The Bible and Abortion
Aug 15, 2019 21:30:07 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Aug 15, 2019 21:30:07 GMT -5
Is the life within the womb considered fully human?
Abortion, the termination of life in the womb, has become a commodity where it is done for the sake of avoiding inconveniences.
Over 98 percent of the abortions performed today involve women who simply do not want to have the baby. Less than two percent of abortions are for the reasons of rape, incest, or the mother's life is at risk. Even in these more difficult two percent of instances, abortion should never be the first option. The life of a human being in the womb is worth every effort to allow the child to be born.
www.gotquestions.org/abortion-Bible.html
www.gotquestions.org/abortion-Bible.html
Of course many of such women don't really consider that they are killing a human being because those who approve of abortion strive to dehumanize it based on stage of development. They have been led to believe that what they are carrying can be discarded as if it had been a mere appendage. But what does the Bible have to say about this?
Then there are women who don’t care one way or the other what the Bible has to say. In fact, I have observed certain women repeatedly proudly boasting about how they avoided raising kids by killing them all before they were born. For such women I suppose that what the Bible has to say about it is totally irrelevant. However, for those women who want to do what is right in the creator’s eyes, and who take their claims to Christianity seriously, what the Bible has to say about it does matter. So it is for these that the following information is provided.
How exactly does the Bible view the life that is in a woman’s womb. The scripture below answers that question clearly.
Then there are women who don’t care one way or the other what the Bible has to say. In fact, I have observed certain women repeatedly proudly boasting about how they avoided raising kids by killing them all before they were born. For such women I suppose that what the Bible has to say about it is totally irrelevant. However, for those women who want to do what is right in the creator’s eyes, and who take their claims to Christianity seriously, what the Bible has to say about it does matter. So it is for these that the following information is provided.
How exactly does the Bible view the life that is in a woman’s womb. The scripture below answers that question clearly.
Exodus 21:22
22, If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows. 23But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
In other words, the life of the unborn unborn was considered as equally valuable as the life of the person who caused his death. That's why it was required that the killer pay with his life. So the pro- abortion argument that what is yet unborn in a woman’s womb isn’t a human life, is directly contradicted by the Mosaic law which tells us that it is by treating it in the same way that it treats murder where the murderer is executed for the life he took. It is in harmony with the Mosaic Law rule of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Meaning things of equal value were demanded from the offender. So when the life of the person causing the unborn's death is demanded, it means that God considered both lives of equal value.
Old Testament scholar Gleason Archer Jr. summarized the point of the passage:
What is required is that if there should be an injury either to the mother or to her children, the injury shall be avenged by a like injury to the assailant. If it involves the life (ne-pes’) of the premature baby, then the assailant shall pay for it with his life. There is no second-class status attached to the fetus under this rule (1982, p. 248, emp. added).
Archer, Gleason L. Jr. (1982), An Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan).