Does the Bible condemn abortion? I realize I may be over my head when it comes to the interpretation of scripture. But I have been troubled by comments that I heard recently regarding what the Bible has to say about the morality of abortion, so I felt compelled to write something.
What started this was that the staunchly anti-abortion Republican candidate in the recent Alabama senate race had been accused of sexual abuse of teenage girls when he was in his 30s. Predictably, the Democratic candidate had stated that he was pro-choice. One of the voters interviewed before the election stated that he would vote for an accused of pedophile over a man that he knew would approve the murder of millions of unborn children. He added that he was a Christian and that the prohibition against abortion was “biblical.” Biblical?
Monday, December 18, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
VANITY OF VANITIES
Hands down, Ecclesiastes has become my favorite book of the Bible. Of course, I don’t believe it has a great deal of competition. It’s not perfect, but In my view it has the most to say about the fundamental human condition. In addition, it provides some practical advice for dealing with our existential circumstance. In that sense it is the most modern of scriptural texts. But I didn’t always feel the way about Ecclesiastes as I now do.
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