If the religious believe that every soul has a purpose to fulfill and god knows the purpose/gives the purpose, and everything that is meant to be will be and should be...then why is it hard to imagine that perhaps it is meant (by god) that a person has an abortion? perhaps it (the abortion) is part of the plan of the path of life that your god has created? perhaps there is a reason behind it. why can't the religious think of it this way?
So people have free will..but if you are religious then this free will is still governed by gods path for you and for the world at large. So if abortion is part of free will...then it is still the path chosen by god, no?
Anyway yeah, i'm not religious, but i never understood why the religious don't think of it this way.
plese no bashing. I am merely asking why this is not accepted as a possibility by the religious. respectful answers only please.
2007-04-11 00:24:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question, but you misunderstand the nature of God. Yes God is soveriegn, but that doesn't make us puppets. You mentioned free will, butit seems that you don't really accept it.
God knows all things, that is true. He knows who will have abortion and who will not. He also knows who will rape a woman and who will not, but just because He knows doesn't mean ha He either deceed it or accepts it.
He knows because He can see the beginning from the end. It is like watching a movie. Just because you know at the end of a movie that the lead role is going to die doesn't mean that you willed it to happen.
The Bible is very clear on the fact that God thinks highly of the human race, even above all other living creatures that He created. Killing an unborn baby flies in the face of that love. Thanks for listening!
2007-04-11 00:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by justin singleton 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am very religious but I believe that a woman who has already been around and has lived and learned and become a real person is far more important than a few unpredictable cells. and yes it can be part of the plan. And I think it is very judgemental and therefore very irreligiousas well as pompous for anyone to assume it is their business to save someone from hell if that is where they are headed just for wanting to save their own lives which is what abortion is. It makes me sick for these arrogant pompous people to believe that any woman doesn't go through great personal agony in this PRIVATE decision.-You are a very astute and intelligent person and quite frankly any nasty answers will do no more than show the world who is not very christian or religious. Too many people think they are the shepherd and forget they are the flock.
2007-04-18 19:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by Melinda M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many religious people do not understand that Soul enters a body AFTER it has taken its first breath; so a fetus is not Soul.
And yes, whatever you do is part of the big plan; provision had been made for it, no matter how bizarre or what others might think. It is morally wrong to exclude abortion from free will, and even worse to lord one's opinion over others.
2007-04-18 21:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by RAFIU 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While we do have Free will to choose good or bad, we still recognize that there are consequences for all choices just like Adam And Eve had. Also God is the giver of life and that is why he has determined that it is wrong to murder, abort, or misuse any life, including its blood. If we understand that we were created by God, then we wish to obey him as not only Thanks for life, but also we recognize his authority to make rules for us. And really is a rule such as Do not have an abortion or commit murder really inconvenient to us so that we have to question or even choose to disobey.-----respectfully stated
2007-04-18 13:58:18 · answer #4 · answered by Tom J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WAAY b-4 I turned my attention towards God,I knew abortion to be wrong. I thought of it as murder in the womb. Then I HAD to have 1; medical reasons- to dangerous for the baby & myself. After I meet the women in there having the procedure, I realized some women do have to do this...NOT ALL. I then changed my line of reasoning to "it's wrong to have an abortion in lieu of BIRTH CONTROL".
Then I came into the truth, and my reasoning is sound.
It's murder,no matter what the circumstances.
2007-04-18 10:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since 1975 over 1 MILLION babies have Been murdered each year by abortion in the United States alone!
30 MILLION to date just in the United States
We are turning away from the worst Holocaust mankind has ever witnessed.
How dare anyone point a finger at any other group (religious or not) for mass murders when we have these numbers on our hands !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-11 00:33:48 · answer #6 · answered by williamzo 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why would God send a baby to the world to be instantly aborted? God has a purpose for every single life, and he wishes that life to be fully spent for his glory, not to be taken by abortion.
When a woman selfishly decides to take the life of the child she is about to bear, she is killing that baby. The Bible clearly states that "Thou Shall Not Murder". Taking the life of a baby that will be born into the world is murder. God counts it a sin. And it shouldn't be accepted.
If the mother really cared about her well being, and the well being of the baby, she would be unselfish and bring the baby into the world. There are plenty of adoption agencies. God has a plan for the child, and the mother is wasting it. Plain and simple.
2007-04-11 00:28:45 · answer #7 · answered by May 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I'm a Taoist, I believe that if you think it will change your path in a way you don't want to go you have that right to change it. However many Christians believe in predestination, so it really shouldn't matter to them either way.
2007-04-18 18:28:39 · answer #8 · answered by Mega 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the six commandment says thou shall not kill nowhere in the bible does God encourage us to kill our unborn as a part of some major plan . yes he gives us free will ,but we must all be held accountable for our actions
2007-04-18 14:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by jasminebudd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever thought you have to come here in order to go to heaven.
The soul comes here and goes back to heaven.
The abortion issue is one of the major circulation issues it circulates around and around.
I for one, thank God that I never had to make a decision about that.
I am sorry for those who did.
2007-04-11 00:30:47 · answer #10 · answered by chris p 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋