Abortion: What WOULD Jesus Do?
This silly story left me wondering . . . what WOULD Jesus do about abortion?
There's a little song we all know. It goes, "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."
If Jesus, as this Feelgooder tune claims, truly loves all the children of the world, why does He allow billions of them to be born with no chance of Salvation?
"What's that?" you ask. "No, no, everyone has an equal chance at Salvation. The vast majority of people just choose Hell instead of Jesus."
Let's investigate that, shall we?
Two classes of little children are, according to the Bible, condemned to eternal torture in the Pit of Hell by virtue of being born: Those who do not choose Jesus, and those who are illegitimate. Loopholes exist for some who fail to choose Jesus, but never for a bastard.
Deuteronomy 23:2
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
I don't see any ambiguity here. Neither a bastard, nor his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., to the tenth generation, may enter into the Lord's congregation. If they can't enter the congregation, how can they be Saved?
They can't.
Is there any loophole? Well, the Bible indicates that those "without understanding" aren't subject to the Law. That includes the mentally retarded, young children, and . . . the unborn.
What would Jesus do? Would Jesus allow an illegitimate child to be born, knowing that it would be condemned to an eternity in Hellfire because of its parentage? Or would Jesus abort that little fetus, giving it an effective "Get into Heaven Free" card?
I'd like to think He'd choose the compassionate option.
"But wait," you cry. "That's KILLING! God says THOU SHALT NOT KILL!"
Is it killing? Let's investigate. Does God consider the unborn to be people?
No.
Exodus 21:22-25 tells us, quite clearly, that an unborn embryo is not a person:
22 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.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give 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.
Well, there's punishment . . . a fine . . . but what about if he kills a man? Exodus 21:12 answers that:
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Clearly, God does not consider the unborn to be people. Therefore, the Bible does not condemn abortion; in fact, it seems clear that this would be the alternative preferred to condemning your illegitimate child to an eternity of torture for your misdeeds!
Do you still doubt God's Plan? If so, consider that 20% -- one of every five -- pregnancies fails. In most cases, the fertilized egg -- according to the antiChristian "Right to Life" crowd, a living person -- fails to implant, and the mother doesn't even know she was pregnant. Many more fail shortly after implantation. Look it up, if you doubt my veracity. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Back? Good. Did you look up how many millions of known miscarriages there are each year? Where the expectant mother actually knows that she's pregnant? Is God murdering all these children? Or are they not children at all, until they have taken the breath of life? (See Genesis 2:7; Adam was not "a living soul" until God breathed the "breath of life" through his nostrils!
In Christ's name, if you are pregnant and will not be married in time to give the child a legitimate birth, show some Christian compassion and abort the unwanted embryo, that it not suffer God's unending wrath for your failure to exercise a little self-restraint!!
