To: PROLIFE who wrote (17351 ) 6/10/1998 3:30:00 PM From: PROLIFE Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 39621
Chapter four continued......... Job, in referring to the creation of man, acknowledged, "I also am formed out of clay",(Job 33:6),but only after he had exclaimed concerning his inner self: "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life" (v.4) There is a sacredness and dignity connected with any human life. The dismembered parts of a fetus, the scrapings from the pregnant uterus, are more than mere "tissue". Listen through a stethoscope to the distinct heartbeat in a mothers womb and tell yourself there isn't a living person inside!! There is only one book written thousands of years ago that could so graphically address the evilness of modern man!To His natural people, Israel, the Lord often spoke of His care and protection of the fatherless in their society (see Psalms 10:14, 18; 68:6; Hosea 14:3). He promised blessings upon those who shared His care for orphans(seePsalm 82:5; James 1:27). The problem in that day was children who had no father. In ours they have no mother! How does YAHWEH ELOHIM feel about the "motherless"? How applicable this scripture is to our day: ""when you were born, your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor were you rubbed with salt or swaddled with bands. No eye had compassion or took pity on you to attend to any of those needs; but you were thrown out in the open field with no appreciation for your life on the day you were born. But as I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood: Live!"" (Ezekiel 16:4-6, Berkely) To see God's view on those killed in the womb does not require a fanciful imagination. We could paraphrase it partly this way: "When you were aborted no eye had compassion or took pity on you...but you were thrown in a plastic garbage bag with no appreciation for your life...but as I passed by you ...I said to you in your blood: Live!" chapter four will conclude with the next post...............