These are the proof texts that I supplied the fellow who professed to be a pro- choice Evangelical, using an Internet concordance:
A propos of my earlier question about reconciling your faith and your pro-choice stance:
From the RSV,Psalm 139:13
"For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb."
Job 31:15---"Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?"
Ecclesiastes 11:5---"As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything."
Isaiah 44:2---"Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshu'run whom I have chosen."
Isaiah 44:24---"Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--Who was with me? --"
Isaiah 49:1---"Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name."
Jeremiah 1:5---"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Luke 1:15 (speaking of John the Baptist):"...for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb."
Luke 1:41---"And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit"
Luke 1:44---"For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy." |
