One of the strangest excuses I have heard for abortion comes from Professing chritians and African American Christians after explaining to them the origin of Planned Parenthood. I have been told by many Christians, that abortion is wrong yet so is bringing a child into the world that will starve, or be abused. Is that statement true? BUT Is it biblical?
The answer I believe after much prayer and looking at the word of God for me is a resounding NO!
Why? it seems moral and practical not to bring children into a world where they will possibly die due to starvation as in many third-world countries. I have heard some say: "who going to take care of them you ?" "Foster care- is not a good place either. and adoption will not handle all of them" .
These are all valid arguments. However is it Biblical?
No.
the word of God records 100 verses in context to God knowing us before we were born. Was starvation a reality in the bible? Yes. what about child abuse? yes.
the Word of God:
Jem 1:5
God said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Gal1:15 "But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,
Isaiah 44:2 Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Luke 1:41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Psalm 139: 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
100 verses in the word of God like these here in both the Old and New Testament
The Word of God is truth.
Not human morality. Not human rationale or emotional content.
it is clear Abortion is men and women playing God because they walk after the flesh not in the Spirit. Able's Blood cried from the Ground to GOD! and the blood of the murdered do this something day and night. Starvation and even abuse are not reason enough to murder innocent blood. God will deal with all who support such wickedness and try to justify it with false compassion.
It is nothing more than one Playing god. and that is also idolatry. Those who are professing Christians who ask whose going to take care of them must ask God if they are to open their homes. YET much of the starvation and abuse of children would stop IF corrupt Governments would not profit from abortion. Abortion is not the cause of starvation and children being born surely is not the cause.
WE as Christian Must stand for life. In and out of the womb.
Greetings, CS1!
CS1 (Post #42): " . . . the word of God records 100 verses in context to God knowing us before we were born."
one of several examples provided by CS1:
"Psalm 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb."
GOD: And?
CS1: WE as Christians MUST stand for life. In and out of the womb.
GOD:
13 . . . "I am going to put an end to all people, . . . I am . . . going to destroy . . . them . . . 17 I am going . . . to destroy all life . . . every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything . . . will perish. 4 . . . I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature . . . " (Ge 6.13,17; 7.4, NIV84)
Genesis 7.21-23, NIV84:
21 Every living thing . . . perished-- . . . all mankind. 22 Everything on . . . land . . . died. 23 Every living thing . . . was wiped out; men . . . were wiped from the earth. . . .
CS1 (changing the subject from the sanctity of human life to whether certain humanitarian arguments for abortion are scriptural) :
" . . . It seems moral and practical not to bring children into a world where they will possibly die due to starvation . . . I have heard some say: . . . 'Foster care is not a good place . . . and adoption will not handle all of them.'
These are all valid arguments. However, is it Biblical?"
whisperer:
"Biblical"?
Is it not EXCEEDINGLY BIBLICAL to save an innocent fetus or embryo from one day being dragged--UNHOPED-FOR, UNINTENDED, and UNWANTED--into a world PROFOUNDLY IMPERFECT?
Is it not EXCEEDINGLY BIBLICAL to prevent some UNWANTED and UTTERLY DEPENDENT entity from becoming a SERIOUS BOTHER or perhaps even an OVERWHELMING BURDEN to a young girl or woman already coping far from superlatively with a challenging existence of her own?
Is it Biblical? Omigosh! JESUS! LORD JESUS!
JESUS (to CS1):
37 . . . " 'Love the Lord your God . . . ' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love . . . ' 40 All the Law and the Prophets [ i.e., the SCRIPTURES in their entirety ] hang on these two commandments." (Mt 22:37-40, NIV84)
34 "A new command I give you: Love . . . you must love . . . 12 My command is this: Love . . . 17 This is my command: Love . . . (Jn 13.34; 15.12,17 NIV84)
12 In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, . . . this sums up the Law and the Prophets. [ i.e., THE BIBLE in its entirety ] (Mt 7:12, NIV84)
31 Do to others [ --e.g., to unborn, unwanted, insentient hominoids and also to women saddled with unwanted pregnancies-- ] as you would have . . . [others] do to you. (Lk 6:31, NIV84)
CS1:
" . . . [Well, it does seem] moral and practical not to bring children into a world where they will possibly die due to starvation . . . "
"Professing Christians and African American Christians" (according to CS1) : " . . . or be abused. . . . "
whisperer:
Unquestionably. In fact, show me someone who is keen to avoid bringing little children into a world "not worthy of them" (Heb 11:38), and I will show you someone who is keen to love as Jesus commanded and to do so not only in word but "in deed and IN TRUTH."
(1Jn 3:18, modified KJV)
All the best to you, CS1!
Ge 6.13,17; 7.4,21-23, NIV84:
13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made." 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. . . .
Mt 22.37-40, NIV84:
37 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Jn 13.34; 15.12,17 NIV84:
34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
Mt 7.12, NIV84:
12 In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Lk 6.31, NIV84:
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.