Is abortion Murder according to the bible?

Question

THERE ARE ONLY TWO passages in the Bible that speak directly to the issue of abortion, and both indicate unequivocally that abortion is not murder:
• In Num. 5:11-31, God commands a husband to get an abortion for his wife if he suspects she has been impregnated by another man. A priest is to make her drink a potion and tell her, "If any man other than your husband has had intercourse with you, may the LORD make an example of you . . . by bringing upon you miscarriage and untimely birth."
• In Ex. 21:22-25, God tells us what to do if a man who is brawling knocks against a pregnant woman. If the woman dies, the principle of "life for life" is invoked and the man responsible for her death must be killed. If she lives but has a miscarriage, then the death of the fetus is to be compensated for by the payment of a fine, as demanded by the woman’s husband.

To deliberately cause a miscarriage is to perform an abortion. And who brings about this miscarriage? God.

Answer 1

since the book is heavy on metaphor, you could support practically any position with it, using a little creativity

Answer 2

I think you are taking some poetic license here. The passage in Numbers says nothing about abortion but is talking about adultery and a birth. Does birth mean abortion to you? Were you aborted? Just because a child is born does not necessarily mean it is an abortion any more than your birth was an abortion just because you were born prematurely. That could be called an untimely birth. So there is no proof there was any kind of abortion meant here. It is the same with the second passage. An abortion is not necessarily performed by God but can be performed by a man also. If it is done by a man that has purposefully bumped against her to make her abort, it does not condone any miscarriage or abortion but is telling what the punishment should be. You are reading way too much into it. Why not just read what it says and then do some research on what it really all means by way of a bible commentary and with other parts of the bible? That is where you get the truth. And, no, a miscarriage is not always brought about by God but you could bring about a miscarriage in many ways even if you did not mean to do it. Just a fact of life. And even if God did bring it about, is not God the one that gave the life in the first place and is He not the one that has a right to end it if He so chooses? It is not something we have a right to do but only God as He is the life GIVER so He is the only one that has the right to take it if He chooses. So yes, for anyone but God to do abortion is truly murder. But not murder for God to do it. He gave it, he can take it. WE can't give life so it is not for us to take.

Answer 3

Yes it is to take a life is murder no matter how you look at it.

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet unto the nations”.

And please reread Numbers 5:11-31 God did not command an abortion he was tell the procedures that a priest is to take when a women is unclean the talk of her thighs rotting and belly swelling is not saying to abort the child.

Fornication may be, in some sense, covered by a subsequent marriage of the parties; but adultery cannot be so healed.

But by the Law of Moses, both the man and the woman who had committed adultery were punished with death

And if I get in a fight with someone and cause a woman to miscarriage who’s fault is it? mine for not Loving my neighbor and I am the one who brought shame on myself and my GOD.
And Moses tells us what take place for that too.

But I think no matter what is written for an answer you will not be happy.
So please do not be angry about the answers you get.

God Bless

Answer 4

In Numbers God's judgment would control the situation. The penalty for adultery was death also.

In Exodus, if children came out, (miscarriage) and no fatal accident occurred, then a fine was imposed by the owner of the woman. But if there was a fatal accident; then soul for soul.

This law was used by God to validate the equalness of Adam and Jesus.

God is a righteous judge. And who said that these babies would not be resurrected by God? Jesus said, 'All those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out.' John 5:28,29.

' You must love your neighbor as yourself'....'Love does not work evil to it's neighbor'....'The Devil is a man slayer'....'Jesus has come so that you might have life'....Clearly will full abortion is murder.

Today the Christian way of handling sin is different from the way the Israelites did. For one thing, they were a nation and a religion. Today Christianity is a religion, within other governments.

Answer 5

specific that's. You err on your assessment of Numbers. it rather is not suggesting abortion by using fact the consequence of the potion yet to tell if she is somewhat telling the certainty. Nowhere does it ever state that's for an abortion, neither is abortion ever stated. that's for jealousy, not abortion, that the potion is even administered to be sure if the girl is telling the certainty approximately laying with yet another guy. If she did and lied approximately it, it says not something approximately abortion yet that her abdomen could swell and her thigh could rot. do not know the place you're starting to be your wording from yet I somewhat have my bible open and it says not something yet what I somewhat have instructed you. See the NKJV. No, it rather is not God doing any abortion as that's not even stated right here yet in basic terms a curse that is on a woman if she have been to lie approximately what she did to reason her husband to be jealous. extra suited examine it back and you will see a huge distinction.

Answer 6

10 commandments, thou shalt not kill nor do anything like unto it. I am LDS and abortion is not something I support except under a few rare circumstances. If the baby is the result of rape or incest, If the life and health of the mother is judged to be in severe jeopardy, Or when the fetus is known to have severe birth defects that will not allow it to survive the outside world. Other then this though, I believe there are better options then abortion.

Answer 7

Ok, the Priest may deliver the "bitter water" to the woman, but, if she is innocent, then the Holy Spirit will not let the woman's child die.

This is left up to the LORD, as the offerings are made, and the LORD would decide, not man, if the woman should die, or the child should die...

Remember, the LORD is the potter, and not us.
What the LORD does, men shouldnt interfere with.

Also remember, we are under Grace now...

JESUS died for all our sins, and all maybe forgiven, (except blashpemy against the Holy Ghost...but, most dont even know what that is).

JESUS came and fulfilled the Law...

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 8

I believe that abortion is murder. I have looked up the verses you've quoted, and I see nothing about abortion. In the first verse, it says that if a woman sleeps with a man other than her husband, the priest will, among other things, give her bitter water. If She has not sinned, it will do her no harm. If she has, the it says, "may God cause your people to curse and revile you when he makes your womb shrivel and your belly swell."
This is God's punishment for sin. I believe that God's laws are above our own, and do not question him here. It may seem naive, but I have faith in my God. But I believe that earthly abortion(a doctor killing the baby) is murderous and wrong.

Answer 9

21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
There's no abortion here, this is the effect of the curse if she is guilty of being with another man. The effect of the curse will render her unable to bear children.

In Exodus - this miscarriage is caused by the woman being struck while the men are fighting..... miscarriage isn't abortion....

Answer 10

You have left out a lot of stuff. God tells us that if our eye causes us to sin we are to pluck it out---- and on and on about removing parts of the body to attone for sin. And God frequently calls for the murder of pregnant women who have sinned, which is the killing of the sinner and the innocent child.
Yet God says that those that do not sin have eternal life as do those whose sins are forgiven. So there is no "death" in abortion. And that is because a loving God does not kill his creation. And a loving God does not kill in abortion.
Abortion is about who your God is. You can believe in my all loving God that does not murder, or you can believe in a hateful god that kills doctors, bombs clinics and harasses women. Both of these types of gods can be derived from the bible. But most sane people believe in the loving God that uses abortion as the logical and sensable approach to controlling life on Earth.

Answer 11

in teh Num case, there is no causing of an abortion. the treated water that the woman drinks is simply to attest to her fidelity, not kill a fetus. If she is found to be lying, in fact SHE dies from teh water.

In teh second case (exodus) the fetus is only worth a fine if it is satill the same as a limb of the mother -- that is, it would not be viable as a baby if born. After a fetus is viable, the miscarriage caused is treated more as a murder.