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January 15, 2011
Abortion – Shedding Innocent Blood
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The Bible condemns the hands that shed innocent blood — those who commit murder — who offered the children to idols, and in our age, those who abort the most innocent of all, the unborn (Prov. 6:12-19). Since the slaughter of the unborn was legalized in 1973, almost 40 million innocent babies have had their lives snuffed out.
The Preciousness of Children
Genesis 1:26 tells us that man is created in the image of God, not physically, for God has no physical form, but spiritually, possessing the intellectual faculty, sense of conscience and eternality that allow him to choose right or wrong. For this reason, murder was outlawed from the days of Cain, through the Law of Moses and into the law of Christ. Killing in time of war and for capital punishment under strict limitations was excluded from the prohibition, but did not confuse the principle: innocent life was worthy of every protection.
We can hear the preciousness of life in the cries of Hannah, who sought a son with the depths of her soul poured out in answered prayer. We can hear the hope of the child even in the laugh of Sarah who was told she would bear a son in her old age and then did.
Children are a heritage of the Lord (Psalm 127:3) and a blessing (Psalm 128:3). Contrary to the abortion lobby’s warped logic, children are people from the moment of fertilization. These are not alien life forms, lifeless tissue masses or malignant tumors; they are human beings in the earliest stages of development, just as we once were.
Life Begins at Conception
Conception is not really all that complicated. The male fertilizes an egg within the female and two equally necessary substances are combined to form one new unit, which is human life and nothing else. Many attempt to place life, human life & personhood, at a later date for political or moral reasons. This is sophistry - just playing with words for their own purposes. Sadly, some Christians have erroneously picked up these same arguments.
The Bible recognizes human life in the mother’s belly (Psalm 139:13-16). David writes by inspiration of a time in which he certainly could remember nothing by himself, a time in which he dwelt microscopically and then grew inside of his mother. Yet God had perfect knowledge and even foreknowledge about him.
Imagine that one moment; God is beholding a future king and deliverer for his people. Yet some see simply a fertilized egg... not a person. They think that it is not a human being yet, so they can pop a pill to flush it out or go to the "doctor" who will remove this helpless child. This is just what abortion does to countless helpless persons when man presumes play god.
Testimony of Dr. Luke
One of our New Testament writers was himself a physician, the beloved Luke who wrote a gospel record and an account of some of the apostles’ work. In referring to the unborn John and Jesus, Luke uses the same term “brephos” as he does to refer to them after their births. He does not diminish their humanity by calling them fetuses and suggesting that life has not begun yet while inside the belly or abdomen (Luke 1:41).
Disregard For Human Life
The Old Testament exposes an idolatrous practice that fits the description of shedding innocent blood, in which mothers were persuaded, often by force, to sacrifice their children to the god, Molech, in flames of fire.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia reveals this: “The image of Moloch was a human figure with a bull’s head and outreached arms, ready to receive the children destined for sacrifice. The image of metal was heated red-hot by a fire kindled within, and the children laid on its arms rolled off into the fiery pit below. In order to drown the cries of the victims, flutes were played and drums were beaten; and mothers stood by without tears or sobs, to give the impression of the voluntary character of their offering” (Volume III, Page 2075). God condemned this practice vociferously, destroying the Canaanites for it. Even so, the Israelites adopted it.
What idols do men and women serve today that lures them into human sacrifice? Money? Convenience? Physical vanity? Pride? Friends beware! The adversary seeks to delude and destroy!
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