ABORTION
IS ALWAYS MURDER, EVEN
IN
CASES OF RAPE AND INCEST
HOLY
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THOSE
WHO SUPPORT ABORTION HAVE NO HOPE FOR SALVATION
AND
WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL – END OF STORY
Is
it a sin to abort when the pregnancy is the result of rape? Yes, it is!
Abortion
intentionally ends the life of an innocent living human being.
Exodus
20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 clearly command: “You shall not murder.”
Killing
an innocent unborn child after rape through the premeditated act of abortion
fits
the definition of murder: “You have condemned and murdered the innocent one,
who
was not opposing you.” — James 5:6 Punish rapists, not
babies.
As
with any other sin, there is accountability for the shedding of innocent blood.
Genesis
9:5,6 warns:
“And
from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for
the
life
of another human being. Whoever sheds human blood, by humans
shall
their
blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.”
Just
do
a Bible search of “innocent blood,” and you’ll see a plethora
of
Scripture
verses
1.
Is abortion murder?
Yes.
This is critical to know the answer to this question when
being
asked
for biblical advice on whether to abort.
Abortion
always involves bloodshed — babies do not just magically
disappear.
No woman takes a pill and the baby just vanishes into thin
air.
And the unborn baby is always innocent.
Consider
Exodus 21:22-25, which is the first place in the Bible
where
the
law of “an eye for an eye” is declared. This passage
demonstrates
the
seriousness with which God takes the injury to a pregnant woman
or
her
unborn child: “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman
and
she
gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the
offender
must
be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court
allows.
But
if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye
for
eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn,
wound
for
wound, bruise for bruise.” I’ve seen liberal theologians
actually
argue
that the verse only pertains to harm to the woman, but
this
standard
necessarily includes harm to the unborn child, or the
verse
would
not be talking about a pregnant woman! The injury or death to
the
unborn
child is what’s critical here.
In
Amos 1:13, God says that for Ammon’s sins, He “will not
relent.
Because
he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead.” So it’s clear
that
God
expressly counts the ripping open of pregnant women as a sin.
That’s
exactly
what abortion is. Again, the fact that the women are pregnant
is
relevant
— not because of her autonomy, but because of the harm to
her
unborn
child.
Abortion
involves the killing of one’s own children and is just
another
form
of child-sacrifice. Making the rape exception to your
pro-life
views
is modern-day child sacrifice. Look at Psalm 106:37-38:
“They
sacrificed
their sons and their daughters to false gods. They shed
innocent
blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they
sacrificed
to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by
their
blood.”
The child conceived out of rape is still the rape survivor
mother’s
own son or daughter — innocent blood.
I
shudder when I read Jeremiah 20:17, “For he did not kill me in
the
womb,
with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.”
Abortion
turns
a mother’s womb into a grave.
2.
But what about in cases of rape?
The
Bible is clear that only the rapist is to be punished for the
rape:
“But
if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman
pledged
to
be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall
die.”
—
Deuteronomy 22:25
However,
it’s estimated that, in the United States, only 1% of
rapists
are
ever convicted for the crime of rape. According to the U.S.
Supreme
Court
cases of Coker v Georgia and Kennedy v Louisiana, rapists and
even
child
molesters don’t deserve the death penalty — that it’s “cruel
and
unusual
punishment.” So how could the innocent child conceived out
of
that
rape deserve the death penalty?
Proverbs
17:15 warns: “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the
innocent—
the Lord detests them both.” And Proverbs 18:5 tell us: “It
is
not
good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent
of
justice,”
which is what the Supreme Court has done, along with every
law
passed
banning or regulating abortion with a rape exception
included.
1
Kings 8:32 and 2 Chronicles 6:23 both say: “Judge between
your
servants,
condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what
they
have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them
in
accordance
with their innocence.” The rapist is guilty, while the
child
is
innocent, yet there are some clergy and other Christians who
are
prepared
to allow the innocent child to be put to death, but not the
rapist!
In
Deuteronomy 24:16 and 2 Kings 14: 6, God makes it very
clear:
“Parents
are not to be put to death for their children, nor children
put
to
death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.” As a
child
conceived
in rape, God’s word affirms that I did not deserve the
death
penalty
for the crime of my biological father.
In
Ezekiel chapter 18, it’s further explained: “But suppose this son
has
a
son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees
them,
he
does not do such things. . . . He will not die for his father’s
sin;
he
will surely live. But his father will die for his own sin. . . .
“Yet
you
ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since
the
son
has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all
my
decrees,
he will surely live. The one who sins is the one who will
die.
The
child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the
parent
share
the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will
be
credited
to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged
against
them.” — verses 14, 17 b, 18, 19-20
There
is ample scripture regarding God’s concern for the fatherless,
and
no
one is more at risk to end up fatherless than the child conceived
in
rape.
“Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or
the
widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place.” Jeremiah
22:3
3.
Isn’t this “the rapist’s baby” or “demon seed?”
No!
Every child is created by God, in His image, for a purpose. “So
God
created
man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male
and
female he created them.” — Genesis 1:27 And Job 31:15 explains:
“Did
not
he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form
us
both
within our mothers?”
Psalm
139:13-16 is true for every child, regardless of the
circumstances
of
his or her conception:
For
you created my inmost being;
you
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I
praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your
works are wonderful,
I
know that full well.
My
frame was not hidden from you
when
I was made in the secret place.
When
I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your
eyes saw my unformed body.
All
the days ordained for me
were
written in your book
before
one of them came to be.”
God
is the author of life and we are not to question what He
has
divinely
created. Isaiah 45: 9-12:
“Does
the clay say to the potter,
‘What
are you making?’
Does
your work say,
‘He
has no hands?’
Woe
to him who says to his father,
‘What
have you begotten?’
or
to his mother,
‘What
have you brought to birth?’”
“This
is what the Lord says —
the
Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning
things to come,
do
you question me about my children,
or
give me orders about the work of my hands?
It
is I who made the earth
and
created mankind upon it.”
In
Matthew 18, Jesus speaks at length about the little children,
and
says
the following in the parable of the lost sheep: “See that you
do
not
despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their
angels
in
heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. What do you
think?
If
a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he
not
leave
the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one
that
wandered
off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier
about
that
one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
In
the
same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of
these
little
ones should perish.” — verses 10:14
Jesus
was specifically talking about the little ones who are
despised
who
are at risk of perishing, and he makes it clear that God is
not
willing
that any of them should die! In today’s society, are not
these
despised
little ones children conceived in rape? There is no other
people
group today that are as systematically targeted and despised
as
the
child conceived in rape. But God isn’t about making
exceptions.
These
children are His priority!
4.
So does that mean that God intends rape?
No!
God gave people free will because love requires free will. He
wants
us
to be obedient out of love. Tragically, against the law of God,
some
use
that free will to harm others, as when Joseph’s brothers sold
him
into
slavery. But what they intended for evil, God used it for good.
See
Genesis
50: 19-21. It’s a theme we see throughout Scripture,
including
the
death and resurrection of our Savior. In Isaiah 63:3, we see
that
for
those who are grieving, He will “bestow on them a crown of
beauty
instead
of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment
of
praise
instead of a spirit of despair.” It’s what God does, and
what
He’s
famous for! Bringing good out of evil is one of His
trademarks.
“And
we know that in all things God works for the good of those who
love
him,
who have been called according to his purpose.” — Romans
8:28
God
is not pro-rape, just as valuing my own life does not make
me
pro-rape.
Mothers can love their children conceived in rape without
being
pro-rape. Being Christians does not make us pro-crucifixion,
and
neither
is God. Sorry if the question seems absurd to some of you,
but
please
keep in mind that these are actual questions I get asked.
5.
If a woman has committed the sin of abortion, is it
unforgivable?
No!
Jesus died on the cross once for all, for every sin. See
Romans
6:10,
1 Peter 3:18, and Hebrews 9:28. “If we confess our sins, his
is
faithful
and just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all
unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 “Repent then and turn to God so that your
sins
may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the
Lord.”
—
Acts 3:19
CONTRACEPTION
IS A SERIOUS SIN
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