any of us? whether we be christian, muslim, pagan, or atheist? every now and then i get some quack who gives me a quote from the bible saying how none of us are good, that we are all inherently evil, and that is why we must accept jesus as our savior. these are the same people who call abortion murder. so my question really breaks down to this. if we are all inherently evil, what wrong are we doing in killing anyone? abortion ensures that the fetus will not sin, hence a free ticket to heaven? the baby was going to eventually die any way. why submit it to a life of torture if all it has to look forward to is a realization that it is evil, and thus must make a choice whether or not to go to heaven. if we are all born with original sin, then if we are not born, we don't have the stain of original sin and thus we get to heaven. if someone told me they were taking 80 yrs. off my life so that i would spend all of eternity in heaven, i'd gladly make the choice to die. who wouldn't?
2007-11-28 07:33:56 · 11 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion is divisive.
2007-11-28 07:37:26 · answer #1 · answered by S K 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Point 1: I am a Catholic Christian, and I don't think anyone is inherently evil. people can choose to be good (with the grace of God) or evil. if we were inherently evil, we wouldn't be able to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
Point 2: Killing people is wrong. everyone knows this. it's called the 'natural law'. even if you're not religious or you're an atheist, you know in your heart that killing is wrong.
Point 3: if you take that 'the baby was going to die eventually anyway' logic, why arrest murderers and serial killers? why not just wipe out everyone on earth because they're all going to die eventually?
Point 4: if babies truly were intrinsically evil (which they aren't), they would NOT go to heaven. they'd go to hell without ever having a chance to accept Christ.
Point 5: we are all born with original sin, but that doesn't mean it originates at the moment of birth. we have it before then, ever since we were conceived and came into existence. killing the baby just means that the stain of original sin cannot be washed away. thus, you're certainly not doing the baby any favors by killing him/her.
Point 6: if you really believed this train of thought, you'd have committed suicide by the time this answer gets posted. (btw, please DON'T).
hope this helps. have a good day and God bless.
2007-11-28 15:48:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A great blessing of life is what we can give, how we can bless others, what we can contribute to our neighbor. Aborted children, although they may go straignt to heaven, have missed out on the great joy of helping others in this journey we are all making. Trading in your 80 years would eliminate those opportunties - opportunities that will shape your eternity. While we are here for a short time, this brief time will make an eternal difference.
Are we really that bad - maybe so, but it's the best we have and the best God has to make a difference in the world.
2007-11-28 15:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by Todd C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe we are born into original sin. A baby is free from sin when it is born. and aborting a baby is still killing a human life whether it is born or not, it has a potential of being a human being.
2007-11-28 16:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the world, and world history.. and say that man doesn't have an evil heart. What other animal destroys everything on such a great scale? It isn't the apple off the tree..it's the fact that man can be the most heinous of all creatures.
2007-11-28 15:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when you kill a person,that's called murder. You can't decide who lives and who dies. A person also can't say that the baby that's beinng born, will be an evil one; and therefore lets kill it. Only God knows the fate of all people, not people knowing the fate of others.
2007-11-28 15:46:28 · answer #6 · answered by Paul L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that the evil exists just in the Devil's mind ... and of course He is able to realize his project and to use us in the way he likes, yet we have a choice between being 'that bad' or being not 'that bad'.
2007-11-28 15:44:37 · answer #7 · answered by Ivory33 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible tell us to cry when someone is born and rejoice when someone dies. Praise the LORD.
2007-11-28 15:39:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We are like "filthy rags" in His sight..........Yet, He loves us all enough to sacrifice His Son so that we might live.......How many of us would do that for another?
2007-11-28 16:50:28 · answer #9 · answered by White Dove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize the TORTURE they put the babies THROUGH? There is no guarantee that a normal healthy baby will have a healthy life just as there is NO guarantee that a sick or ill baby will have a horrible life.
One thing they do is put saline solution in and it burns the babies.
They also suck their body parts and brains out.
Another thing they do is something that causes their skin to turn dark black.
All of this with no pain medication.
There is NOTHING to justify MURDER.
I call it as it is....MURDER and Child Sacrifice to the demon Molech.
Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20: 1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Jeremiah 32:34But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
36And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
Some Atheist is going to FIND something to attack in this.
2007-11-28 17:32:56 · answer #10 · answered by kickindevilbutt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋