Our current culture is divided on the abortion issue, but what does the Bible say. It never specifically uses the term abortion, but still it is clear what God’s view of abortion is. Abortion is murder. It is the killing of a human being who is created in the image of God. There are many Scriptures on this. Here are a few.
Humans have value because God created man in His image.
Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Psalm 119:73a – “Your hands made me and formed me”
God formed every human being.
Psalm 139:13-16 – “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” You can’t get much plainer that that!
Job 10:11-12 – “You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have a granted me life and steadfast love.” (Sinews means a piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to bone; a tendon or ligament.)
Matthew 1:20 – “But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.’”
Isaiah 44:24 – “This is what the Lord says the Lord - your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: ‘I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by me’”.
Jeremiah 1:4-5 – “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Isaiah 49:1b – “Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name.”
Children are a gift from God.
Psalm 127:3-5a – “Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are sons born in of one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them!”
God values life.
Genesis 9:6 – “Whoever shed the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God has God made man.”
Exodus 20:13 – “You shall not murder.”
Exodus 23:7b – “… Do not put an innocent or honest person to death, or I will not acquit the guilty.”
Deuteronomy 30:19 – “… Now choose life, so that you and your children may live...”
We are to speak up for the preborn.
Proverbs 24:11 – “Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.”
Proverbs
31:8
– “Speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves.”
A women who support abortion say it’s my body and I should be able to do with it what I want. Well, it’s really not her body. God created it and it belongs to Him. Your body is twice owned by God. He made it and He redeemed it when He died for you on the cross. “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body – 1 Cor. 6:19b-20.
There are over 98% of abortions performed to women who simply don’t want to have a baby. Less than 2% of abortions are from rape, incest, or the mother’s life being at risk. A child can survive outside the womb at just 21 weeks gestation. Abortion is one of the biggest money-making industries in our nation. Since Roe v. Wade decision in effect 1973, there have been 63 million abortions in this country alone.
Jesus affirmed his position on the value of life when he came into the world through a young unwed teenage girl named Mary. Those who are for abortion say it’s not a baby until it’s born, but in Luke 1:39-45 Mary’s preborn child is recognized as a baby – “…And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb”. Notice “the baby” leaped, not a fetus or glob of tissue.
Our humanity is given to us, not earned. For those who say a woman gets to decide when life is a life is playing God. Only God has that authority.
If you have had an abortion, Jesus forgives just like He forgives any other sin you have committed. Jesus already paid for your sin on the cross. Don’t live in guilt and pain. God can use your story to help another woman and perhaps save her child.
Principle: Only God has the authority to give and take life.
To read more about life vs choice see https://devotionsbylv.blogspot.com/search?q=abortion
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