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10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Our text here in John would indicate that our God is Pro-Life. This the very reason for Jesus’ appearance.
The thief (Devil) has come come to steal kill and destroy, but there is good news. Jesus has come that we might have life.
Before we can establish a case for why adoration is wrong we must first establish what life is and when it begins.
41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 “And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me? 44 “For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.
Notice John, leaps in the belly of Elizabeth. This action prove there life on the inside of Elizabeth’s womb.
Both the Bible (Luke’s account) and Elizabeth call the unborn child a baby.
The word in the Greek used for baby here js, brephos which means, baby, infant. A baby, either newly born or not yet born.
The same word is used in Luke 2:12
12 “This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
The indication in the Greek is that an unborn baby is just as much alive as a born baby.
44 “For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.
According to healthychildren.org/
“At around 18 weeks of pregnancy, your unborn baby will start being able to hear sounds in your body like your heartbeat. At 27 to 29 weeks (6 to 7 months), they can hear some sounds outside your body too, like your voice.”
Once again the science prove that Bible right.
The child response to hearing with movement. This speak of personality and conscious.
Argument for abortion
1. “It’s” a Fetus, therefore “it’s” not a baby.
1. “It’s” a Fetus, therefore “it’s” not a baby.
According to the encyclopedia, a fetus is “an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.”
Notice baby is in the definition.
Webster defines fetus as, an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind. Specifically : a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth.
Developing, moving, growing, meaning it is a life.
David said.
13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Life begins at conception.
Wayne Grudem says, “Here also he speaks of himself as a distinct person ("me") when he was in his mother's womb. The Hebrew word translated as "inward parts" is kilyah, literally kidney: but in contexts such as this it refers to the innermost parts of a person, including his deepest inward thoughts and emotions.
“You wove me,” speak of conception and being the source of life.
Wrong Biblical argument that a fetus is not a baby.
Wrong Biblical argument that a fetus is not a baby.
Life is connected to breath and a fetus can not breath, they are not human beings.
7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Norman Geisler says this, “Since breathing does not occur until birth, it is argued that the unborn are not human until they are born.”
14 “If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, 15 All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust.
Norman adds, “Here again, since life is connected with breath, it is reasoned that there is no human life before breath.”
Why that’s stupid
Why that’s stupid
Norman Geisler says, Breath is not the beginning of humanness. There are several reasons for not taking breath as the point of human life's beginning. If breath is equated with the presence of human life, then the loss of breath would mean the loss of humanness. But the Bible is clear that human beings continue to exist in another realm after they stop breathing.
6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight— 8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained;
The Bible speaks of life in the womb even before birth.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
Brought forth and conceived. The inside of the womb is the place life begins, not outside of it.
2. Abortion reduces crime.
2. Abortion reduces crime.
According to a study co-written by Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, PhD, and published in the peer-reviewed Quarterly Journal of Economics, “legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions.”
He concludes that around 18 years after abortion was legalized, crime rates began to drop abruptly, and crime rates dropped earlier in states that allowed abortion earlier.
Because Steven says, “women who have abortions are those most at risk to give birth to children who would engage in criminal activity,” and women who had control over the timing of childbearing were more likely to raise children in optimal environments, crime is reduced when there is access to legal abortion.
You know what else happen “around” 18 yeas after Roe vs. Wade? The 1994 Violent Crime Control Law and Enforcement Act.
The largest crime bill in the history of our country.
Wrong Biblical argument for abortion reduces crime.
Wrong Biblical argument for abortion reduces crime.
24 “The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”
The argument here is the violence against Jesus would have never been committed if Judas would not have been born.
Some make this argument about hitler as well.
I want to quote Conservative radio host and Commentator, Ben Shapiro when he spoke at March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. in 2019
“And the truth is that no pro-life person on earth would kill baby Hitler, because baby Hitler wasn’t Hitler, adult Hitler was Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby," he continued. "What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler is take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler’s house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler, right? That’s the idea.”
Yes, betrayal was prophesied about (in Jesus case,) but it didn’t have to be the way of Judas.
If would have been better for Judas not to betray Jesus, but he did can the consequence are so, that it would have been better that “he had not been born.”
Wayne Grudem makes this point about the loss of million od valuable people.
“Another argument against abortion is the incalculable loss to the nation from the deaths of more than 1 million babies per year. Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, nearly 60 million children have been put to death through abortion.'* Some of those would now be 44 years old. Others would be 43, 42, and so on, down to approximately 1 million of them who would be in their first year of life. Many of them by now would be scientists and doctors, engineers and business leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, electricians, poets, carpenters, musicians, farmers, sports figures, political leaders, and so forth. Many of them would be mothers taking care of their own children and fathers helping to raise their children. They would be contributing to society in all areas of life-but they never had the chance to be born. They never had the chance to contribute in a positive way to this world.”
3. Pro- Choice Free Will
3. Pro- Choice Free Will
In this argument people will say it is the choice of the mother and people have a right ti make decisions for themsevles and choose when and how they they bare children.
It’s my body, my choice.
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissenting opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) that undue restrictions on abortion infringe upon “a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature.”
Wrong Biblical argument for choice.
Wrong Biblical argument for choice.
God give us free will to choose.
I heard this stripture used as a pro choise defence,
15 “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Why this is stupid. God may give us the ability to choose, that doesn”t mean our choice are alway correct.
Remember,
13 “You shall not murder.
That baby in conceived of God and therefore created in His image.
6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.
EVERY life is valuable in the eyes of God and we must protect it.
Look at how the law Moses deals with those how threaten the life of health of a pregnant mother.
22 “If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. 23 “But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Wayne Grudem says, “This means that God established for Israel a law code that placed a higher value on protecting the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn child than the life of anyone eles in Israelite society. Far from treating the death of an unborn child as less significant tan the death of others in society, this law treated the death of an unborn child or its mother as more significant and therefore worthy of more severe punishment. And the law did not make any distinction about the number of months the woman had been pregnant. Presumably it applied from a very early stage in pregnancy, whenever it could be known that the injury inflicted by the men who were fighting caused the death of the unborn child or children.
He also adds, “Moreover, this law applied to a case of accidental killing of an unborn child. But if accidental killing of an unborn child is so serious in God's eyes, then surely intentional killing of an unborn child must be an even worse crime.”
