Wow that’s refreshing…a Christian thinking…loving God with “all his mind!” I’ve just been reading WHY PRO-LIFE by Randy Alcorn (we passed out this book to everyone on Sunday…you can get them free on the table to the right when you walk in NWF) and have been so blessed by the clear, persuasive, poignant, pragmatic, logical and truthful presentation of why being pro-life is so “rational”. Rational, that’s a word we’ve given over to the world. Can Christians be rational? Absolutely, truth is not only rational—it is ultimate reality. Even when the world cannot grasp God’s truth, because of blindness, it is nonetheless the most rational (real) information possible.
Here are a few excerpts from Alcorn’s pro-life book:
· WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EGG, SPERM, EMBRYO, AND FETUS? “It’s scientifically inaccurate to say a human embryo or a fetus is not a human being simply because he’s at an earlier stage of development than an infant. This is like saying that a toddler isn’t a human being because he’s not yet an adolescent….something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.” (page 33)
· IS THE UNBORN APART OF THE WOMAN’S BODY? “The unborn child also has a genetic code, but it is distinctly different from his mother’s. Every cell of his body is uniquely his, each different from every cell of his mother’s body…a child may die and the mother live, or the mother may die and the child live, proving they are two separate individuals.” (page 37-38)
· WHAT DO THE PICTURES TELL US? “When a pro-life candidate ran television ads showing aborted babies, people were outraged…The question we should ask is not ‘Why are pro-life people showing these pictures?’ but ‘Why would anyone defend what’s shown in these pictures?’ The real concern about pictures of unborn babies isn’t that they’re gory, but that they prove the accuracy of the pro-life position…And if abortion isn’t killing babies…then why are these pictures so disturbing?” (page 45-46)
· WHAT MAKES A HUMAN LIFE “MEANINGFUL”? “With no hype at all, the fetus can rightly be called a marvel of cognition, consciousness and sentience….Scientists have already detected self-awareness in the second trimester. The extraordinary capacities of the preborn children have been well documented by scientific studies for years. By early in the second trimester the baby moves his hands to shield his eyes from bright light…responds to sounds…covers ears at loud noises…experiences REM sleep, indicating that he’s not only sleeping but dreaming. Can we say that someone capable of dreaming is capable of thinking? Undoubtedly, later abortions kill a sentinel (self-aware), thinking human being…(and) early abortions are no better than later ones. A living child who would’ve had a name, family, and life will now have none of these.” (page 49-50)
And…there’s so much more…I am only on chapter 8! It’s so true that most of us, including me, have not been well educated in the pro-life “rational” truth! Please read…you will be so amazed. Christianity is truth…thinking God’s thoughts after Him. It’s also grace…embracing God’s forgiveness when we fail at following His truth.
Let’s think…and let’s embrace both Truth and Grace!
trey
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Trey, great blogs,so much truth and love in both. The first blog shows the love of a christian for the unsaved, and the second shows the love for the unborn! Both in the same condition, did you plan that?! God did...He is so good, even when he speaks through us he is orderly : ) We are so hopeful at the first hint of new spritiual growth in a person, they are beginning to see, feel and understand differently,(like the Japanese students)the thoughts of snuffing out that process before it's a fully established redeemed life is equally gory. I hope many of us will continue to pray for the work God is doing in forming the beginnings of their stories, as well of those of the physical babies. Great Blog!
ReplyDeleteI used to carpool with my boss to work when I was at NASA. It was a 40 minute commute (as most are in Houston). We had a great chance to do many things during that time: sit quietly and enjoy music (he had great taste in music), talk about our work or just talk. When we decided to just "talk", that is when a window opened up to talk about abortion. It came up because one day I told him I was pro-life. I wasn't entirely sure what that meant to him or even to me, all I knew was that I was totally against killing babies. It was and still is abhorent and evil an act as I can think of for our society to embrace so freely.
ReplyDeleteThose 40 minute commutes became awesome discussion about pro-life versus pro-choice, the latter being his position on the matter. Imagine a two people stuck in a car in horrible traffic discussing abortion. I wish I had Randy Alcorn's book back then, but where we ultimately left off and rarely spoke about it again was this: I could not start my thinking on the matter where he started. Basically, he started on a woman's right to choose and I could never start there as much as he wanted me to... I could not have that be my jumping off point.
Not when the death of innocents was at stake.
So we agreed that unless we had the same "jumping off point" our desire to convince each other of the validity of each others point would be useless. What I learned from all of that though was that I must stand firm where my "jumping off" point was and it would be respected. I can disagree all I want with someone else at that point because it does not trump what I consider the greater good in the discussion.