Thank you Charity.
I gave the example of abortion. I asked is it an "attack" if I passionately and vehemently disagree with a person who believes abortion is supported in scripture. How would you, Charity, using grace and respect to disagree with a fellow forum member? Would you show me how to do this?
Here is my argument on how abortion is not murder: In Genesis 2:7 God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being." In Job 33:4 it states: "The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."
I, Marymog, contend that a human was not truly formed or "living" until the first breath entered it's lungs and the child was able to breathe on his own.
What say you?? Thank you in advance....
Mary
'He came unto His own,
.. and His own received Him not.
.... But as many as received Him,
...... to them gave He power to become the sons of God,
........ even to them that believe on His name:
which were born,
.. not of blood,
.... nor of the will of the flesh,
...... nor of the will of man,
........ but of God.'
(John 1:11-13)
Hello Mary,
Medical science has given us the opportunity to do right or to do wrong in so many ways hasn't it? by giving us options. Decisions are required of us now that were unavailable in days gone by. This brings responsibility. It is ironic that Eve was beguiled by Satan into believing that she would be like God, knowing good from evil, if she ate of the fruit of the tree. Now, in our day, she is having to make decisions that only God has the shoulders to bare, decisions that only He should make. That is what knowledge has brought us. We are having to reap what we have sown it seems.
My Mother had a down syndrome child in her late forties, a lovely boy, who was a joy in so many ways. Today, the opportunity is given to abort a child who has an abnormality. Mum would not have had an abortion, even had she known, so we would not have been deprived of my brother. Today many are choosing to make the decision to deprive a child of life because medical testing has advanced to the point where diagnoses brings knowledge, but with knowledge comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes accountability, and therefore judgement.
We will all have to stand before God one day, when the decision of life or death will be His to make and not ours.
There is only silence left when faced with that prospect.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
