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Abortion has slowly crept into the world of religion promoted as both a
Biblically backed and logically moral act. Entire denominations now embrace
abortion as an appropriate choice both in the eyes of God and their church
leaders. More liberal denominations support abortion as morally correct in all
situations while others like to limit their moral blessing to abortions done
only before the point of viability. In either case, the decision to
illegitimately claim God’s blessing on the act of abortion is both immoral and
heretical.
The ultimate authority and word from God is found in the Bible and is used by
both sides to claim the moral high ground. In articles dotting the Internet
there are people claiming the verses popular to the Christian Pro-Life movement
such as Jeremiah 1:4-5 and Psalm 139:13-16 are either taken out of context or
actually support the Pro-Abortion stance. It is the smaller detail of the many
verses that the critics will miss; that God’s view of life starts well before
birth.
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my
mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your
works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of
the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were
written in Your book before one of them came to be (Psalm 139:13-16).
Yet You brought me out of the womb; You made me trust in You
even at my mother's breast. From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother's
womb You have been my God (Psalm 22:9-10).
Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the
same one form us both within our mothers? (Job 31:15).
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are
His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture (Psalm 100:3)
This is what the LORD says--He who made you, who formed you
in the womb, and who will help you … (Isaiah 44:2).
And now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his
servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to himself, for I am
honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength (Isaiah
49:5).
The word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Before I formed you
in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as
a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:4-5)
In these verses it is brought directly to the reader that God’s view of life
begins before birth. Psalm 22 shows the beginning of our relationship starting
before birth. In Psalm 139 the verses specifically show our relationship with
God before birth as He formed us and had already planned our days to come.
Jeremiah 1 again emphasizes God’s relationship with an unborn child and Isaiah
44 comforts with the picture of God’s faithfulness during the formation before
birth. God does not look at our lives from birth to death; He views us from
conception onward.
These passages certainly contain separate contexts and were meant for
differing audiences, but it is with their diversity that the strength of the
argument is made. There is not just one verse in one situation that mentions
God’s view of human life to include the before birth stage; there are many
verses in many situations. The Pro-Life view stands directly on the Truth as
shown through the Bible; God’s view is that life begins before birth.
We do not need to decide when life begins, but accept what God has already
shown, that life begins before birth. It is impossible to take a life before
birth and be justified. The beliefs and ethics of God are not situational and do
not provide the exceptions. Life always begins before birth in the eyes of God
even if rape, incest, or other sinful acts conceived the baby. It is only as our
human self-centeredness grows that we look for exceptions or man-based rules to
govern when we can take a life of a baby.
Christians must understand that supporting abortion is opposed to God and his
righteousness. We must not allow the heretical views of the world a place to
seep into our individual beliefs or the churches that we attend. Taking a stand
on abortion in your church is easy; you have God and the Bible on your side.
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