Falling away

So how is avoiding opposition to false science have anything to do with this? If you are anti-science, give up your automobile, your medical care, and all the other wonders modern science has given us.

 

FTR, I do believe that abortion is way too commonplace. I think late term abortion is a bad thing that should only be reserved for extreme cases, such as mental or physical well-being of the woman, to save her life, etc. That said, early term abortion and the use of Plan B should remain unrestricted.

In order to reduce abortion, sex education should be mandatory and contraceptives readily available to all who want them. Sex education includes abstinence as part of the program, but also the use of contraceptives, how they work, and how to avoid getting pregnant if one does not remain abstinent.

 

Please do not joke about the butchery of children. It is not a source for amusement.

The number of his posts had nothing to do with it. If he'd answered in your timetable, whatever that might be, it wouldn't matter if he posted once or five times.

Whether the unborn child was fathered by a rapist or not does not invalidate the value of his life. He or she is still a human being created in God's image, and aborting him or her is still murder. For that reason, the pregnant young woman/child should go through 9 months of discomfort. Her life will go on either way; the baby's life will go on only if the mother is inconvenienced--assuming she has this attitude. This pregnancy could just as easily turn out to be a great blessing to her, her family, even the world--who knows what God will accomplish through this new person.

When have I given my opinion and said it was Scripture? I maintain that Scripture speaks on the issues of abortion and the valid human worth of unborn children. And I presented some Scripture to back up that opinion. There is plenty more, as well. Nor do I expect "everyone to follow." I don't expect you to follow, nor am I leading. This position is the standard pro-life position of most conservative Christians including the SBC and other conservative branches of Baptists. I am not the originator of the pro-life position and do not lead it.

You are using the long-standing tradition of renaming what you want to devalue, in this case what has been called a child through the entire course of the history of man into a zygote or blastocyst. Fetus still has some use for this, but its effect has been reduced somewhat with overuse.

First, scientists and medical professionals are split on the issue of when life begins. Second, science doesn't understand gestation fully, much less consciousness, much less life.

Between science and Scripture, we know that a child, at various times in his or her development inside his or her mother's womb has:

human DNA
a beating human heart
measurably human brain waves
emotions, including joy
pain and reaction to it
dreams
the ability to move on its own
memories
thought
fear
contact with the Holy Spirit

Scripture teaches that God himself knits us together in the womb, and each child is made in the very image of God. During the final trimester, the child is growing in size more than developing new parts. During the second trimester, the child has a human heart, human brainwaves, feels pain, and reacts to stimuli. At 18 days after conception, the human heart is beating.

Please reconsider your position on this issue. God is busily at work inside a mother's womb, growing and fleshing out his most prized possession, that which He loves so much he could not let it die in sin; He had to go save it.

 

No!! They were the liberal party of the day, if i remember correctly.

 

Kind of hard to say that when the Democratic Party had nominated George McGovern for president just the year before.

 

You're twisting what I said. I simply said that we have legal abortion because of the decision of a heavily Republican Supreme Court. Look it up.

 

And once again, our buddy steaver uses loaded language...pro-murder?? Sheesh! And still, injecting opinion into scripture.

 

Since this thread is already past the 10-page limit, it will be closed no sooner than 2:00 a.m. ET by one of the Moderators. LE

 

Closed. LE