Question of the Week: How should a Christian view the topic of abortion?

The issue of abortion is only called an issue because people who support it continuously try to redefine it. Abortion is viewed from 3 categories, all of which are controversial no matter the topic. A Christian who can clarify all three from a biblical worldview will be able to prevent people from avoiding the real issue.
1. A Political Issue: Abortion being made illegal or not is an issue of politics to some because they claim that doing so will end up legislating morality. The problem with this issue is that they are confusing enforcing religious practice with legislation. All laws are legislating morality. You don’t have to be a Christian to recognize the merit of Christian morality. Clarifying this issue will simply be a result of clarifying that term. If abortion is made illegal, it’s on the same basis every law is based on. A moral code. Not the enforcement of a particular religion.
2. A Moral Issue: Abortion is a moral issue to some because it is by definition deliberately ending the life of a helpless human being. This issue is distorted by either redefining what makes someone human, or redefining what murder is. Making up hypothetical scenarios of rape and incest that compose less than 1% of all abortions as a standard for the other 99.9% are not only inconsistent, but unscientific. Do your research and point out that the only difference between an unborn child and a human adult is the same difference between a thirty year old and thirteen year old. Time and nurture. The “zygote” has all of the same chromosomes and potential to grow that a 15 year old has to grow up to be 20. As long as neither have their skulls crushed by scissors and thrown into a blender that is. Even if the mother’s life is in danger, any mother if asked to choose between the life of their baby or their own won’t have to be given a lot of time to give an answer.
3. A Biblical Issue: Abortion is an issue people claim Christianity has nothing to say about because the term abortion is never used or condemned in the Bible. Unfortunately this is simply false. Not only is the pagan practice of Moloch worship through infant sacrifice a capital offense in scripture, but unborn babies are addressed and treated as fully human both in the Old and New Testament. The prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah are both called by God to ministry within their mother’s wombs, David calls himself a sinner by nature the moment he was conceived, and individuals like Jesus and John the Baptist are described as having emotional reactions and identities as Children while still in their mother’s wombs.

According to the Bible, science, and modern law, Abortion is illegal, immoral, and condemned by scripture. No matter where or how the issue is addressed, every Christian should be informed about and stand against the practice of it.

Question of the Week: Why does God send people to Hell?

God doesn’t send anyone to Hell. He respects their decision to reject a relationship with Him and gives them an eternal state apart from Him. It’s important to understand that Hell isn’t a state of torture, but eternal torment. This is an internal and self-inflicted suffering caused by separation from the source of everything perfect and good. The reason people choose to go to Hell over Heaven is because they hate what makes Heaven what it is. For a Christian, Heaven is paradise because Jesus is there. We were all created for a relationship with God, but a relationship requires a choice. If God didn’t respect the wrong choice, then we never actually had a choice to begin with. The respect for that decision needs to be understood in light of two realities. First, that if God forced you to go into Heaven, He wouldn’t be loving nor would it be paradise for the person forced into His presence. And second, God didn’t make the road to Hell easy. Anyone who wants to go there must do so by crawling hand and foot over His dead and resurrected body.

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Question: How Should We Respond When People Claim Jesus’ Virgin Birth is Scientifically Impossible? 

Verses: 2 Peter 1:16, Luke 1:26-38

When someone equates a miracle claim and science, they’ve missed the point of both subjects entirely. Science is the observation of natural phenomena through experimentation and repetition. Miracles are when the natural law is interrupted by outside influences. An example of both would be as follows. Parthenogenesis is an observed and established occurrence in the animal kingdom among certain snakes, lizards, insects, and fish where a female can fertilize her own eggs and produce offspring when no males are available. This natural phenomena is rare, but observable and repeatable in certain conditions. Therefore it falls into the realm of a scientifically verifiable virgin birth. Likewise, when the virgin birth took place in a moment of human history, something unnatural was taking place. Was it through natural phenomena? Not according to the eyewitness reports themselves. Calling back to the prophecies of Isaiah and Micah 700 years before Jesus’ time, Mary was informed by a messenger known as Gabriel that she would give birth to a son. When the natural explanation made no sense, the messenger clarified that the Holy Spirit would overshadow her. This new factor would be the equivalent of a hand catching a rock as it falls. Normally when rocks are dropped, they eventually hit the ground. No one claims the laws of reality are broken when a hand introduces a new rule in catching it and thus preventing it from hitting the ground after it has been dropped. Therefore, if there is a natural law that includes the rule that virgins don’t normally conceive, then that will always be the case unless a new factor is introduced. And if that new factor is the intervention of the being that created the Universe from nothing, then physically entering a voluntary woman’s womb is small potatoes by comparison.

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