Would Jesus be both Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion?

Question

I can understand where people think that Jesus would be against abortion.

However, Jesus spoke of free will, which involves us having the CHOICE of what to choose. Nowhere in the bible can I see where Jesus ever advocated FORCING people to not sin. He never advocated the idea of enforcing his beliefs through government and a police force.

Instead, didn't he reach out to people to try to get them to CHOOSE to do the right thing, but didn't force people to?

Even the story of the moneychangers in the temple doesn't apply here. He might have expressed his anger and overturned tables, but the story ends with him leaving the temple and the moneychangers stay. Surely he had the power to stop them if he wanted to, but didn't. He let them choose.


So I ask you, wouldn't Christ actually be BOTH Anti-abortion, but also Pro-Choice (free will means that you can choose)?


I realize that many people won't think this through and just get angry, but I'm hoping the someone intelligent will reply

first poster: I never said that Jesus would be pro-abortion. Only that he would let people choose.

second poster: It's a hypothetical. Food for thought. Why be afraid of actually thinking about these issues?

*sigh*
midlandsharon, please read it again. You've missed the entire point.

I never said that he's approve of abortion, just that he would let people make their own choices between good and evil.

to The Wraith:

You accuse me of being wrong....

funny that you can't tell me WHAT I'm wrong about.


sounds to me that you want to believe this but cant back it up.

Answer 1

To a point I agree with you, meaning we shouldn't be trying to make a law against it. But even without the law, we should be trying to convince women not to have an abortion. However, even saying they shouldn't (not making a law, but just saying they shouldn't) gets a argument back. No matter what is done or said it will seem to the women who want the abortion that we are trying to control them, so this is a no-win situation for anti-abortionists. Though I agree Jesus would have us only try to reason with them rather than forcing the issue by laws or punishments of any kind.

Answer 2

That is such a good question. I thought of this myself for years. I believe Jesus will be Pro- Choice, not Pro-Abortion. There are many times in the Bible where Jesus gave people the choice to chose their actions, he never imposed his will on them. He always told stories of people with the same obstacle in front of them and the choices that they made at the end. The Good Samaritan story dealt with choosing to help someone in need or not too. He told the prostitute to go and sin no more. He didn't condemn her for her actions, but telling her her choice was a sin and she shouldn't do it. But he didn't force her to take just one choice.

Even at the end of his human life, he LET Judas make the choice of betraying him. He never FORCED anyone to do one action. Jesus always gave his advice and knowledge on a subject, but he never forced them to act one way.

Jesus was more upset about the church being in the business of making money and doing sinful things, and they are suppose to be the church.

At the end, Jesus would say "Love your Neighbor as Yourself", which many people definitely don't do. The question is if a human life barely the size of a shrimp justify as a neighbor. If we aren't suppose to destroy life: what about war, antibacterial soap, and the pesticides. How far do we go?

My belief is he is Definitely Pro-Choice. Jesus would believe in the choice of your decision. Every choice will have its consequences and only GOD can say if it was a right or wrong choice. That decision will come after your life not before.

Answer 3

Just because He gave us a free will, and therefore the ability to choose, doesn't mean that He approves of all of our choices. Some of our choices are still sin, which is why He came to earth in the first place.

Yes, Jesus has the power to stop us from making those choices that are sinful, but He chooses not to. He wants us to love Him of our own free will and this cannot happen when we don't have the right to choose.

Because of our sins, He had to die on the cross as the sacrifice and be raised again to show that He has conquered death.

Answer 4

LOL it rather is a susceptible argument, no longer that I disagree with you. I in basic terms hate to work out a susceptible argument, and enable me clarify. those are 2 rather some issues, even in spite of the undeniable fact which you will possibly no longer see it. The 'selection' of abortion is seen via the final wing as killing an harmless toddler, a individual no longer yet born, yet with a soul. in my opinion, to me, there could be a 2nd between theory and beginning that the 'toddler' is often used with, so hence it would be murderous at that factor to kill them. although, if there is a thank you to end the strengthen quickly after it rather is conceived, i do no longer see why which could no longer be carried out. The 'conflict' is yet another ingredient. the final wing will say that they are sending volunteer grownups right into a conflict that's in basic terms. that's the ingredient that makes this argument susceptible, no longer that I disagree with it. i'm nevertheless hung on what to think of approximately this conflict, via fact Sadaam Hussein and his sons have been murderers and rapists and had their rape and torture rooms rather busy. although, I additionally ponder whether there have been some 'different' ulterior reason to beginning the conflict. So at the same time as your question seems logical, it rather is not once you look heavily on the thoughts.

Answer 5

Procreation is an ongoing process which can be interrupted at any point, right from not having sex in the first place, through contraception, and drugs which prevent implantation, to abortion anywhere up to the moment of birth.

Somewhere along that process, most people would have a point where they consider it's OK to interfere to prevent the birth of a baby up to that point, but not afterwards - e.g. abstinence is OK, but contraception isn't.... or contraception is OK, but abortion isn't... or abortion is OK but only up to week 20... or whatever. It's simply a matter of conscience where you personally decide to draw the line, and on what basis.

For myself, I cannot accept that an undifferentiated bunch of cells has more rights than the fully grown adults who are responsible for its existence. I also cannot accept that it's right to kill a foetus when it's fully developed and due to be born. Logically then, there has to be a point somewhere in between that I decide, on the basis of conscience, is the point at which abortion becomes unacceptable. I don't know enough about it to have a definite view where that point lies, but it must lie somewhere in the 9 months of pregnancy.

It's in the nature of life that there are no easy answers to this kind of question, as it's a matter of subjective opinion rather than objective fact - and my opinion is that abortion cannot be wrong, per se.

Oh, and it's pointless to argue about whether the embryo is 'human life' or not - Of course it is. That is not the issue. The issue is whether a human life at a stage of being a tiny featureless blob of cells should be protected at the expense of the wishes of the parents - and particularly the woman who would have to give birth to it. I don't think it should.

So if Jesus really existed and thought about the issue rationally then I think he would support abortion for the same reasons that I do.

Answer 6

I am sincerely appalled by some of the questions and answers on this site in regards to Christianity, our Creator, and Jesus.

People need to get right with the Triune: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

The reason God gave us free will was so that we would not be puppets and that we would love Him freely. Do you want to be in a relationship in which you are forced to love the person, or in one in which you freely love the person? The more freedom you have to love someone, the deeper that love runs.

Remember this from 1 Corinthians 10:23: All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

God wants us to make WISE choices, not just any kind of choices. He wants us to make choices that will build others up and that include loving our brothers and sisters. Destroying a human life is destroying a piece of God. That is against God's law and lead to destruction of our souls without repentance (repentance is sincere sorrow for one's regressions, resulting in a change in one's ways).

Answer 7

As an open minded christian, I see and understand what you mean. I think that Jesus is anti - abortion but He will leave it up to you. I don't think God is happy when we make the wrong choices but it's the same with salvation. God will never force anyone to serve Him. He let's you make any decision you want but if it's a bad choice, there's always a consequence. To sow a bad choice is to reap bad benefits.

Answer 8

Yes, we have the freedom to choose to kill anyone. Free will doesn't justify evil or make evil actions good. On the contrary, it means WE are held responsible to choose what is right over what is wrong. We must also accept the consequences arising from our choices. As Jesus said, "Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come!" (MT 18:7)

Answer 9

In the bible, it shows us that Jesus was against abortion, for abortion is the extermination of life. In Psalms 139: 15, 16, King David says that "My bones were not hidden from you. When I was made in secret, when I was woven in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing, as regards the days when they were formed and there was not yet one among them." This shows us Jehovah, his god, knew him even as an embryo. And although Jesus, and his father, Jehovah gave us the freedom to choose, it is because he is a loving creator, and does not wish for us to be forced, for that would be unloving.
Nevertheless, Jesus, as well as his true followers here on earth (ie. Jehovah's Witnessess), would not get mixed up in any political matter. As Jesus tells us in John 17: 16: "They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world."

Answer 10

If Jesus is for free will, then do you also think he would be for Murder, Rape, Adultery?

No, I cannot Imagine Jesus running an Abortion Clinic. Can you?

Saying you are both pro-Choice and also a Christian, makes absolutely no sense unless you can envision Jesus preforming Abortions.

I can't

Peace!