What is your interpretation of this bible scripture.?

Question

Does God approve of abortion?

Hosea 13:15-16

Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.


Hsa 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Answer 1

---No that would not be his way!

*** si pp. 144-145 pars. 12-13 Bible Book Number 28—Hosea ***

12 In the 13th chapter, Hosea sums up all that has gone before regarding Israel’s early promise and Jehovah’s tender care, as well as Israel’s forgetfulness and the nation’s finally turning against Jehovah. Jehovah declares: “I proceeded to give you a king in my anger, and I shall take him away in my fury.” (13:11) But, then, there will be restoration: “From the hand of Sheol I shall redeem them; from death I shall recover them. Where are your stings, O Death? Where is your destructiveness, O Sheol?” (13:14) However, horrible indeed will be the fate of rebellious Samaria.

13 The book concludes with the heartrending plea: ‘Do come back, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled in your error. Seek pardon, and offer in return the young bulls of your lips. Jehovah will show you mercy and love. He will become like refreshing dew to you, and you will blossom as the lily and the olive tree.’ The wise and discreet will understand these things: “For the ways of Jehovah are upright, and the righteous are the ones who will walk in them; but the transgressors are the ones who will stumble in them.”—14:1-6, 9.

--What you are reading is nothing about an approval of abortion by God---by individuals--What you are reading is the consequences upon Israel for their waywardness. The ripping of wombs would indeed be by the enemy.

--These are things that the Israelites reaped upon themselves in the wilderness with Moses, because of false worship & sexual perversions:

(1 Corinthians 10:6-9) “6 Now these things became our examples, for us not to be persons desiring injurious things, even as they desired them. 7 Neither become idolaters, as some of them did; just as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they got up to have a good time.” 8 Neither let us practice fornication, as some of them committed fornication, only to fall, twenty-three thousand [of them] in one day. 9 Neither let us put Jehovah to the test, as some of them put [him] to the test, only to perish by the serpents.”.....
“11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.”

Answer 2

Though - (literally, “when”) he (shall) be fruitful among his brethren Fruitfulness was God’s promise to Ephraim, and was expressed in his name. It was fulfilled, abused, and, in the height of its fulfillment, was taken away. Ephraim is pictured as a fair and fruitful tree. An “East wind,” so desolating in the East, and that, no chance wind, but “the wind of the Lord,” a wind, sent by God and endued by God with the power to destroy, “shall come up from the wilderness,” parching, scorching, fiery, from the burning sands of “Arabia the desert,” from which it came, “and shall dry up the fountain” of his being. Deep were the roots of this fair and flourishing tree, great its vigor, ample and perpetual the fountain of its waters, over which it grew and by which it was sustained. He calls it “‘his’ spring, ‘his’ fountain,” as though this source of its life were made over to it, and made its own. It “was planted by the water side;” but it was not of God’s planting. “The East wind from the Lord” should dry up the deepest well-spring of its waters, and the tree should wither. Such are ungodly greatness and prosperity. While they are fairest in show, their life-fountains are drying up.
He shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels - He, emphatically, the enemy whom the prophet had ever in his mind, as the instrument of God’s chastisement on His people, and who was represented by the East wind; the Assyrian, who came from the East, to whom, as to the East Wind, the whole country between lay open, for the whirlwinds of his armies to sweep over in one straight course from the seat of his dominion.

Answer 3

Yeah, some of this stuff is so strange that it's hard to believe that anyone actually believes that it's all a literal and accurate representation of anything that actually occurred or anything that God actually said. I mean, dashing infants to pieces, children being ripped up, bashing the heads of children on rocks, even God stopping the Sun in the sky so some human beings would have more light to kill other human beings or God taking delight in drowning hundreds of Egyptians(Egyptians are human beings, right? God's children, right? And God delights in drowning them?)

Answer 4

No.
Abortion is killing and what does God command US not to do? Kill. Remember do not put God in that plan, for God is over us and gives us the commands, God can do as HE wills, and He gives and takes away as He pleases and for HIS good. But this does not condone abortion. These scriptures are speaking of God's judgment on Samaria.

Answer 5

I try to answer questions to the best of my ability if I think that the asker truly seeks the truth of God. You are not that person. You very clearly have a high opinion of yourself, and a very low opinion of the truth of the Bible and of God. You seek merely to try to undermine the Bible and the truth inside. Paul surrendered his will as well as his life to the will and service of God, and an unbeliever that lives in unrighteousness such as yourself will never understand the teachings of Paul, which edify the teachings of Christ. I do not judge you. The words from your own mouth reveal what is inside you, and the Word of God judges that, and rightly so. Good day to you.

Answer 6

Old Testament God was kinda into wrath. The New testament brings a kinder, gentler view, but the old-school dude was down with the crazy, so to speak.

For real fun, look very hard at the book of Job. God takes a bet, and simply because he takes this bet, he rips the utter crap out of Job's life. Niiiiice.

Answer 7

Check out this link for a view on the biblical view of abortion:

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/abortion.html

Personally, I find it interesting that, biblically, an infant isn't a person until its one month old.

Otherwise, the bible doesn't mention abortion.

Answer 8

God certainly does not approve of abortion
It is murder

Only God has the right to give life, and take it away.

Answer 9

No God does not approve of abortion.Its talking sinning against God and the repercussions

Answer 10

I think God is in controll. And God will punish those who do not believe in him. He showed it Hosea. So people who say Hell is the grave are foolish.