If I remember sunday school right when Mary was pregnant the people of the town wanted to stone her but Joseph saved her.
Wouldn't this have been like a form of abortion? Did these people not see it as abortion?
I am assuming that abortion was bad back then.
2006-07-02 10:38:37 · 21 answers · asked by Lexi 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nope-not in Bible. Joseph her husband was about to "put her away" privately. That means, divorce her without fan-fair. It says nothing about people wanting to stone her. You are twisting things up a little .
2006-07-02 10:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if your information is accurate. At least within the traditional Bible, I do not think it is, but perhaps there is another story in the Catholic Bible about this. All I know is that Joseph had in his mind to quietly leave Mary, so as not to humiliate her, until an angel of the Lord visited him and told him that the child would be the Son of God.
If what you say is correct though, it wouldn't be so much a form of abortion as much as a form of murder. The stoning would have killed Mary too, probably as punishment for being pregnant out of wedlock. That is how Stephen, the first martyr was killed.
But as I said before, I don't ever remember hearing/reading this story in the Bible before, so I don't know that it's even a pertinent question.
2006-07-02 17:52:06 · answer #2 · answered by Ashley C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stoning someone to death would be murder, not abortion. As far as abortion being "bad back then," I would imagine that any form of abortion 2,006 years ago had to be pretty rudimentary. I can't see it as being prevalent--but then again, I wasn't there, so who am I to say? ... Anyway, anybody who believes that murder is fine and dandy probably isn't going to argue the finer political points of whether or not abortion is okay, so the question you're asking seems moot. I mean, who cares if potential murderers are also potential abortionists? In other words, what are you trying to prove? People who stoned people to death were not moral people. You wouldn't be proving anything by saying that they believed abortion was okay too.
2006-07-02 17:45:18 · answer #3 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't for abortion that they would have stoned an unmarried woman, but for the sexual infidelity if she was engaged to someone else.
No one was going to stone Mary, Joseph had the legal right to divorce her, but decided not to due to a visit from an angel.
2006-07-02 17:44:17 · answer #4 · answered by bobm709 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have to ask you a question. Did they follow Gods laws? If they did not then what they were doing was of man. Remember the Pharisees - they considered themselves to be holy, but they did not do the work of the Bible. They only talked about it and told others how to act.
So, if God says love one another like I have loved you. Then those people should have shown Mary compassion and told her what was wrong and yet helped her overcome this by praying with her and holding her up to God with love.
REMEMBER LOVE THE SINNER NOT THE SIN...
2006-07-02 17:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by waeyeaw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea but abortion is when the pregnant woman kills her own child. They stoned her because she sinned or at least they thought. This is a complicated subject. I don't really know.
2006-07-02 17:45:59 · answer #6 · answered by Armygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, abortion wasn't as big of a deal back then. Earlier or less "sophisticated" (for lack of a better word) societies than America had a more practical approach to children. They were more concerned about survival and viewed children less sentimentally than americans do. Midwives back then had ways to cause miscarriages when a woman could not care for another baby.
2006-07-02 17:44:28 · answer #7 · answered by dawubbies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, stoning was legalized murder, but the fetus would have gone down with the ship, so I guess it would, kind be abortion. BUt I don't think as many people would have gotten all up tight about it then as now.
2006-07-02 23:48:18 · answer #8 · answered by marquise_hari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder how they performed abortions then.. a twig?, welll i would have to say that a stoning would have killed her and the baby unless protected by god. Besides this, i bet women didnt want to abort a child like they do now, because they were more careful, and their were strict laws about sexual intercourse,marrage, etc... laws enforced by death
2006-07-02 17:44:28 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They wanted to kill Mary. That's just murder. Last time I checked you don't kill the mother just to perform an abortion. Actually as far as I'm aware they wouldn't of considered the baby alive until it had been born.
2006-07-02 17:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋