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SUBJECT: Abortion

 

QUESTION:  What is your logical view of abortion based on your knowledge of God?

 

ANSWER:

 

Before we submit to you extensive text on the Biblical view of Abortion, we wanted to offer a logical view of abortion based on our knowledge of God.

 

The subject of abortion is probably the most volatile subject on the planet, because it involves the most essential elements of both Human Nature and Godly Nature.  We have heard the endless arguments of man that resolve nothing but causing anger, hate and violence.

 

Our mission in presenting any of our views is NOT to convince you of anything or to compel you to avoid having an abortion performed.  Our mission here is to simply tell you what we believe.  Maybe it will give you a perspective or something to think and meditate about.  Your final decision is between you and your conscious and God.

 

WHAT WE KNOW AND BELIEVE

1.      God is the creator of all things including the Human body and the sex organs.

2.      God designed the sex organs to produce offspring.

3.      God designed the sex act as a means of expressing love one for another; husband for wife, wife for husband.

4.      God made man in His image.

5.      Offspring (infants) are born in the image of God.

6.      Mankind is responsible for all parts of his or her bodies including the sex organs.

7.      An egg cannot be fertilized unless a man and woman engage in sexual intercourse which shall be defined as male sperm being introduced to a female egg by any means, manual or artificial.   We will discuss rape later.

8.      If a fertilized egg is left alone and all things proceed as designed by God, this fertilized egg will result in a live birth.

9.      If there is no fertilized egg existing in a particular woman, there is no need to discuss abortion.

10.   Abortion has only one mission in its design: to remove and/or destroy a fertilized egg or otherwise prevent it from maturing to a live birth.

11.   Sin entered the world by man. Romans 5:21

12.   Man sins and each individual man and woman is responsible for their individual sins.

13.   Man collectively is responsible for ALL sins.

14.   Many sins involve man sinning against man. 

15.   In a sin where a person sins against another person BOTH are responsible, perpetrator and victim.  I know this sounds harsh but all of mankind is responsible for sin and all of mankind is responsible for the sins they do to each other.  We all stand guilty for the sins in the world.  God punishes whole groups and whole nations for their collective sins.

 

WHAT WE CONCLUDE AND BELIEVE

1.       Regardless of the means, mankind is responsible for every egg that is fertilized.  This includes rape.  Crime is national and world sin more than an individual sin.  Sin itself is national and a world responsibility.  We cannot terminate a birth of a human being because of our collective sins.

2.       Because of the design of reproduction and the fact that a fertilized egg left alone results in a live birth, LIFE BEGINS AT THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION.  One second short of conception and there is no fertilized egg and therefore no need of abortion or even the need to discuss it.  One second after conception and you have a live birth process beginning. 

3.       Mankind has no justification before God to state that a fertilized egg is something less than human.  A fertilized human egg has only one purpose of design.  The design is God’s.

4.       Therefore mankind has no justification to abort a fertilized egg at anytime.

5.       Abortion is an invention of man and not God.  Mankind uses it for selfish purposes.

6.       God comes before any so-called rights of individuals.

7.       To destroy a human being from conception to adult is to destroy something in the image of God; a creation of God.  Therefore, to destroy a human is a direct attack on God.

8.       No individual, no government, no nation and no collective of nations or men and women have any right to abort something that belongs to and was designed by God.

 

Having stated all this by way of introduction, we will proceed to the Biblical articles against abortion.

 
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