Is God Pro-Choice?
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I. Introduction
I. Introduction
As we continue through the summer, we want to highlight some hot button issues that Christians face in our societies. Last week in “The Heavens Declare” we touched on the Bible’s teaching us about the fact that God has revealed and continues to reveal Himself in natural revelation as well as the special revelation of His Word, thereby refuting the notion of cosmological evolution.
As we continue through the summer, we want to highlight some hot button issues that Christians face in our societies. Last week in “The Heavens Declare” we touched on the Bible’s teaching us about the fact that God has revealed and continues to reveal Himself in natural revelation as well as the special revelation of His Word, thereby refuting the notion of cosmological evolution.
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that effectively legalized abortion nationwide, here is a look at the most recent available data about abortion from sources other than public opinion surveys. (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/)
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that effectively legalized abortion nationwide, here is a look at the most recent available data about abortion from sources other than public opinion surveys. (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/)
The Center for Decease Control (CDC) reported a yearly national total of 629, 898 abortions in the US.
The Center for Decease Control (CDC) reported a yearly national total of 629, 898 abortions in the US.
Guttmacher Institute who contacts every known provider of abortions for its numbers, reported in 2020 that there were 930, 160 abortions nationwide up from 916, 460 in 2019.
Guttmacher Institute who contacts every known provider of abortions for its numbers, reported in 2020 that there were 930, 160 abortions nationwide up from 916, 460 in 2019.
Today we want to look primarily at another one of David’s Psalms in order to ascertain whether God is pro-choice or pro-life or more specifically today, we want to ascertain when human life really begins as that is the real debate at the heart of the issue. It is a sensitive and often times emotional subject, but one that must be thoughtfully considered by every Christian especially and every critically thinking human being.
Today we want to look primarily at another one of David’s Psalms in order to ascertain whether God is pro-choice or pro-life or more specifically today, we want to ascertain when human life really begins as that is the real debate at the heart of the issue. It is a sensitive and often times emotional subject, but one that must be thoughtfully considered by every Christian especially and every critically thinking human being.
II. Just the Facts
II. Just the Facts
A. Man was created in the image of God
A. Man was created in the image of God
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
B. All other human beings are subsequently “conceived” from that same pattern God created in the beginning.
B. All other human beings are subsequently “conceived” from that same pattern God created in the beginning.
1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
1. Conception means that a woman’s egg is fertilized with a man’s sperm.
1. Conception means that a woman’s egg is fertilized with a man’s sperm.
2. Typically just 6-9 days later, the fertilized egg is implanted in the woman’s uterus
2. Typically just 6-9 days later, the fertilized egg is implanted in the woman’s uterus
One of the ways that the scientific/medical establishment has given justification to the practice of abortion is to redefine conception. Following Dr. Bent Boving’s advice in 1959 at a Planned Parenthood symposium, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1965 adopted the definition that “conception is the implantation of an ovum”
One of the ways that the scientific/medical establishment has given justification to the practice of abortion is to redefine conception. Following Dr. Bent Boving’s advice in 1959 at a Planned Parenthood symposium, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1965 adopted the definition that “conception is the implantation of an ovum”
Even Pro-Life advocates such as Dr. Bernard Nathanson argues that at the moment of implantation the unborn "establishes its presence to the rest of us by transmitting its own signals—by producing hormones—approximately one week after fertilization and as soon as it burrows into the alien uterine wall." (https://christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life014.html)
Even Pro-Life advocates such as Dr. Bernard Nathanson argues that at the moment of implantation the unborn "establishes its presence to the rest of us by transmitting its own signals—by producing hormones—approximately one week after fertilization and as soon as it burrows into the alien uterine wall." (https://christiananswers.net/q-sum/q-life014.html)
Further, the development cycle names given to the fertilized egg can often obscure the fact that conception produces another human man/woman such as Zygote and Embryo and Fetus.
Further, the development cycle names given to the fertilized egg can often obscure the fact that conception produces another human man/woman such as Zygote and Embryo and Fetus.
III. God’s perspective
III. God’s perspective
A. God gives personhood, not man!
A. God gives personhood, not man!
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
B. Set apart before birth!
B. Set apart before birth!
4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
C. Human life begins at fertilization.
C. Human life begins at fertilization.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
D. Human Persons at every stage!
D. Human Persons at every stage!
39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah,
40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
E. Priceless Life in the womb
E. Priceless Life in the womb
22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,