Rationalize means to come up with an incorrect, but self-satisfying reason for bad behavior.
There is a difference!
The young boy "justified" his use of marijuana by saying "All my friends do it!"
Should the boy have said that he "rationalized" his use? Would not that have been correct instead of "justified"? Most certainly! Day in and day out those who do bad or silly things inaccurately "justify" their actions. They lie to themselves. They satisfy their own lax standards of conduct. Those who live in make-believe worlds where people lie to themselves to escape guilt are the ultimate dysfunctional in this world!
Let's examine a sin. You pick one. There are many! What's that? "Abortion" you say! Let's go with that one. Many people rationalize their opinion based on false justification.
Rationalization #1: The fetus is not yet human.
Truth: A fetus is a stage in human development with all systems working in harmony. A fetus has a personality. By crawling through the birth canal there is no magic involved. A fetus does not turn into a baby. It has been a baby all along! This is medical fact, but is conveniently forgotten who rationalize cruel thought in the guise of love and concern. Ask them and they would say that their belief is "justified". They lie to themselves to free themselves from blame and guilt.
Rationalization #2: The Bible says nothing about abortion.
Truth: Thou shalt not kill isn't all that vague. Any serious Christian, no anyone, should understand that simple statement. However, by using rationalization #1, #2 gets easier. Lies "justify" lies. (i.e., by rationalizing that fetus's are just tissue, it makes it easy to believe that nothing has been killed.
Do you realize that the word "accident" isn't used in the King James Version. "Accident" is a modern term to help us rationalize bad actions. "Mischief" is the keyword for finding this verse (now that's truth!):
Exodus 21:22 "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life..."
"Accidentally" causing a woman to abort is grounds for a person to be punished (and according to the husband's judgment!). If the abortion was caused by "mischief" (on purpose) then the person causing the abortion is to die!
If you need more clarity on what the fetus in the womb is, try this on for size:
Matthew 1:23 " Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us."
Here we see that Mary had a "child" in her womb! Not only that, but she brought forth a child. He was a boy child; a son. He is "God with us" (Emmanuel). If Mary had been handy to King Herod, Jesus would have been aborted. Since news traveled slowly in those days Old King Herod tried infanticide! That's what happens to live-born babies who survive the hatchet. They are killed. That's infanticide. How does anyone rationalize that?
Rationalization #3: "A child would never be happy with a deformity or in poverty".
Truth: Those deformed or poor can be just as happy as anyone else because that's the norm for them! It's egotistical to think of yourself as the ideal model for happiness! Anecdotal evidence shows that the perfect, the popular and the rich are prone to suicide. Just look at the famous people who do it all the time.
Let's deal with poverty first. That's part of God's plan:
1 Samuel 2:7 "The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up."
The poor are born into poverty. Their parents are poor too! That's life. God has a special place for the poor because they're normally the "meek". They shall inherit the earth! That goes right along with "The Lord... maketh rich... and lifteth up!" Those born poor have incentive. Through God all things are possible. He made my affluent life possible because I certainly wasn't born into substantial means!
How about the deformed?
John 9:2 "And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
Defective people aren't defective necessarily because anyone sinned. It's for God's purpose! Those who rationalize use "God is a cruel God." or "God doesn't exist." to explain why deformed people can't be happy and why their is no God. God has a penalty planned for them! We'll see who has the last say in that matter.
What's more some of the most happy people are known to be those born with Down's Syndrome, but those babies are murdered every day in the thousands by abortion because "The deformed can never be happy!"
Rationalization #4: "A baby born as a product of rape can never be happy."
Truth: The same truth as above! I have seen interviews of adults born as a result of rape who're more normal than those who rationalize! There is no correlation between "happiness" and "how I was conceived". That's rationalization!
Rationalization #5: "I'm in favor of abortion if it is to save the life of the mother."
Truth: Abortion laws have nothing to do with that. Throughout history doctors had to make very serious and dire decisions and sometimes the mother lived and sometimes the child. However, he was obligated by the Hippocratic Oath to endeavor to save them both! Here's a portion of that oath:
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art."
It might seem that the oath would not allow the loss of the baby to save the life of the mother, but the doctor is pledged to "keep them from harm and injustice". He did what was right! Doctors no longer take the oath. That's "rationalization: for evil practiced by the AMA!
Rationalization #6: "I'm pro-choice, but I'm not personally in favor of abortion."
Truth: Libertarian ideas never take precedence over God's word! Freedom to kill is not a Constitutional guarantee. In fact the Declaration of Independence guarantees the "right to life".
Those who allow abortion and fail to defeat that wrong are just as guilty as the gentiles who stood idly by and let the Jews be killed. "I'm pro-what's best for the regime, although I'm against exterminating the Jews!" Those fools who allow this "rationalization" by the baby killer are just as guilty as the Christian was who just sang a little louder when the German death trains went by the church with Jews wailing and screaming. Yes, the baby has a "silent scream", but many of us can hear it because we choose to!
Rationalization! You get the point. I could go on and on. However, Christians who favor abortion are accomplices to murder and are just as guilty as the one who wields the scalpel! I certainly wouldn't want murder on my record on the judgment day!
Revelation 20:11 "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
So your "work: of favoring abortion is okay? Tell that to God. You WILL get the chance!
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