Christian Views On Abortion

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A Love And Romance Gift Book [by a Christian author]

Fact: Abortion will not solve any relationship problems you now have nor will it hold together an unstable relationship. It is very common for relationships to break up shortly after an abortion.

Fact: Abortion doesn’t make babies “go away.” It kills them. If that bothers you, you’ll feel much worse later.

Fact: Immediately after an abortion, a woman will usually feel relieved. However, that is not the end of the story. What is over is the baby’s life. At some future point, the mother will become aware of this and then she may have to deal with grief and guilt.

Fact: Abortion is forever. You can’t ever get your baby back.

Case Histories:

1. Mary, thirty years old and pregnant, had a chronic physical illness and strongly wanted an abortion. After the abortion she experienced guilt and self-hatred and called it "the least desirable solution".

2. Joan was seventeen when she had her abortion. She seemed to cope well. But during her second pregnancy she "heard" babies crying at night and the pain came back to her.

3. Sixteen year old Alisha had an abortion while high on drugs. A year later she came to feel that no one could love her because she had "killed her baby". Her solution was to get pregnant again, although she didn't know which boyfriend would be the father.

These cases are taken from psychiatrists' casebooks and crisis intervention hotline logs. The names are fictitious: the problems are real

Abortion Defined: [Jer. 20:17] Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

[Jer. 20:8-18] 8. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10. For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 11. But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12. But, O Lord of hosts, that TRIEST the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13. Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. 14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17. Because he {God} slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. 18. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Questions That Demands Answers:

1. What elevates or sets the human life apart from all other creatures? [Gen. 9:5-6] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

· Note that God requires the life of the animals for the life of man.

o That rules out the theory of man being a type of animal.

o That rules out the theory of man evolving from the animals.

o Even today in most countries, especially in the United States, when an animal bites a human or takes the life of a human, the authorities come in and takes the life of that animal… WHY?

o [Romans1:19-20] 19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

o [Psalms 19:1-3] 1. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

· Most importantly, God requires the life of the human beings for the life of man.

o And the answer given is because man was made in the image of God.

o Nothing is said here about man being the higher animal, God sets man apart and distinct from the animals.

· This takes us right into the realm of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT for taking a human life.

· Incase you were asking if the Bible supports CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, the answer is YES, IT DOES!

· God gave the government the power to take revenge for evil on earth, not just anyone [Rom. 13:1-4] 1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. 3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, A REVENGER to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

2. How interested is God in the unborn?

He forms the child in the womb

 [Isa. 44:24] Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

The Lord both calls from the womb and makes reference to the child in the womb before birth

 [Isa. 49:1] Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

The Lord both knows of your existence in the womb and sanctifies or set you apart in the womb

 [Jeremiah 1:5] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

God is the designer of the structure of the human in the womb

 [Job 31:15] Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

 [Job 10:8-11] Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

In Gen. 1:1, the Bible used the word create or the Hebrew word arb Bara' (baw-raw') which means to create something out of nothing. “1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

· The use of the word Bara’ is relatively consistent throughout Gen. 1.in relation to God’s creation.

· The same word is used in relation to Him creating mankind in Gen. 1:27 “27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

In Gen. 2:7, the Bible used the Hebrew word Yatsar (yaw-tsar') which means to form, fashion or frame. “7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

· This is the same word Isa. 44:24 and Jer. 1:5 in relation to the unborn child.