QUOTE (Eli @ Oct 26 2008, 09:43 AM)

Damo, please consider all that I have to say here. Try hard not to let emotions cloud the issue also.
Killing an animal in sacrifice or for food or clothing is completely different than killing a human for any reason.
1. God told Noah in Genesis 9:1-6:
"9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
This requires giving birth to live babies and raising them into adulthood, not killing any babies.
2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
This means that God has given animals to humans as gifts to be used for food and other necessities. Humans are not to be killed and used as such, shich is what the Abortion industry does to the human babies they kill. This is gross sin in the eyes of God
And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
This makes it clear that God absolutely will hold people and even animals accountable for any murder of another human. No such value does the Bible place on the life of an animal. God is about to explain why this is so.
6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
God here commands the earthly, civil authorities to institue capitol punishment for murder. The reason for this is to value the life of humans. How?
All humans are created in the image of God as God's very children. To kill a child of the lving God is the highest sin against God other than willfully rejecting God's mercy through the sacrifice of Jesus Himself.
This is clearly a pro life passage of scripture. It commands mankind to fill the earth with people. God NEVER warned man not to overpopulate the land. That idea is another satanic, abortion promoting lie.
This passage clearly differentiates between animal life and human life. It places to lives of animals into the hands of humanity and even goes so far as to offer mankind the choice to kill and eat animals.
This passage places a universal commandment on all mankind not to murder. Murder is to be fairly punished by execution as a deterent, a life for a life.
17 “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. 18 Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. 19 If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. 21 Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death. 22 You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.” Lev 24:17-23.
To say that no one is doing anything about abortion exept to curse it is just uniformed. I, for one, have promoted a culture of life here in America by having four children. I am also a poor man. We are showing the world how much of a blessing it is to have children and be in a family as opposed to chasing careers and partying our life away.
Many Christians adopt children that are not wanted by the mother or the mother is incapable of caring for the children. This trend is part of the pro-life cause. One aspect of the pro-life cause is amending the laws of our nation to make it easier to adopt a child than to pay to have it destroyed and killed. Adoption is and extremely expensive and lenghty, difficult process that only people with a lot of income can even attempt. The devil and his abortion activists have worked hard to keep adoption nearly impossible.
God has also made it clear that a baby in the womb is a genuine human life.
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.
Psalm 139:13-16
God is intimately involved with our formation i nthe womb. That time is God's most creative season in our entire lives. To invade the womb and violently end this process is extremely detestable inthe sight of God.
22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out (premature birth), but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm(essentially an abortion), [3] then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." Exodus 21:22-25.
God here shows His value upon the lives of the unborn. Any harm that comes upon the children as a result of human irresponsibility is demanded to be punished with equal justice, even if it was unintentional as a result of men fighting. God shows here that he wants all people to take responsibility to protect the lives of the unborn. God also equates the lives of the unborn with the lives of adults here.
It is also uniformed to say that pro-life Christians are unaware of the difficult circumstances many young pregnant women find themselves in. I know that here in America, if you open a phonebook up and look up "Abortion," you usuaally find at least one, Crisis Pregnancy Center. There are quite a few of them in my area.
These centers do all that they can to educate pregnant women about pregnancy, the life in their womb, abortion methods, and post-abortion problems. They provide fuill color, audio enhanced ultrasound views into their wombs. They can have prophesional, color photos taken of their unborn child's face. They can hear the baby's pulse and see its hands, feet and face. They Centers also can make arrangments for the baby to be places in foster care or an adoptive home. They provide diapers, food and clothes for the newborn. They provode information and assistance for pre-natal care, child care and any church or government assistance available to needy mothers in the area. There is a lot that is done to promote life and deter abortion. Some centers also share the gospel with these women. They are trained not to abusively pressure women either.
God commanded for the Israelite armies to kill people because it was a war that was being fought, not human lives taken in the name of convenience, sexual misconduct or "choice," like most all abortions. Goliath was challenging God to fight him, that is why he was killed. That is not cold blooded murder either.
The Canaanites were massacered for many reasons.
1. God knew that the particular Canaanites that he ordered to be completely wiped out were at a stage in socioty where they were beyond any hope of repentance. THeir socioty was utterly corrupt and sinful. TO wipe out the entire group of them was mercy to the small children who would actually go to heaven rather than be raised to be worse than their families were in the first place and end up in hell. Genocide would actually stop the evil that the people were doing. It was alos a mercy to the innocent children in the socioty.
2. If the Canaanites were left alive and were not attacked, they would either
A. Attack and wipe out the Israelites soon or
B. They would draw the Israelites away from God and the Messiah would never have come. God will always preserve a Jewish remnant of faithful people no matter the cost of h sinful human lives or any other cost.
3. God simultaneously used the massacres of certain Canaanite communities by the Israelites to spread a famous reputation of how great and powerful the God of the Israelites was in contrast to the Canaanite's gods of their lands. This would serve to open the other people's hearts to have interest in, and a healthy respect for the God of Israel.
45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 47 and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.” 1 Sam 17:45-47.
high Eli
i am sencing this and we have burried a child its not nice to have to lay your own child that once had a heart beat and then try to explaine this to your surviving child where his brother is and why we had to burry him
my concern also is back yard clinicks that are set up by unproffesional guys who dont take the right care a proper dr would with the proper set up
hear in Australia in certain citys laws have been passed and in Melbourne a law has been passed to prottect the mother
what i am seeing when it comes to king david and bethsheba god did not spare the child in her womb
i dont support guys who blow abortion clinicks or kill the staf working in these centers but ther are pro life christians who have taken it to the next leval where they do support the death of the staff and the guys that blow up abortion clinicks
i dont not picket or do i stand in a line with the rest of the pro life supporters to were a mother or single women is put to shame
my focus is also on the mother and the choice made by her dr spare the mother or let the mother die and spare the child in her womb
i have met men who have lost their wifes but the child has survived the guys i met are from poor countrys i have read storys only last year my fiancee did a funeral for a family this guy lost his wife
i feel it should be up to the family not pro life supporters saying its wrong and we should not hide behind the bible or quote scripture that we are familur with this happens a lot in this forum to were if we want to be rude with out attacking or putting some one down we use the scriptures we know so well to make a point hit home i dont do this or do i let my emotions take over i am human and i am ussing what god has given me to work it out my self
we dont come down on the women in my fiancee country who do make the choice to abort a child we dont shame them and use biblical verses to make the point sink in
i am not attacking you eli i know where you are comming from brother i am against what i see in this forum and i have worked out who the trouble makers are i dont like it when a member is attacked for no reason
as i stated their are men who fail to support there partners and i am anoyed how some guys use the women in my fiancees country and when told that she is pregnant they do the bolt thes young girls and women are from poor familys they have no social security like we do in australia eli they have to raise their child up with out the aid of welfare
i understand what you are saying but the way i see it humans were killed and i see it from both sides gods side and my human side
as i said i have pasted what tsth has left hear and i wil be showing it to some god fearing women i know who have had abortions when it comes to this forum eli i am noticing certain people get attacked for no reason and when it comes to what tsth has left hear in comes the support voice has a post set up to were he is know being attacked and i have read what one member left hear good job thinking i need to listen is it fair that we attack a member on this fourm al due to voice putting a post up that could help some one but when it comes to abortion out comes the support saying i agree good job
if my wife was given a choice and told she would die but the child in her womb would live i would end the childs life to spare my wifes life with out hesitation or turning to a pro life supporter for answeres
i do not support fanatics who do as i said blow up abortion clinicks or kil innocent staff members no need to shame a mother or a young women its there choice not a pro life supporters choice pro life supporters have not one me over or will i support the pro life movement when i know there are fanatics that tend to harm staff members
God bless from Damo