Archive for December, 2009

Abortion: Layers of the Dilemma (Portion Two)

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Flow of Divine Interaction

If we were still in the state of being, in which we honored the full Law of God, we would not have to selectively pick topics to which we, then, apply weighted judgment. For God, there is no weighted judgment. The apostle James sums up the matter. 

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.(James 2:8-13)Our fixation on abortion is one of those topic-specific sins. We think that we can give ourselves a measure of nobility by applying heavy weight to those things that press the most grievously on the hearts of a certain critical mass of us. This is a man-centered approach to religion. This is not the way of the Living God. The Living God does not apply special categories to sin. In the way of the LORD, either it is sin, or it is not. If it is sin, it will attract a negative spiritual consequence, and may place us in the way of judgment. In the absolute application of the judgment of the LORD God, there is only one treatment that is applied to behavior that is right, in the LORD. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.(Ezekiel 18:5-9)

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Abortion: Layers of the Dilemma (Portion One)

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Stages of the issue

Life is contained in the Living, as is illustrated in the sequence of events in the Bible that brought forth the start of life in mankind.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)

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Consideration: In the actions of life, the first concern is for the entities that are living souls. A living mother should not be sacrificed for a pre-living embryo, which, though it may have a measure of life, has not been given the breath of life to bring it to the point of being a living soul.

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Another consideration: definition of, life. For purposes of discussion, we will allow that an embryo has a portion of life. However, an embryo does not have human life, yet; because it is a unique category of existence. God described this as the first stage of a two-step process. It is the, fruitful, phase of human reproduction, as described in the commandment that we received at our creation.

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