I already answered your questions.
You have not
Please answer mine: Do you believe that your faith and the practice of your faith can and MUST be established from scripture alone without additions from tradition or development?
The question you ask is not a reply to the question posed in this thread. Let it be asked again;
IF someone such as myself were to say that my understandings for God, Christ and salvation are entirely founded on "
Sola Scriptura" does this mean that in other peoples views I could be considered a heretic?
Dear, dear KBCid. I love you. I feel very confident in what I believe. I have told you what I believe and I am not emarrassed to say it. Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible. It is a self defeating theory.
Then you deny the words of God;
Sola Scriptura was/is a founding principle for protestant Christians
and is found as a principle in scripture itself;
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
If you are to embarrassed to say what you believe then just let me know and I will leave this thread. If sola Scriptura is true then show me in the Bible where it says that abortion is wrong or a sin or murder. Respectfully, Mary
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
It is a shame that you do not see the will of God in scripture....
Gen 9:5 Besides that,
I will demand an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand an accounting from every living creature; and from each man I will demand an accounting for the life of his brother. Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed,
for in God’s image He made man.
Genesis 25:22
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb...
Psalm 139: Your eyes even saw me as an embryo; All its parts were written in your book Regarding the days when they were formed, Before any of them existed.
“Looking at Old Testament law from a proper cultural and historical context, it is evident that the life of the unborn is put on the same par as a person outside the womb.”
John Jefferson Davis,
Abortion and the Christian (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1984), 52.
Exodus 21:22 “If men should struggle with each other and they hurt a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but no fatality results, the offender must pay the damages imposed on him by the husband of the woman; and he must pay it through the judges.
But if a fatality does occur, then you must give life for life...
Isaiah 44:24 "Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the One who formed you from the womb...
Num 35:29 These things will serve for you as a statute for judgment throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 30 “‘
Whoever kills a person should be put to death as a murderer on the testimony of witnesses; but no one will be put to death on the testimony of just one witness.
Luke 1:
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed
art thou among women, and blessed
is the fruit of thy womb.
43And whence
is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Exodus 20:
13 Thou shalt not kill.
Psalm 127;
3 Lo, children
are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb
is his reward.
Your implication that there isn't any reprisal for the taking of the life of an unborn child in the old testament laws is without foundation.
You are from an age far removed from the ancient Hebrew language and understanding and because you do not see your modern delineation of a baby (being defined in the same way as you perceive it) in the biblical record you feel confident in indirectly implying that God had less than human morals.
You're implication denigrates God in an attempt to support the works of men.