With an upcoming presidential election, and a continuing demand for the right to kill babies who are alive, though unborn, the above question is perhaps more relevant now than ever.
In my estimation, the abortion holocaust is one of the most important issues in this election. Moral issues should always be at the top of our list when choosing leaders. Psalm 14:34 teaches us that righteousness exalts a nation but that sin is a disgrace to any people.
Is there a sin greater or more disgraceful than killing babies? History teaches us that the ancient Romans would put an unwanted baby on their doorstep to be claimed by any who might want it. What do you suppose the outcry would be today if prominent Americans lobbied for the right of parents to do that? No, of course we are superior to the Romans in their barbarity. We kill our unwanted children before they are born.
On at least two occasions, Jesus used a child to illustrate the qualities of character we must have before we can inherit the kingdom of God (Matthew 18:1-6 & 19:13-15). What do you believe Jesus thinks of our practice of abortion?
Have you read Proverbs 6:16-17?
There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him; haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood…
Can you imagine any blood to be more innocent that that of an unborn child?
According to Psalm 139, all indications are that God knows us as a person before we are born into this world. Exactly when we become 'persons' in His eyes He does not reveal, but Jeremiah 1:5 informs us of the fact that God knew Jeremiah even before He formed him in the womb.
Even, from a simply scientific point of view, we know that life begins at conception. When the tiny human sperm (about 40 microns long, or 40 thousandths of a millimeter) penetrates a human egg (about 60 microns in diameter) there is conception. If the sperm and the egg are both human, guess what? The life conceived can only be human. Tiny? Yes. Life? Yes. Human life? Of course.
Consider that the DNA imprinted or coded into these microscopic human entities (sperm & egg) is in fact human DNA. All of the blueprints and necessary design information to make each individual organ and part of your person is right there at conception. This uniquely human information has been passed down from your ancestors on both your mother’s and father’s sides of the family, in a line which extends all the way back to creation.
Your conception is a family history lesson recorded in nanotechnology! From the point of conception on, there will be no additional engineering information added anywhere along the way in your development. All of the necessary information to build you, detail by detail, into what you will be (physically speaking) is present at conception.
I know of no scientist who would argue this point unless influenced by bogus politics to find justification for abortion, which of course puts an end to a human life that was in fact, begun at conception.
From a purely scientific viewpoint, abortion necessarily ends a life conceived. Yet, this is what many of our nation’s leaders claim to be the right of all women. In so doing they fly in the face of God.
How could we ever elect such leaders when one of the first things God tells us about human life is that He personally made it, in both male and female forms, in His image, Genesis 1:26-27? Jesus told us that He came that we might have life, and have it abundantly, John 10:10. How can the practice of abortion have any part in His gift of abundant life?
The psalmist wrote, 'Blessed is the nation who's God is the Lord', Psalm 33:12. But how can we claim Jesus or His Father or His Holy Spirit as our nation's Lord when so many of our people practice and support the shedding of so much innocent blood? How can God be our Lord when we continue to choose leaders who clamor for the right to kill the unborn?
Marty Kessler