All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.
2 Timothy 3:16
Christ is the visible image of
the invisible God. He existed before
anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God
created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things
we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen
world. Everything was created through
him and for him. He existed before anything else, and
he holds all creation together. Colossians 1:15-17
I’m aware, with the next few sentences, I will offend
some people, as well as get a few ”amens”.
However, like Martin Luther, when asked to recant his condemnation of a
church gone dark into selfishness and spiritual death: I cannot and will
not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. So, here goes: Abortion is a wrong choice. --- Click! --- Half
of those who heard that just tuned-out.
For those with an open mind still reading/listening, I did not make a
sexist/mysogynistic statement. I didn’t
even mention sex or gender. Abortion is
a medical procedure
assaulting a living being inside a woman’s body with the intent to cause
death.
My reason for writing this is to address the faulty
reasoning for making the decision to abort a living being. The primary case that has been made for
abortion as an acceptable choice has always appealed to women’s rights. Certainly that
presupposes only the rights of the woman carrying the unborn child, and not the
rights of the child within the womb. My
argument is not against women, or rights, however, rather a contention with unsound
logic.
In yesterday’s devotion I held up two principles –
Scripture is authoritive in matters of my life, and Jesus is the only arbiter
of my actions, because He is the center of Scripture’s content and purpose of
Almighty God. With that as my marching orders, the only honest and objective conclusion about
abortion is that it violates every tenet of Scripture’s profile of life.
The point is, if God thought enough to create us in the
first place, and clearly stated that every life is valuable – even the sparrows
– as much as even the hairs on your head, arbitrarily snuffing-out a life for
the sake of convenience is wrong.
The hermeneutical principles of interpreting Scripture
demand that no Scripture contradicts another Scripture. There may be contrasts, such as describing
one side of an elephant, then turning to the trunk or tail with a differing
description, but the elephant is one cohesive being. And the elephant of Scripture is God’s
cohesive treatise on life. All else,
save protecting life, fails…eternally!
Note the contrast in Jesus’ own words, from the passage where He
describes himself as the Good Shepherd, and
what God’s purpose was for sending Him:
The thief’s purpose is to steal
and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying
life. John 10:10
If life is the supreme good which God was engifting to
all humanity, the enemy’s purpose…in this discussion, abortion, is a
declaration of war.
For You Today
You chew on that as
you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!
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