The sixth commandment says “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”. This means you may not touch any living being with the intention of doing them harm. You may not harm any living being with the intention of ending its life.
One of the biggest questions about abortion today is how long is the “thing” inside the woman a “fetus” before it becomes a baby. A few years ago, we did not have the technology to enable a baby five months early to live. However, now in the year 2011 there have been a few cases of babies with paper thin skin, and a body only slightly bigger than a dollar bill, survive a premature birth. Technology has allowed us to see that a “fetus” is alive and breathing after only a couple of months, maybe less, in the womb of a mother. Technology has also shown us that this “fetus” can live outside of the womb as an individual entity.
Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him...”
God created human beings in the perfect image of Himself. God creates human beings in the womb of a mother, in the image of Himself. When we were created, we were created with innocence, an undying love for God, and the perfection of His image. Adam and Eve were innocent. They were without flaw, and without sin. They were perfect. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they became subject to sin. They were no longer innocent. They had an understanding of right and wrong, and were no longer perfect. Because of this, they could no longer be with God, for where sin is, God cannot be.
After eating the fruit, all humans were cast out of the Garden. Both man and woman walked out of the Garden in sorrow, now bearing the toils of sin, and the pain of understanding. Even though God cast us out of the Garden, we are still made in His image. We are still part of His reflection, though now marred with sin. However, a baby is His perfect reflection. A baby is innocent and does not know good from evil, just as we were when God created man.
Will you consider the life of the thing inside you? Will you think about the innocence you are about to dismember? Will you consider the consequence of the ending being inside you, and the dangers it brings to yourself, before you commit a murder and a double sin? If technology continues to progress in the way it has, I wonder just how long it will take for our society and government to see that “a person's a person, no matter how small”. (Dr. Suess)
what are YOUR views of abortion? How does abortion agree, or disagree with the Bible, in your mind?
ReplyDeletePost a comment! I'd like to see what other people are think about abortion, and it's moral-ness.
Well what if the baby grows up to be an evil dictator. I think the people are really trying to protect us from evil dictators by killing them before they become a problem. I read an article once that claimed that evil dictators like hitler were once babies that weren't aborted. It sounded pretty convincing. So I think since we don't have a time machine yet we cant tell which baby is going to grow up to be an evil dictator and whos not, so their solution is to kill as many as they possilbly can.
ReplyDelete(Editors note: The preceding does not accuarately represent the ideas of Mr. Ben (the writer) in the least and is only an effort to stay in character with his blog persona whos trademark is having illogical views on life. Sorry for your annoyance)
hmm, that is an interesting thought. Very intruiging. But, something that I beleive is that, killing is wrong, and when we do abortions we're killing a life. Even if it is not acknowledged as a life by most people, when we draw our thoughts all the way to the begging you can come to this conclusion: "Life starts at two points, creation, and conception."
ReplyDeleteSo I have my qualms about it, but I'm interested in reading the sight that you mentioned, so I can draw my own conclusions! ^_^ thank you for your input! I hope I did not offend you in anything I said. :)
Hey Alex I was rereading what you said, and this thought popped into my mind.
ReplyDeleteMost babies are aborted to get the mom out of trouble. They are either teenage mom's, or unmarried women, who have abortions. And so it's really not for the good of anything when a baby is aborted. It's just so the mom can have a normal life, without a child. what do you think about that?