While I am in favor of legislated morality and government intrusion into the bedroom were warranted by the Bible, I can't see how Christians can be so-called "pro-life". There is no point in the Bible where it says "life begins at conception". The best the so-called pro-lifers can do is wrench Jer 1:5 out of context.
Read in context, the Bible is saying that the Lord is able to see in the future and He had plans for Jeremy to be a great prophet.
The only place where the Bible discusses the death of an unborn is found in Exodus.
Translation into modern English: if you hit a woman with child and she miscarries but no further harm is done (aside from the dead fetus), then you pay a fine. If you do further harm, you shall give life for life.
This passage suggests to me that the unborn are not considered human beings under God's law.
Additionally, children are the property of their fathers. They can be slain virtually at will by the word of their father that the son or daughter is a drunk or a disobedient brat or whatever.
Even children after birth have no rights. The father can do with them as he pleases.
Quote:Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Read in context, the Bible is saying that the Lord is able to see in the future and He had plans for Jeremy to be a great prophet.
The only place where the Bible discusses the death of an unborn is found in Exodus.
Quote:Exodus 21:22-25 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Translation into modern English: if you hit a woman with child and she miscarries but no further harm is done (aside from the dead fetus), then you pay a fine. If you do further harm, you shall give life for life.
This passage suggests to me that the unborn are not considered human beings under God's law.
Additionally, children are the property of their fathers. They can be slain virtually at will by the word of their father that the son or daughter is a drunk or a disobedient brat or whatever.
Quote:Deut 21:18-21 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Even children after birth have no rights. The father can do with them as he pleases.
"You don't need facts when you got Jesus." -Pastor Deacon Fred, Landover Baptist Church
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™: True Christian is a Trademark of the Landover Baptist Church. I have no affiliation with this fine group of True Christians ™ because I can't afford their tithing requirements but would like to be. Maybe someday the Lord will bless me with enough riches that I am able to.
And for the lovers of Poe, here's your winking smiley:
