The Truth on Abortion

7/14/2014

"Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder. A great many different motives may lead to an action of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act of despair, performed in circumstances of extreme human or economic destitution and misery, the guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual. . . . All these considerations must no doubt have a quite decisive influence on our personal and pastoral attitude towards the person concerned, but they cannot in any way alter the fact of murder." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from his book Ethics (New York; Macmillan, 1965) 175-6.

Learn about Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's pro-abortion policy and position here.

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Didaskalos link

7/15/2014 08:40:58 am

As Dan has pointed out on the Exposing the ELCA website's "The ELCA and Abortion: THE FACTS" page [ http://www.exposingtheelca.com/uploads/2/4/2/8/2428588/factsheetonelcaabortion-final-21.pdf ], "Every other Lutheran church body in the United States (the Missouri Synod, the Wisconsin Synod, the LCMC, the NALC, and so on) is strongly pro-life and opposed to abortion except in the extremely rare case when an abortion is an unavoidable by-product of medical procedures necessary to prevent the death of the mother."

Even if the ELCA weren't so rife with other heretical doctrines, its self-funded health plan's payment for abortion for any reason up to 20 weeks alone should prompt an exodus from the denomination by any Christian who doesn't want to participate in the shedding of innocent blood.

That's not a hyperbolic observation. Dan notes on the page linked above, "As long as a congregation's pastor is on the ELCA health benefits plan, its members are helping to pay for elective abortion coverage, even if they are making no other financial contributions to the ELCA. ELCA members, as well as visitors to ELCA churches who put money into the offering plate, have the right to know that some of their offering money will be used to pay for elective abortion coverage."

For a multitude of reasons, it's long past time for confessional Lutherans to leave the ELCA. Get into a Christian denomination that honors the Lord of the Church, reverences His Word, and strives to preserve the lives of little ones created in His image and known by Him before they were born. [Psalm 139]

http://www.lcms.org/life -- LCMS Life Ministry

http://hopechurchmn.com/news/newsitem.aspx?newsid=1481&newsitemid=8888 & http://hopechurchmn.com/files/hopeluth/files/SermonNotes/2013%20Sermon%20Notes/Handout%20012013.pdf -- "Is it Just A Choice?"

http://blogs.lcms.org/2013/gods-gift-of-life-1-2013 -- God's Gift of Life [Matthew Harrison, LCMS President]

http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=WKGKL7NX -- Life Choices [Pastor Tom Brock]

http://www.lutheransforlife.org -- Lutherans for Life

7/17/2014 12:24:15 am

Written in 1999, Peter Leithart's "Attacking the Tabernacle" explores the language of Psalm 139 to show the sacredness to God of preborn babies and the abomination to their Creator when they're aborted in the name of "choice." The ELCA would do well to pay heed.

". . . Psalm 139:13 has served as a slogan for the anti-abortion movement, adorning banners and picket signs from Boston to the Bay and everywhere in between. And the text is entirely appropriate to the sermon. One can hardly imagine a clearer affirmation of God’s care for the unborn than the simple words of the Psalm: “For Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother’s womb.” It simply will not do to limit this sentiment to the Psalmist, as if he alone were “fearfully and wonderfully made.” The Psalmist sees God’s care for him as a specific case of the universal truth that God is the inescapable God, who formed us at the beginning and who has always already arrived before we get to our end. If the Psalmist is a fabric woven by God, so are we all. Opponents of abortion have drawn the unavoidable conclusion: If God takes such care in forming unborn children, how dare we treat fetuses as blobs of disposable tissue?

"Further meditation on this text, however, leads into different and deeper waters, suggesting that abortion is not only slaughter on a grand scale, but something even more terrible. The Hebrew word used by the Psalmist for “woven” ( raqam ) is a comparatively rare word in the Old Testament, employed almost exclusively in texts that describe the curtains and veils of Israel’s wilderness tabernacle. The screen that stretched across the doorway of the tent, for example, was the “work of a roqem ” (Exodus 26:36), as was the curtain at the entry to the tabernacle courtyard. Unlike the more elaborate and valuable hosheb -weave, roqem weaving did not include figures of cherubim and the like, but in contrast to cruder oreg material, roqem used colorful, finely woven linen. To say that an unborn child is “ roqem work” is to say something about the cunning skill of the Weaver and about the beauty of his fabric.

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"Psalm 139, then, is picking up on a known thread of imagery when it compares the formation of an infant in the womb to his being “woven” like a tent curtain. In the womb, the Lord weaves the tent that the infant will “wear” until he puts it off at death. With its allusions to the roqem work of the tabernacle, the Psalm goes further, implying not only that God has made the infant in the womb, but also that the infant is being woven into a dwelling for God. Abortion attacks not only a creature of God but a house of God. The abortionist’s instruments pierce through the unfinished roqem curtains and tread on holy ground. We are talking here not only about slaughter of the innocent but about sacrilege, a direct attack on “space” claimed by God. That is the most serious offense possible. Paul’s warning hovers ominously over our nation: “If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy.”

"When we have left in tatters the tents God wove for Himself, how shall He dwell among us?"

Free Bird (Kandy)

8/13/2014 11:48:22 pm

It so sad when so called Christians are Pro Baby Killers !! The evil one has tried to destroy humanity from the very beginning ! One day these men and women will learn the truth from God !! On that day Shame will fill their hearts for eternity! SHAME and eternal REGRET !!!! We must pray that some will have a change of heart before death ! We must fight for the unborn children !! We must be their voice !! We must remember all the ones lost to abortion !! Oh Father in heaven please FORGIVE us !!! In Jesus Name !!!Cleanse , Deliver ,Heal and Restore us to Your Eternal TRUTH ! AMEN !! your sister in Christ Kandy Smith (real name)

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