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| Methodist and Episcopalian ministers lend their support for abortion |
During an encounter He had one day with a group of Pharisees that had challenged his authority, Jesus Christ said this: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)
Christ made that statement in the context of His mission on earth; that He had come to bring eternal life to those who put their faith and trust in Him. But He also taught a universal and unchanging truth: That the One and only true God is all about saving and protecting life. Remember that Allah commands Muslims to persecute and kill those who reject Islam. So it's important to understand who God really is and what His word commands us concerning life.
For nearly 2,000 years, the Christian Church upheld God's word concerning the sanctity of life and the preservation of those who were either defenseless, weak or too infirm to protect themselves against oppressors. However, in recent years, that's changed as a growing number of churches have astonishingly jumped on the "Pro-Choice" bandwagon.
Pro-Choice is a synonym for abortion, and it's also a misnomer. You're either pro-life or you're pro-death. There is no middle ground. Pro-Choice is nothing but a sophistic term that's used to sanitize evil. Thus, any church or para-church organization that claims to promote the Bible as the absolute word of God and yet supports abortion isn't Christian at all, no matter what it says.
Jesus Christ is all about life. Abortion is all about death and destruction rather than about family planning. Those who encourage and support abortion are just as guilty of murder as those who perform that ghastly procedure.
However, Laura Young, a pastor with the United Methodist Church doesn't agree. She not only supports abortion, but she also condemns Christians who want to do away with that barbaric practice. Young skewers the biblical definition of love by claiming that it's hateful to protest at abortion clinics: Christianity, like most faiths, is founded on love. Watching protesters shouting judgment and hate based on what they call religion is horrible. Is that loving God? Is that loving your neighbor as yourself?
What kind of love encourages the murder of those who can't defend themselves? Where does the Bible advocate the slaughter of unborn babies in the name of love? Young condemns Christians who try to dissuade women from getting abortions. When an abortion occurs, both the pregnant woman and the doctor who performs the procedure are guilty of murder. And yet Young labels Christians as haters who try to prevent that from happening. How sad and tragic.
Jeffrey Walton, a spokesman for an organization called the Institute on Religion and Democracy believes that all people of faith should support abortion, and those who don't and protest at abortion clinics are really in the minority.
Here's what he said: As faith leaders committed to justice, honesty, and liberty, we are troubled by the decades-long campaign of harassment against Planned Parenthood and those they serve. Our faiths demand care for those marginalized by poverty and other oppressions (Sic). Faith leaders have supported Planned Parenthood for nearly 100 years because of our shared goals: every person — regardless of income, race, or religion — deserves access to safe, affordable, high-quality health care.
That's high quality bull. Abortion isn't health care--it's murder. And Young, Walton, et al. who promote abortion under the guise of high quality health care and Christian love should be ashamed of themselves. There's simply no place in the church for such an abomination.
The very fact that such evil is tolerated and promoted in the modern church is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul warned that "in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." (1 Timothy 4:1) Only a demonic spirit in the service of Satan would teach that God approves of abortion.
And Paul followed that up with this: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Finally, Christ warned that in the last days, "many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people." (Matthew 24:10-11)
You aren't a Christian if you support abortion. And those who call themselves Christians who support that procedure have fallen away from Christ and have betrayed the unborn who they're commanded by God to protect. Shame on them.
What kind of love encourages the murder of those who can't defend themselves? Where does the Bible advocate the slaughter of unborn babies in the name of love? Young condemns Christians who try to dissuade women from getting abortions. When an abortion occurs, both the pregnant woman and the doctor who performs the procedure are guilty of murder. And yet Young labels Christians as haters who try to prevent that from happening. How sad and tragic.
Jeffrey Walton, a spokesman for an organization called the Institute on Religion and Democracy believes that all people of faith should support abortion, and those who don't and protest at abortion clinics are really in the minority.
Here's what he said: As faith leaders committed to justice, honesty, and liberty, we are troubled by the decades-long campaign of harassment against Planned Parenthood and those they serve. Our faiths demand care for those marginalized by poverty and other oppressions (Sic). Faith leaders have supported Planned Parenthood for nearly 100 years because of our shared goals: every person — regardless of income, race, or religion — deserves access to safe, affordable, high-quality health care.
That's high quality bull. Abortion isn't health care--it's murder. And Young, Walton, et al. who promote abortion under the guise of high quality health care and Christian love should be ashamed of themselves. There's simply no place in the church for such an abomination.
The very fact that such evil is tolerated and promoted in the modern church is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul warned that "in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." (1 Timothy 4:1) Only a demonic spirit in the service of Satan would teach that God approves of abortion.
And Paul followed that up with this: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Finally, Christ warned that in the last days, "many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people." (Matthew 24:10-11)
You aren't a Christian if you support abortion. And those who call themselves Christians who support that procedure have fallen away from Christ and have betrayed the unborn who they're commanded by God to protect. Shame on them.
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