You couldnt be more wrong, brother. I sincerely believe every single word of The Word of God, The Holy Bible. Abortion is a sin. And I will not shy away from rebuking someone on this issue, or on any other issue. Abortion is a sin, but that doesn't mean we should make a law against it. God did not call us to impose His law on other people, He calls us to obey His Word and preach His word. He does not call us to impose His law, or any other law. If you want to impose morality on people, then why are you imposing part of God's laws and not others? That is absurdity. Impose all of them, or impose none of them. But He didn't call you to impose anything on anyone. He wants you to love Him, obey Him, and preach His Word. He did not call you to impose His law on other people. I am going to say this one more time... in case you missed it, brother: He did not call you to impose His law on other people. OK? Love Him, Obey Him, Preach His Word, Rebuke a brother who needs rebuking, stand firm on The Word of God, call sin SIN, and do not waiver. But do not try to impose morality on people. God Himself does not even do that. He wants people who willingly, voluntarily love Him and obey Him. Not by force. Never by force. Again, I am being redundant on purpose, He did not call you to impose things on other people. In fact, quite the opposite: "Do not resist an evil person", But Love God, obey God, and give your life in peaceful service to The Lord, allowing evil people to do evil things as Jesus does and as God does. Jesus did not impose laws on people, who are you to impose laws on people? I could go on and on.. but I am not sure you will get it. So I will just leave you with this. Abortion is a sin. It is not ok. And we need to tell people that abortion is a sin. and we need to discourage all forms of sin. But we are not called to impose God's law on other people, we are not called to outlaw sin. That is for God to do.
Love you brother
Deuteronomy 28:20 The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
If He promised to take a Hebrew's life for that man disobeyed God, what makes you think He wouldn't do the same to unbelievers? That's why we should warn them of what they're getting into, it doesn't matter if they believe or not. Then it'd be up to them to see if they wanna listen to God or just ignore Him.
Proverbs 24:23-25
23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
How could we be light if we tell them nothing? We should ask of them to take our advice into consideration! If they still refused, then our work was done, but that doesn't mean we should wait patiently till they approve abortions. We should even let journalists hear us speaking in favor of life! Not doing anything against abortion is like telling God that His Son Jesus could have been aborted if Mary would have agreed upon that. Then where would our only hope of salvation have gone in such a terrible scenario? Did you forget that Eve was told that a seed would come to save us from our fallen state? If she had refused to bear children, then humanity would have ceased to exist and both Adam and Eve would have been cast to hell without hesitation. Bearing a baby should be done in remembrance of that Glorious Day when Our Savior was born, thus fulfilling prophecies and leading us to God the Father through Him!
1 Timothy 2:13-15
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
15 Notwithstanding
she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Emphasis and italic are mine, obviously. And nope, it doesn't say anything about being saved by aborting for any motive. :happy:
So we men do have something to say concerning women that might bear children! We should not let women get deceived by winds of doctrine! And recall what the Apostle Paul told Timothy earlier in that chapter
1 Timothy 2:3-4
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Probably a rebuke might not work on worldly people, but they still need to learn the truth! Who knows if by letting them hear what God has to tell them about abortion, some of them might get saved!
It's impossible or it seems to be impossible to get approved laws that only reflect Our God's Will. Even so Paul also told us that we should pray for the authorities! We still can go and see if we might get a law approved that respects the Lord's Will. It doesn't matter if we get just one at a time, we must influence them as much as possible just as the world tries to do it (the wrong way, of course).
So - young /older men -- act responsibly -- have respect for the woman -- whatever her age. Unless You are ready to accept responsibility of fatherhood in 9 months or less, Don't express yourself sexually with a female.
Abstinence is really easy. Simply Don't.
I wish you were right about this, but people in their fallen state won't agree with you... unless they have gone through some harsh experience before...
So I guess it'd be better to tell them that if a man and a woman truly love each other, they should marry and have as much sex as they need to. At least it'd be more realistic than thinking they really want to observe any sort of abstinence, including tobacco and alcohol and so on.
If I was in authority I would not illegalize abortion but find effective ways to regulate and limit it.
Now I'm GLAD to know that you're not an authority for you'd have just sold out your faith in no time by justifying abortion.