Is Abortion Morally Right?

The Apologetic Dog

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It's funny because we're told not to talk about two things, politics and religion. And we have to talk about the

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God that saved us by his grace, so I'm choosing that one. But there will be times where our view of politics will intersect with our convictions about God's truth.

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And perhaps, well, we will definitely receive persecution from that, and we will receive the blessing that Christ is talking about there.

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And so perhaps one of the best, clearest examples that I could think of is the case about when it comes to laws on abortion.

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What ought to influence our thinking about being pro -choice or pro -life does not have to do with our life experiences, not what is convenient or inconvenient, or not even what our preferences may look like.

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The objective standard is what God has said and what he has revealed to us in his word.

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So you can see as we approach God's word, we are informed about what truth is, and that will necessarily reflect our political views.

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Scripture declares time and time over that fetuses are infants in the womb. They are persons.

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They are image bearers of God. And it almost goes without saying that murder is categorically wrong and sinful.

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It is wrong to kill another person because of your own preference. Scripture actually gives us insight to how

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God views an individual in the womb. The Lord said to the prophet Jeremiah, before I formed you in the womb,

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I knew you. God knew Jeremiah personally. That word know is more than just knowledge, but it's an intimate knowing.

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It's an intimate relationship. King David understood this in Psalm 139.

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He said, oh Lord, you have searched me and known me, for you have formed my inward parts.

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You have knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well. King David understood that life began at conception, and he put it in the negative sense in Psalm 51.

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He says, in sin did my mother conceive me. David did not mean that he was an illegitimate child, but that from conception he was a sinner, and only a person can be a sinner.

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And so my last point on this, I wanted to show you that the scripture speaks so much about who people are and where life begins.

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In fact, case law in Exodus 21 says that if a person harms a pregnant woman and she loses the baby, then the punishment is life for life.

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Point I'm getting at also is that no baby is a mistake. No baby is a sexual accident or a biological accident.

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No baby is a pile of tissue, and no baby is a part of the mother's body.

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They are created by God. Now, they are in the mother's body in the safest place possible, but they are a person created by God Almighty.

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And we're talking a little bit about politics, and friend, I hope that you are pro -life, but not because you are just a voice that wants to be heard.

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Not because you are a male or female, like that matters in this conversation, and not because of any tradition, but I pray that you are pro -life because you stand firm on the word of God that informs us.

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Every life is created by God, and in His image to bear His image.

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And so when we stand up on God's truth, and we do vote in a particular way, or we do have political views, let it be on the account of Jesus for His truth.

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He is God. We do not get to determine these things. Sorry about that. So moving on.