Idiotic Christian Beliefs: God Is Pro-Life Edition
One of the more asinine things that christian "pro-lifers" claim is that their deity is pro-life and, as such, holds human life as eminently sacred, especially unborn human life. As a former christian who, unlike the vast majority of self-identified christians, has actually read the bible in its entirety (an enlightening, as well as vomit-inducing
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After Noah and the flood, you then move on to Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah. However, lets back up and look at chapter 18, to better understand God's seemingly "sadistic" actions as you erroneously describe. In Genesis 18:20-33, the "Lord said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reach me". Abraham, who had been chosen by the Lord for "doing what is right and just" asks God, "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?" We see Abraham plead with God for the righteous lives who resided in Sodom and Gomorrah. He asks, "What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you sweep it away or save the lives of those fifty?" In Genesis 18:26 "The Lord said, 'If I find fifty righeous people in the city of Sodom, I wlll spare THE WHOLE PLACE for their sake." Finally, God says, "For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it [the city].", but unfortunately, there weren't even ten righteous people in the whole city. In His mercy, we read in 19:5, God sends two angels to warn Lot, Abraham's nephew, and his family to escape, but the people of the city were so wicked that they called to Lot "Where are the men [the two angels] who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." Lot says to them, "No, my FRIENDS. DON'T DO this wicked thing." Oddly, Lot then offers his two daughters, but the wicked citizens get even more angry and emboldened, pressuring Lot, threatening to break down the door of his house. The angels tell Lot in Gen 19:14, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city! Take your wife and daughters, or you will be swept away when the city is punished." For the Lord was merciful to them. They were also warned, "Don't look back and don't stop! Flee or you will be swept away!" Instead of obeying this urgent and serious warning, Lot and his family were slow to respond, having grown accustomed to the comforts of a "successful" life in the wicked city, and in Gen:26, "Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt".
Therefore, again we see a merciful God, who grieves over our wicked ways, gives us clear direction, allows us to CHOOSE between good and evil, and warns us there will be consequences. He urges us to flee from evil and not look back, but how does the non-repentant, pro-abortion community respond? How do I respond?
That's all I can write tonight, Ruth. Still have dishes to do and the 5:30 alarm comes too quickly.
I'll write more soon. May the loving God who created you and me, keep us close, invite us back, for He has never left us, no matter how far we have strayed from Him. Let us use the gift of "choice" to make the right decisions in our lives, choosing good, not evil, humbly relying on His grace, mercy, and forgiveness.
Posted by Abortion Hurts for a Lifetime, from the INS community
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So here we see a man bargaining with a god, asking him to do the right thing. What does that tell you??
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