its not a person yet. However if we go only by the heartbeat making someone a person then I guess I and everyone hear should stop eating meat.
I don't let humans decide that other humans aren't human. I let God decide what constitutes being human. Humans have a bad history of labeling other groups as sub-human, or non-human. Social Darwinism coupled with racist evolutionary theory in the 19th and 20th centuries, claimed that blacks were a group non-human apes. I have a Rand McNally Atlas back home from 1902 that has a section on "the races of the world" that attests to this.

FightHate said:
The Jews are &#8220;the filthiest and greatest of criminals, who [only] appear to be human,&#8221; said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a speech last week.
Ahmadinejad: Jews aren?t human <--- click
Ahmadinejad isn't the first to tout that line.
 
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Serious question: do you actually know why you believe as you do? Even if you're unwilling to articulate it here, do you believe there is sound reasoning as to why a zygote isn't person, but a foetus is?
Yes I absolutely do.
 

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So, let's go and rip all the seeds out of the ground, and see how many trees we have in a generation or two.
In the same way -- kill all the babies that are in their mothers' wombs, and see how many people are in the generations to come.
OBVIOUSLY, there would be a ton less people, because, in this case, they would all have died -- when you KILLED THEM.
who said anything about ALL the babies? 83% of abortions occur in the developing world where people simply cannot feed another child. only 17% happen in the developed world and the UK and USA actually have fairly low statistics compared to the worldwide numbers.
 

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I absolutely wish someone would show the different abortions on tv... The news.. The medical channels... Talk shows... Wherever! I wish they would blur out the moms' faces and show the general public.. The before, during and ending procedures AND the "non-human being" remains that come from these abortions. I think many many MANY people would think twice about being pro-choice. And now that I think of it.. We show nudity, gory horror scenes, rape, sex in general, abuse of alcohol and drugs, domestic abuse, plastic surgery type scenarios on tv 24/7 ...why does no one show us what happens in an abortion? ..because it's horrible, disgusting, heart-wrenching? So are many of those other things... We need a giant smack in the face when it comes to this. Honestly!
I have seen abortion. I am a nurse.

Have you? Because what you are describing is not what I have seen.
 
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Possum

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Erm no. Its really not.

I wish I knew how to quote lots of people at once. It would make life so much easier.
Lol leelee - I know, the quoting thing isn't easy!

Someone said about a sperm and an egg being alive - I'm not sure what the definition of life is, but I disagree. A sperm, and an egg, individually don't have any potential to be a human being. They must be joined. There must be a difference between 'life' and 'human life' for people, because people kill for meat and vegetables etc. I posted another thread about 'how do we know that we're right', and the same applies here - people have unshakable views on things, but these views are different. Personally I believe some things, but others believe others. We can't know for absolute certain that our personal beliefs are the same as God's.
I have always been against abortions in most cases, and have believed that it is a human being from conception. I haven't always been a Christian, so my views aren't based on my religious views.

Sometimes abortions are necessary. For example, in an ectopic pregnancy. If the pregnancy isn't aborted when it is discovered, the woman puts herself at the risk of major illness or death. But there will never be a baby born. If the pregnancy is aborted, then the woman should recover. If it isn't, there still won't be a baby, but the woman may well die.
 
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Just went to read my bible (going start to finish).
Funnily, I was reading Psalm 51. Verse 5-6 says 'for I was born a sinner - yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.'

Just thought I would share. I felt that bit spoke to me since I was reading this thread earlier.
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who said anything about ALL the babies? 83% of abortions occur in the developing world where people simply cannot feed another child. only 17% happen in the developed world and the UK and USA actually have fairly low statistics compared to the worldwide numbers.
"the baby is a person" is what i was saying -- not "where abortions happen"
 
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I have seen abortion. I am a nurse.

Have you? Because what you are describing is not what I have seen.
I said all the different types of abortions.. Not all of them are cut and dry. And yes I have seen a few.. It was required at the Christian university I attended to learn about and watch a movie on abortions during biology. Needless to say I cried my eyes out.
 
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I said all the different types of abortions.. Not all of them are cut and dry. And yes I have seen a few.. It was required at the Christian university I attended to learn about and watch a movie on abortions during biology. Needless to say I cried my eyes out.
They would show a biased version I think. Most abortions are early and involve taking a tablet and result in what looks like a heavy period. It's funny about statistics - a pro-life group and a pro-choice group could be given the same set of data and take different information from it.
 
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MissCris

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Regardless of HOW an abortion is done, whether through herbs or a pill or whatever other methods there are...it results in the same thing: death.
 
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I agree - my point was that the Christian University that someone attended where they were shown a video about abortion would have probably been biased towards showing it as a violents/bloody thing rather than what actually happens.
 

heislord

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God invented sex but he also gave us boundaries that should be keept in those boundaries or it could becomes deadly and destructive. In some cases it can become like a drug and get addictive. It starts slowly it can destroy your mind, family, marriage, your future no one just wakes up and is addicted to porn, necrophilia, and other sick things out there. God created sex for marriage between a man and a woman only anything else is a sin and it's called fornication. Sex outside marriage can effect you! It breaks your heart ,effects you soul, unwanted pregnancies, sexual transmitted diseases and so forth. You don't have to believe the lies the culture tells you. As Christian we should be looking at what God's word says, not what the media and shows tell you. Parents should be honest with there kids not just tell them to remain virgins and that is all the education they get. I'm not preaching ignorance but truth. Tell them why they should not have sex ,teach them why it's wrong, and what the bible says. Have them ask questions so that they are not left curious about the facts of sexual intercourse. God says sex is good in marriage and wrong outside of marriage. All sin is pleasurable for a season then the wages sin come.

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passions.1 Corinthians 7:9


I totally agree
 
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maddy

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According to God's word things are black and white, there's truth or lies, right or wrong. Just because the circumstances that created that child are horrible does not mean that it is ok to break God's law. Does it make it easy? No, but God can help us overcome anything. As an aside, it's only about 1% of abortions that are attributed to rape or incest, that means 99% of abortions are just "easy" fixes for our easy lives.[/quote}

Yes, I agree.