It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Theresa
There are numerous reason our generation has aborted over a billion babies in the last few decades. For such a common act, few have ever seen an actual abortion. Few understand the emotional trauma and physical danger millions of post abortive women experience. Fewer still have a clear understanding of the overwhelming emphasis the Bible places on being authentically pro-life.
When asked how to get to heaven Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan who's actions are the antithesis to abortion. By His incarnation and costly atonement, His teachings and example Christ makes it abundantly clear that living faith requires "loving our neighbor as ourselves" not in "word but in deed". The pre-born are our the ultimate neighbor, forming children fully dependent on sharing their mother's body. Sadly, legalized abortion on demand for any reason at any stage of development has turned a mother's womb into the most dangerous place on earth. For the Bible believing and obeying Christian. there can be no debate. So often the result of immorality and the ultimate example of the original sin of entitlement, scripture clearly warns that such atrocity will not only bring the undiluted justice and judgment of God, but in the meantime will abort the prayers, worship and even salvation of those responsible or failing to get involved.
In an attempt to justify either participation in or indifference to this pinnacle sin of mankind, many speciously argue the word "abortion" is not in the Bible. For example, the Biblical doctrine that most distinguishes Christianity from all other past and present world religions is that of the Trinity. Yet, while scripture’s teaching on the Trinity is equally unique and foundation to our faith, the word itself is also never used in the Bible.. For this reason and many others, understanding scripture on this matter is this extremely relevant to both modern culture and Christianity. The question is, does Almighty God really have to list every kind of murder for His followers to get the point? Need the Bible say, “Thou shall not murder innocent children in the womb of their mothers for those Christ commanded to “do to others what you would have done to you” fully open their eyes and realize that killing many times the Earth’s population in Christ’s day has been, is, and continues to be a deadly mistake?
The command to care and love children, at every age, is ubiquitous in scripture. Even so, without this kind of killing specifically mentioned some cling to the misguided idea that the issue of abortion is omitted in scripture. Yet few would make use the same argument for murder by "machine gun." The truth is God's feelings about abortion are anything but vague. Omnity knows if humanity’s sharp enough to uncover the presence of and split the atom, we can understand the truth of this issue if we care to. After all, we are told that when only a fist sized second trimester fetus, John the Baptist when a "Babe" in Elizabeth's womb leapt for joy at the presence of Jesus, a thumb sized first trimester embryo, carried safely to term by His faithful mother Mary.
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