WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT ABORTION?
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What does the Bible say about Abortion?
a) What the Bible says about this subject has deeper spiritual consequences than society realizes. We know that the sixth of the Ten Commandments states we should not murder another person (Deuteronomy 5:17). One contentious issue that needs to be resolved regarding abortion is: What is a human being? More specifically, how does God define what constitutes a human?
b) Apart from those who justify abortion (killing the unborn) on the grounds that what is removed from a woman is not a person, God's word speaks of knowing someone in the womb. God knew the prophet Jeremiah very early in his human development (see Jeremiah 1:5). How could someone be known by God in the womb if they had not been given a mind and spirit - some of the essential ingredients that make all of us human?
c) The Bible states that Jesus was given the Holy Spirit, without measure, from conception. It certainly made him a special human who had the mind of God (and not man) within him. Having the Holy Spirit without measure right from the very beginning of his human life is one reason why he is called Immanuel ('god with us,' Matthew 1:23).
d) God considers humans whole and viable from conception. Each pregnancy is a miracle, the means by which he is reproducing himself. Killing a child in the womb attempts to stop this miracle. Not only does he know a human in the womb, he even knows what KIND of people they will be - as he told Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, when he said "One will be stronger than the other; The older will serve the younger." (Genesis 25:23).
e) God considers all men to be human at the time of conception - not at the time of birth. The consequences of abortion can be profound. If, for example, Rebekah's children would have been aborted, the whole fabric of history would have been changed. God reminds man, in Ecclesiastes, that he does not know everything.
i) 5 God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman. (Ecclesiastes 11:5)
f) This passage shows God considers what is growing inside a pregnant woman to be a child - a child with a purpose in his great plan for all man. One has to wonder what things in the world could have been different if killing unborn babies was not an option - if millions of innocent humans were not killed while they grew in the womb.
g) God's will in the Bible is that all humans repent so that they can become his spiritual sons and daughters. Abortion is man's attempt to deny God a family through murder. Clearly, it is not part of the will of an all-powerful, loving God.
The End ...
1. What does the Bible say about Abortion?a) What the Bible says about this subject has deeper spiritual consequences than society realizes. We know that the sixth of the Ten Commandments states we should not murder another person (Deuteronomy 5:17). One contentious issue that needs to be resolved regarding abortion is: What is a human being? More specifically, how does God define what constitutes a human?
b) Apart from those who justify abortion (killing the unborn) on the grounds that what is removed from a woman is not a person, God's word speaks of knowing someone in the womb. God knew the prophet Jeremiah very early in his human development (see Jeremiah 1:5). How could someone be known by God in the womb if they had not been given a mind and spirit - some of the essential ingredients that make all of us human?
c) The Bible states that Jesus was given the Holy Spirit, without measure, from conception. It certainly made him a special human who had the mind of God (and not man) within him. Having the Holy Spirit without measure right from the very beginning of his human life is one reason why he is called Immanuel ('god with us,' Matthew 1:23).
d) God considers humans whole and viable from conception. Each pregnancy is a miracle, the means by which he is reproducing himself. Killing a child in the womb attempts to stop this miracle. Not only does he know a human in the womb, he even knows what KIND of people they will be - as he told Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, when he said "One will be stronger than the other; The older will serve the younger." (Genesis 25:23).
e) God considers all men to be human at the time of conception - not at the time of birth. The consequences of abortion can be profound. If, for example, Rebekah's children would have been aborted, the whole fabric of history would have been changed. God reminds man, in Ecclesiastes, that he does not know everything.
i) 5 God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman. (Ecclesiastes 11:5)
f) This passage shows God considers what is growing inside a pregnant woman to be a child - a child with a purpose in his great plan for all man. One has to wonder what things in the world could have been different if killing unborn babies was not an option - if millions of innocent humans were not killed while they grew in the womb.
g) God's will in the Bible is that all humans repent so that they can become his spiritual sons and daughters. Abortion is man's attempt to deny God a family through murder. Clearly, it is not part of the will of an all-powerful, loving God.
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