Give me the book, chapter, verse, and translation where the Bible specifically declares that for a woman to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy is forbidden.
Do not give me a round-about logical construct based on your personal interpretations of an ancient language and culture that you don't remotely understand. If you've got nothing, just admit that you oppose abortion because you personally don't like it, and stop pretending you've got a mandate from God.
2006-12-14 05:35:51 · 37 answers · asked by abram.kelly 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Using "Thou shalt not kill" is a little bit silly when you consider all the times when God says it's okay to kill, like stoning a girl to death for having sex before marriage. Or when God tells the Israelites to invade some godless neighbor and kill every man, woman, and child. So, claiming that as your justification would be a perfect example of interpreting an ancient culture you don't remotely understand. Thanks for following my instructions so precisely.
2006-12-14 05:50:07 · update #1
Exodus 21:22 is about causing a woman to lose her child - the accusation needs to come from the woman or her husband. It has nothing to do with a woman voluntarily terminating her own pregnancy. Saying this is about abortion is pure idiocy.
2006-12-14 05:58:53 · update #2
You are correct. When the Bible says "thou shall not kill" then you must look at what "kill" meant in the Bible. I have checked every reference to the words kill and murder in the Bible. At no place in the Bible do those words refer to a woman removing her own fetus after rape or incest or any other reason. The only acts of abortion outlined in the Bible do not use the words murder or kill for the acts of the woman. "When men strive" and cause an abortion, the penalty is less than that for murder. When a priest causes an abortion as a penalty for an adulterous wife, it is not called murder or killing. This even though it is obviously the intent to "rot the loins" of the woman.
Of course the reason God does not call abortion murder is because He uses abortion Himself and taught abortion to humans. To think abortion is murder is to think that God is a murderer.
It is my belief that when a fetus is aborted there is no death of a human soul. I believe in an all powerful God and a loving God. He would not cause abortion if it were the killing of a soul.
2006-12-15 09:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by Give me Liberty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It does not.
It depends on when the religion believes that the process of "ensoulment" takes place.
See people saying "thou shalt not kill" miss the important part that would give you a full answer to your question.
Roman catholics have the process beginning at the moment of conception.
Reformed jews have it beginning upon birth.
Under a religion, and religious theory, every living bieng has a soul, thus under religious logic, you cannot kill something that doesn't have a soul. Thus it is ok to kill an arab or a metrosexual but it is not ok to kill a hot blonde with big **** who goes both ways.
This is part of the religious logic, is it a pile of crap, well yes, private pile wasn't stacked so high but you asked so I added my $5, now send me a check.
2006-12-14 05:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Life begins at the point of conception!
God has created all things!
Thou shalt not kill!
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the Womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the Womb.
Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the Womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth itself;
Jeremiah 20:17 Because he slew me not from the Womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always be great with me.
Isaiah 49:1 Listen , O Isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the Womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
From these few scriptures it is clear that GOD knows us BEFORE we are ever born. God also tell us NOT TO KILL.
Psalm 10:8 ..Murder of the innocent...
Psalms 94:6...Murder ofthe fatherless...
Matthew 19:18 THOU SHALT DO NO MURDER
The intentional planned taking of a life is MURDER and God Condemns those who commit murder to Death. 1 John 3:15
Matthew 22:13 Mattthew 25:41 Luke 16: 22,23,24
Luke 13:3 Acts 3:19 Acts 17:30 Ephesians 4:4,5,6 Romans 6:1,2,3,4
MURDER IS MURDER NO EXCEPTIONS!
Kings James Version of the Holy Inspired Word of God.
Christian in Pa.
2006-12-14 06:10:16 · answer #3 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Number 6 of the 10 commandments, Thou shalt not kill.
2006-12-14 06:34:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You are saying that the woman is voluntarily sticking scissors in her body and chopping up her child to end its life? Like she's performing her own abortion? Because if not and she's electing another human being to kill her child, then in fact, you are losing your own argument.
2016-11-01 10:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by Samantha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having the ability to reproduce and bring life into the world is a gift from god. There are other options besides abortion. If you really want to learn what the bible states about abortion, adultery etc...pick up a bible do some reading for yourself and stop asking other people.
2006-12-14 06:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by Kokolicious06 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
It's in the Ten Commandments. If you haven't read them then give it a try. Exodus. Thou shall not kill. It's actually a misinterpretation of the Bible. The original wording is thou shall not murder.
Having trouble understanding the distinction between killing and murder? If you've swatted a fly you've killed. In fact, just about every living human being has killed. Life requires death to sustain life. We must kill plants and some people kill animals to survive. Otherwise known as a the food chain.
Murder is distinctly different. Murder is a choice to kill when it's unnecessary to sustain life. It's not self-defense or self-preservation. It's bloody murder. That's what abortion is...simply murder.
Pro-choice or reproductive choice advocates are simply murdering innocent little babies. How sick are they? They want convicted murderers to go free (see trial attorneys like John Edwards) and to murder innocent little babies and then play word games. The bottom line is that people who support pro-choice/abortion are simply Satanic.
Some go to church. They even sometimes call themselves Christians. But the Bible tells us that "we will know them by their fruit." It's not about words, it's about actions. But since they like to use words I suggest they simply repeat the following and begin wearing clothing that let's other people know "I am Satanic." That way we can avoid them alltogether.
2006-12-14 05:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Exodus, Book 20, Verse 13.
2006-12-14 05:40:22 · answer #8 · answered by Justin H 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS GIVEN TO MOSES BY GOD HIMSELF.....
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Taking a life is taking a life and there is no gray area. Not to say that we have the right to judge anothers heart because only God knows the truth in a persons heart.
2006-12-14 05:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
God created man to be the highest form of life on earth (Gen. 1:26-28). Human life is very precious to God. In fact, it is so precious that God Himself instituted the Death Penalty for anyone who takes the life of another (Exo. 21:12; Num. 35). God places great value on human life!
2006-12-14 05:54:41 · answer #10 · answered by long leggs 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋