The Bible & Abortion

[Lewis]

What Does the Bible Really Say About Abortion?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jo...tion_b_8076790.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

 

[Lewis]

You know, I am going to go back and read that again, it is something that I am not getting even though the guy explains himself well.

 

[electricaluser]

How does the bible say anything about abortion when the technology for abortion is only recent, but Christians stopped writing scripture about life and it's processes 2000 years ago.

I think you all got a lot of catching up to do Christians.

 

[JohnDB]

The guy is wrong.
The Bible is very specific concerning this matter.

Abortion was common. There was a herb that women would consume as an abortifactant. It was very popular and fairly effective. So much so that the region it came from placed it upon their coins.

There is the "incident" where a man from this city/region....he helped carry the cross for Jesus on his Crucifixion Day.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I think the best thing to do is to leave it to each woman's conscience and leave the procecdure itself legal and available, and safe as possible.

 

[electricaluser]

The guy is wrong.
The Bible is very specific concerning this matter.

Abortion was common. There was a herb that women would consume as an abortifactant. It was very popular and fairly effective. So much so that the region it came from placed it upon their coins.

There is the "incident" where a man from this city/region....he helped carry the cross for Jesus on his Crucifixion Day.

Ok, not sure if your talking about my post above or the article that the OP is talking about. But even so I know I can be absolutely be wrong about things, but in order for me to be wrong I am going to need those specific bible verses on the matter of abortion.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I was kind of concerned by the writer's other books...one is about books "missing" from The Bible. Not to sound like too traditional, but that's not something I approve of, personally.

 

[JohnDB]

Ok, not sure if your talking about my post above or the article that the OP is talking about. But even so I know I can be absolutely be wrong about things, but in order for me to be wrong I am going to need those specific bible verses on the matter of abortion.

I was referring to the guy who wrote the article.

Matthew 27:32

 

[Lewis]

How does the bible say anything about abortion when the technology for abortion is only recent, but Christians stopped writing scripture about life and it's processes 2000 years ago.

I think you all got a lot of catching up to do Christians.

Are you kidding me ?

I think the best thing to do is to leave it to each woman's conscience and leave the procecdure itself legal and available, and safe as possible.

Are you kidding me ?

 

[electricaluser]

I was referring to the guy who wrote the article.

Matthew 27:32

See I didn't know, because I said that the bible really says nothing specific about our current abortion practice. I thought your post was a reply to my comment.

 

[electricaluser]

Are you kidding me ?

Are you kidding me ?

Yeah I'm joking bro, I mean the bible tells us everything about everything.

 

[JohnDB]

See I didn't know, because I said that the bible really says nothing specific about our current abortion practice. I thought your post was a reply to my comment.

All is good.

The guy writing the article has an obvious agenda and a real lack of understanding scriptures. (Which is an average understanding)

God created all life. As such no one was to even touch blood or else they became "unclean" for doing so...because blood was life and that life belongs to God. Every animal killed for food demanded an accounting before God.

Any person's life (including your own) was property of God's.
One of the curses in the Old Testament was that armies would come and cut unborn babies out of pregnant women.

So where this article writer "finds no biblical Prohibition" the truth is vastly different.

 

[electricaluser]

All is good.

The guy writing the article has an obvious agenda and a real lack of understanding scriptures. (Which is an average understanding)

God created all life. As such no one was to even touch blood or else they became "unclean" for doing so...because blood was life and that life belongs to God. Every animal killed for food demanded an accounting before God.

Any person's life (including your own) was property of God's.
One of the curses in the Old Testament was that armies would come and cut unborn babies out of pregnant women.

So where this article writer "finds no biblical Prohibition" the truth is vastly different.

Well I'm just glad Jesus came along, he is a flash of fire that hits you and salt's your whole soul.

 

[jasonc]

I think the best thing to do is to leave it to each woman's conscience and leave the procecdure itself legal and available, and safe as possible.

Why not teach men to murder efficiently?aim at the target.any society that cares not for the weak and defenseless will not care for the poor.

 

[reba]

Psa_106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Why the age of the child allows some folks think/feel abortion is a woman's right is repugnant to me.

Psa 106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Psa 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Psa 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psa 106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
Psa 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
Psa 106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psa 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psa 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Psa 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Psa 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood

 

[Mike S]

Ok, not sure if your talking about my post above or the article that the OP is talking about. But even so I know I can be absolutely be wrong about things, but in order for me to be wrong I am going to need those specific bible verses on the matter of abortion.

I think John was talking about the "technology" of abortions. Abortions have been part of human life from the beginning, using different methods of causing fetuses to die.

Since the author of the article is concerned primarily with verses he quotes from the Hebrew writings instead of the New Testament, I think this verse is relevant:

Psalm 139:13
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I think it's pretty clear that we're unique human life, children of God, created by God, from the moment of conception.

 

[Michael74]

I am going to need those specific bible verses on the matter of abortion.

Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:13 KJV

 

[iLOVE]

Abortion is a sin...just as the sin of robbing God in tithes and offerings.

Drop the all caps Reba

 

[Free]

I think the best thing to do is to leave it to each woman's conscience and leave the procecdure itself legal and available, and safe as possible.

The only question that needs to be answered is: what are the unborn?

If the unborn are human beings and full members of the human community, then abortion is murder. And if abortion is murder, then it should be illegal. If the unborn are not human beings, then it isn't even a matter of a woman's conscience; abortion is fine.

The strongest philosophical and scientific arguments support the idea that the unborn are, in fact, human beings. Therefore, abortion should be made illegal.


As for the rest, none of the Scriptures given address abortion. The writer of the blog is more or less correct--the Bible may be silent on the issue, although it comes down to a translational issue. Of course it should be noted that silence on the issue does not mean a biblical case cannot be made against abortion.

According to Alvin J. Schmidt in his book Under the Influence: How Christianity Transformed Civilization, there are two references in the Bible that we can consider. The first is found in Gal. 5:20, in Paul's list of sins. The Greek word translated as "sorcery" or "witchcraft" is pharmakeia, which has as one of its meanings, the administering of potions or drugs, which is how abortion was performed in those days. Also worth noting is Rev. 21:8, wear John used the plural form pharmakos, immediately after condemning people who are "sexually immoral." That is fairly significant.

But pharmakeia is also used by the pagan writer Plutarch in specific reference to its use "for contraception and abortion purposes" (Schmidt, pg 57). And on it goes with extrabiblical references by Christians and Christian sources as well.

 

[Michael74]

There was a herb...

Silphium.