Surely it is the evil one who has revealed these “Biblical truths” to you. Twisting what is obvious to every person whose conscience that has not been seared. That’s what Satan tried to do with Jesus, same tricks, same enemy.
I Counsel women who have had abortions.
They come to realize pretty quickly, that they were deceived by the devil into killing their baby who’s life had been set into perpetual motion, and she halted it. No amount of cherry picking and partial truths will change the fact that you will stand in judgment for your decisions. I don’t say that gleefully I say that heavy heartedly.
Turn to God and beg forgiveness while He can be found.
I am Christian. I believe in God. I believe God is merciful and forgives sins. WE are not to stand in judgement of other’s choices, be they sinful choices or not. We are commanded to love our neighbors as God loves us, with mercy and grace. God is omnipotent, God has THEIR plan for every one of their children, and still terrible things happen to their children every singe day. Who are we to say God’s plan for the woman and a fetus is not for her to be changed and brought closer to God because of her choice of an abortion?
God provides us free will. God allows us to sin, so we can see his mercy and forgiveness; to learn from it and be brought closer to him.
There is so much judgment and condescension from the Religious Right on abortion that it drives many people AWAY from God and his teachings and his light. It creates the darkness they claim to repel.
Thank you for writing on this topic. People can still believe in God and be Children of Christ and not want government trying to take away their ability to make free will choices for themselves.
Funny how the comments are all clearly from anti-abortionists. Especially the one with the graphic detail of abortion, which would only even be accurate if the fetus was developed enough to have a clear head. And people aren’t having abortions past the point of viability unless it’s medically necessary. But fun fact, there are also abortion pills! Which do not include any of the grotesque imagery. And like you said– the Bible has absolutely contemplated far more grotesque things.
This is without a shadow of a doubt the single worst thing I have read on either side of the abortion debate, and definitely one of the 3 worst attempts at making sense of scripture I've ever seen. Just stick to whatever you do that isn't bad scripture reading
Maybe the term 'abortion' is just too abstract. Having the affair reduced to a simple term misses the nuance. And of course, late term abortion is a wee bit different from the 15 week limit most civilized countries have mandated.
For the later term, instead of 'abortion', how about "The medical procedure where a woman goes to the clinic and has the viable fetus extracted by grabbing its head --which does have a brain and active brainwaves--- with forceps, crushing and turning said head until it snaps off from the torso before cutting off limbs and sucking those out, only to scoop out the remaining torso and its once beating heart."
More descriptive--and accurate too.
Do you even know what an 'abortion' is? [Hint: It's not a choice.] 3 minutes of your time. Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Af8vIym2o&t=2s [You won't--but you'll sure as hell write about it.]
The Bible doesn't explicitly refer to abortion because its writers never contemplated anything quite so grostesque.
But sure, your post really nails those biblical pro-lifers to the cross!
The word "miscarriage" doesn't even appear in that verse in the original Hebrew. Translated below
"And when men fight and strike a pregnant woman ('ishah harah) and her children (yeladeyha) go forth (weyatse'u), and there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the husband of the woman may put upon him; and he shall give by the judges. But if there is injury, you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
And here is the Geneva translation
Exodus 21:22-25
1599 Geneva Bible
22 Also if men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her child depart from her death follow not, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband shall appoint him, or he shall pay as the Judges determine.
23 But if death follow, then thou shalt pay life for life.
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
That is why the NIV and some modern day bible verses aren't taken as serious because of its mistranslations. You have deceptively cherry picked and altered a verse by omitting the word "prematurely" from the NIV and added the footnote from the modern day translator, changing the meaning from it's oldest sourses to fit your political narrative.
Look, I get it.. You dislike Christians and pay whole allegiance to a political party. But at least have some integrity in your writing and refrain from deceptive trickery in your work...amateurish at best.
Surely it is the evil one who has revealed these “Biblical truths” to you. Twisting what is obvious to every person whose conscience that has not been seared. That’s what Satan tried to do with Jesus, same tricks, same enemy.
I Counsel women who have had abortions.
They come to realize pretty quickly, that they were deceived by the devil into killing their baby who’s life had been set into perpetual motion, and she halted it. No amount of cherry picking and partial truths will change the fact that you will stand in judgment for your decisions. I don’t say that gleefully I say that heavy heartedly.
Turn to God and beg forgiveness while He can be found.
about the least competent exegesis I have ever read
If I were you, I would delete it,
It is an embarrasing understanding of God and scripture
I am Christian. I believe in God. I believe God is merciful and forgives sins. WE are not to stand in judgement of other’s choices, be they sinful choices or not. We are commanded to love our neighbors as God loves us, with mercy and grace. God is omnipotent, God has THEIR plan for every one of their children, and still terrible things happen to their children every singe day. Who are we to say God’s plan for the woman and a fetus is not for her to be changed and brought closer to God because of her choice of an abortion?
God provides us free will. God allows us to sin, so we can see his mercy and forgiveness; to learn from it and be brought closer to him.
There is so much judgment and condescension from the Religious Right on abortion that it drives many people AWAY from God and his teachings and his light. It creates the darkness they claim to repel.
Thank you for writing on this topic. People can still believe in God and be Children of Christ and not want government trying to take away their ability to make free will choices for themselves.
Funny how the comments are all clearly from anti-abortionists. Especially the one with the graphic detail of abortion, which would only even be accurate if the fetus was developed enough to have a clear head. And people aren’t having abortions past the point of viability unless it’s medically necessary. But fun fact, there are also abortion pills! Which do not include any of the grotesque imagery. And like you said– the Bible has absolutely contemplated far more grotesque things.
This is without a shadow of a doubt the single worst thing I have read on either side of the abortion debate, and definitely one of the 3 worst attempts at making sense of scripture I've ever seen. Just stick to whatever you do that isn't bad scripture reading
Maybe the term 'abortion' is just too abstract. Having the affair reduced to a simple term misses the nuance. And of course, late term abortion is a wee bit different from the 15 week limit most civilized countries have mandated.
For the later term, instead of 'abortion', how about "The medical procedure where a woman goes to the clinic and has the viable fetus extracted by grabbing its head --which does have a brain and active brainwaves--- with forceps, crushing and turning said head until it snaps off from the torso before cutting off limbs and sucking those out, only to scoop out the remaining torso and its once beating heart."
More descriptive--and accurate too.
Do you even know what an 'abortion' is? [Hint: It's not a choice.] 3 minutes of your time. Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Af8vIym2o&t=2s [You won't--but you'll sure as hell write about it.]
The Bible doesn't explicitly refer to abortion because its writers never contemplated anything quite so grostesque.
But sure, your post really nails those biblical pro-lifers to the cross!
This was so helpful. Thank you.
In Exodus 21:22-25,
The word "miscarriage" doesn't even appear in that verse in the original Hebrew. Translated below
"And when men fight and strike a pregnant woman ('ishah harah) and her children (yeladeyha) go forth (weyatse'u), and there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the husband of the woman may put upon him; and he shall give by the judges. But if there is injury, you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe."
And here is the Geneva translation
Exodus 21:22-25
1599 Geneva Bible
22 Also if men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her child depart from her death follow not, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband shall appoint him, or he shall pay as the Judges determine.
23 But if death follow, then thou shalt pay life for life.
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
That is why the NIV and some modern day bible verses aren't taken as serious because of its mistranslations. You have deceptively cherry picked and altered a verse by omitting the word "prematurely" from the NIV and added the footnote from the modern day translator, changing the meaning from it's oldest sourses to fit your political narrative.
Look, I get it.. You dislike Christians and pay whole allegiance to a political party. But at least have some integrity in your writing and refrain from deceptive trickery in your work...amateurish at best.