Abortion and the Christian
Many of us oppose abortion and many also don’t agree with it especially women since they think a woman ought to have a right to do whatever she wants to with her own body.
This is a very sensitive and emotional issue today, we oppose abortion (except in rare situations such as when the mother’s life is clearly in danger and abortion becomes the lesser of two evils) the central question we have to face is this; is the little life within the womb just a piece of human tissue, or is it more than that- a human being- even when it is very young and could not sustain itself outside the womb? It is at this point that emotions tend to get in the way and people attempt to answer the question in a way that will agree with their own desires. But we need to look at this as reasonably as possible.
As a Christian our ultimate standard is the bible, because we believe it to be God’s word which reveals absolute truth to us. We may have opinions about various things, but if God has spoken on a subject then we must submit our opinions to the rule of scripture. Does the bible, therefore, give any answer to the question of whether or not a fetus is a human being in God’s eyes? Yes it does, giving us several illustrations to indicate that a fetus is human being. God told Jeremiah, for instance, “before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). Or take the case of John the Baptist. When Mary, the mother of Jesus, became pregnant by the Holy Spirit she went immediately to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. John’s mother declared, “As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (Luke 1:44) – implying that the fetus was fully human.
This is a very sensitive and emotional issue today, we oppose abortion (except in rare situations such as when the mother’s life is clearly in danger and abortion becomes the lesser of two evils) the central question we have to face is this; is the little life within the womb just a piece of human tissue, or is it more than that- a human being- even when it is very young and could not sustain itself outside the womb? It is at this point that emotions tend to get in the way and people attempt to answer the question in a way that will agree with their own desires. But we need to look at this as reasonably as possible.
As a Christian our ultimate standard is the bible, because we believe it to be God’s word which reveals absolute truth to us. We may have opinions about various things, but if God has spoken on a subject then we must submit our opinions to the rule of scripture. Does the bible, therefore, give any answer to the question of whether or not a fetus is a human being in God’s eyes? Yes it does, giving us several illustrations to indicate that a fetus is human being. God told Jeremiah, for instance, “before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). Or take the case of John the Baptist. When Mary, the mother of Jesus, became pregnant by the Holy Spirit she went immediately to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. John’s mother declared, “As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy” (Luke 1:44) – implying that the fetus was fully human.
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