I never thought much about life until out of necessity it became a huge question for me! Due to desire, inexperience, naivete, and ignoring the guidance of the Holy Spirit as an eighteen year-old, I was faced with fatherhood. Some suggested an abortion. I didn't know what the act entailed and had never considered how precious life is! One thing I knew for sure, there was no way that my own child would be killed! I certainly wouldn't be a party to such an atrocious activity! The mother of the child agreed. My son shall live!
Behind my beliefs at that time was not one of what God would say, but the long-forgotten memory of those dead kittens. How could the mother have done that? How could we as potential parents do the same? Only then did I become a zealot in defense of life; a zealot for what's right!
Before legalalized abortion commencing at the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision called Roe v. Wade in 1973, those who propagated the idea, showed photographs of naked women bleeding profusely who had attempted mutilation of their babies by the use of coat hangars. It is shocking to say the least, but that was not the norm! (The same people who thought those photos acceptable now cringe at the idea of showing an aborted baby !) . Pro-abortion groups estimate abortion rates were in the millions per year, but there is absolutely no data available, and the inflated numbers have been used to falsely justify abortion. As a matter of fac,t even in today's era of reporting and technology, the actual numbers are still ambiguous. It is certain that the abortion demographics was exceedingly small before Roe V. Wade when compared to botched abortions in back-alley clinics today where second-rate doctors have little standards of practice!
Sanctity of life is a value of society. It's what makes us civil. Likewise, it's a value of mankind. It is what makes us human! It's a principle which justified democracy in America "the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" stated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Above and beyond civility, "whatever God has joined together, let no man put asunder" (Mark 10:9). Although the direct discussion is about the sanctity of marriage, the verse does say "what therefore" meaning "whatsoever" or "anything" which includes life! The life of men:
Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."The philosophers of old realized that mankind is above the animal kingdom. We have a mind, body and soul. Within Judeo-Christianity it has always been taken to be body, soul and spirit. The spirit being of God according Gen 1:27.
We were created in God's own image. What is God that we should be like him? God is Spirit. His essence is not material, but a universal unseen presence. God is supernatural and omnipresent. He's not of this world, but is the creator of everything therein. Why did God create man? He could have done without us quite well, but we were created to worship God. That's his desire and he gave us a free will to so so such that we love him by choice and not coercion! We were given a spirit to allow us to commune with God on a level that soulless beasts cannot. As such, mankind is more than beasts, but sin causes man to act as beasts!
Our shape is our body. It's material and there is nothing in the body which is not found in the ground. Adam means "man" or "red clay". He was formed by God from the ground! Even skeptics admit this! Where else would mankind have originated? However, there was a "mold" for man. remembering that we were created in the image of God, it further states:
Genesis 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image..."To whom does "our" refer? The popular thought is that Jesus was created in the image of man when he was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the body of a virgin woman, but in actuality man was created in the image of Jesus! Who is Jesus? He's Immanuel (God with us)! He is the Son of God, the Son of Man and God! Adam was made from God. Jesus, God in the flesh, was the pattern. He is the second person of the "our" in Gen. 1:26.
John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 3 All things were made by him... 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us..."Since "The Word" is Jesus, he was with God in the beginning and all things were made by him it stands to reason that Gen. 1:26 truly means "And God said, Let us make man in the image of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit". That's akin to saying body (Jesus), soul or mind (God) and Spirit (Holy Spirit). Hence, we were created in the image of God and the Son of God (Jesus). It appears that God in his foreknowledge made us the same as he was to make Jesus!
The Lord said to Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee..."What's more, God knew at the creation what the appearance and substance of Jesus would be. He was a the same as Adam when he was formed from the clay! Not only do we have the appearance of Jesus, but we're equipped with his Spirit as well! This is not to say that sinners are Christlike in love, but that we were formed in his image! He provided a mechanism with which we can commune with him. It's the soul. The soul is the intermediary between the body and Spirit. When Paul said "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak", the soul is the decision-make and by Adam's nature is biased toward sin.
That's an excellent case for the sanctity of life; that we are set apart from the animal kingdom!
Many argue that abortion has always been around. That argument fails! Because cancer has always been with us doesn't make it desirable. Because war has always been here doesn't make war alright. But yes, mankind has always dealt with infanticide of which abortion is a kind:
Leviticus 20:4 "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."The worship of Molech was inclined toward sex. They had temple prostitutes. As a means of worship the idolaters sacrificed their infant into the fire of the idol of the god, Molech. It appeased him! Not only did God command it wrong to sacrifice "the seed" of the woman, but if any man allowed the sacrifice to happen, God cut him off ! He referred to it as "go a whoring" for those who act as the accomplice; the man condoning the death of the infant! "But", you say, "a fetus isn't a baby!". Only a fool would reject the medical fact that a fetus is a term used to describe a baby in utero. The offering of a pre-born baby to the altar of sexual desire is akin to sacrificing an infant to Molech. It's an abomination to God!
Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."This is written without exception! It doesn't infer the right to kill a person at any stage. It doesn't say "Thou shalt not kill a person who is fully developed." It says "not kill" without further mention. That's inferred to mean "Thou shalt not kill a human being! Period." Do you want to get more specific? Think on this:
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, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."Accidents happen when people struggle. If an abortion is induced, even in innocence, the woman's husband will name the punishment! If the abortion is caused by "any mischief" (on purpose) then the person causing the abortion is to forfeit his own life! Abortion happened than and was wrong and it's still wrong! Hippolytus, an early church father, (in A.D. 225) dealt with this issue:
[Calistus) even permitted women, if they were unmarried and burning up at an unsuitable time of life, or if they did not wish to lose their own dignity by a lawful marriage, to take a man of their own choosing as bedfellow, whether slave or free, and to regard such a one as a husband, though not lawfully married. For this reason women who were reputed to be believers began to take drugs to render themselves sterile, and to bind themselves tightly so as to expel what was being conceived, since they would not, on account of relatives and excessive wealth, want to have a child by a slave or by any insignificant person. See, then into what impiety that lawless one has proceeded, by teaching adultery and murder at the same time!"Calistus was Pope! He had the false teaching about sexuality, marriage, birth control and abortion. Hippolytus condemned him for this heresy! He spoke of sexual freedom as sinful because it's adultery and murder! Our early church father's rendering of abortion as murder is in line with the Bible's position. Life is sacrosanct and the destruction of life is murder!
Margaret Sanger, the pioneer for birth control and abortion, (founder of Planned Parenthood) would agree with Calistus. She was a pioneer for sexual freedom among women and a proponent of birth control to remove "undesirables" from the face of the earth:
“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving."This is the woman idolized by feminists! She not only preached for the freedom to fornicate, but the freedom to kill what is procreated! Her mentor must have been Calistus for they thought the same way! Furthermore, blacks, just as in her view" are the victims of genocide, and ironically blacks vote for candidates who are pro-abortion more than any others. Obama is even a proponent of black death! "Stupid is as stupid does"! Since Progressives are the ones in favor of abortion it stands to reason that Progressives favor black genocide, even unwittingly of their own race quite often! Sanger referred to blacks as undesirables! Who held the same views as Sanger?
“No gods, no masters. ”
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born."
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]”
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”
"The Third Reich had, true to their genocidal ethic, of course deemed that there was such thing as a life not worth living," (Wikipedia on the Hippocratic Oath)Yes, Hitler and Sanger both believed that there were some individuals whose life was not worth the living. They both were to be the judge and jury and those folks were minorities: Jews and blacks.
Planned Parenthood is funded as a tax exempt organization by your tax dollars, They are brought into schools via the Health Department. They teach your children sex education! Hitlerian people are in charge of brainwashing your children, yet you allow that to happen. We should all be compared to the apathetic German people who did the same! How pitiful we are! The next generation will think of abortion as a great means of sex selection, killing of the handicapped and even necessary to maintain beautiful bodies! How do I know? We're already to that point. Yes, "Jesus wept" (John 11:35). Yes, he wept because we are in rebellion! Just as the women of old tossed their infant into the belly of Molech into the fire, women today toss theirs into the same god; the sexual god; not this time Molech, but the "Goddess of Self". That's who Molech represented!
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