“What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?”
April 23, 2023

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“What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?”
Hot Takes
AV First
4/23/23
Pastor Ed Carlson

In Todays world the truth has become….

1) Anything you want it to be.
2) Anything that will make you feel better.
3) Anything that will cosign on your behavior.
4) Anything that is trendy and will get the applause of the world.

- Line up with God’s

for your life.
- Line up with God’s in all you do.
- Line up with God’s as you deal with others.
- Line up with God’s when faced with integrity issues.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV)
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?

To fail in

for the weakness and of people is to fail to reflect the about their and the truth about God’s .

To

to bear witness to the truth, in all its clarity and potency, is to fail in compassion, because have a need for truth. It is as necessary for the of the as food is for the .

If life is not

from the to the tomb…then no life is sacred at any point in its existence…which then to those who are in control dictating not only when life begins…but when can end as well.

Argument #1: They’re not even really a

yet?

Argument #2: What’s wrong with

people the ? Women should have the to choose to have an .

Argument #3: Does

from rape or incest justify abortion?

The right to

cannot be revoked simply because the child’s biological father is a rapist.

Abortion is not the path to

for victims of sexual violence.

Argument #4: What if the woman’s life is in

, is abortion justified?

Argument #5: What if the preborn child is given a

prenatal diagnosis and is likely to die at birth or be disabled, shouldn’t abortion be acceptable then?

Truth doesn’t change according to our ability to stomach it

.

1. God has absolute

over human life.

Romans 14:7-9 (ESV)
7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

1st Corinthians 6:19-20 (ESV)
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

2. The

teaches that human life is different from other types of life, because human beings are made in the very of God.

Genesis 1:27 (ESV) 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

We are not just a bunch of cells randomly thrown together by some impersonal force. Rather, we reflect an eternal God who knew us before we were made, and purposely called us into being, and breathed His breath into our lungs.

3. The Bible teaches that the

in the womb is truly a human child, who even has a with the .

Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)
13 For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

Galatians 1:15 (ESV)
15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace.

4. Scripture repeatedly

the killing of the .

Amos 1:13 (ESV)
13 Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.

Psalm 106:34-39 (ESV)
34 They did not destroy the peoples,
as the LORD commanded them,
35 but they mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
36 They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons;
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus they became unclean by their acts,
and played the whore in their deeds.

5. The Bible

that God is a God of .

Abortion is the opposite of justice. In fact it is actually a reversal of justice. It is a destruction of the helpless rather than a rescue of the helpless.

Romans 3:23 (ESV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23 (ESV)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.