Abortion: Termination of pregnancy Euthanasia & End of Life choices

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Human Life and God

Morality issues of Life:Abortion: Termination of pregnancy

Euthanasia & End of Life choices

God Looks at Human Life"Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.” Genesis 9:5-6

God Looks at Human Life"Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.” Genesis 9:5-6

Genesis 4:11, Exodus 20:13

Thou Shalt Not MurderRomans 13:9, James 2:11

Is Abortion Murder?

Defining Murder: “In the image of God He made man”

When is a human “made” in the image of God?

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb? Job 31:15

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb? Job 31:15

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb

Isaiah 44:2

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?“……The LORD has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name” Isaiah 49:1

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;”

Jeremiah 1:5

Unborn ChildrenWhen is Human Life “made in the image of God”?

God “forms” man within the wombMan is “in the image” from the womb

Unborn ChildrenWhen does a body have a soul?

His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. Psalm 146:4

Unborn ChildrenWhen does a body have a soul?

And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni

Genesis 35:18

Unborn ChildrenWhen does a body have a soul?Death is when the Soul and Spirit departLife is when the Soul and Spirit arriveWhen life begins, a soul is present

Is Abortion a SinAccording to the Bible:

Murder is taking life with a soulWe have a soul when we are aliveAbortion sheds human blood

Abortion and Early Christianity

“You shall not murder a child by abortion.“ (Didache 100AD)

Abortion & Early Christianity“You shall not murder a child by abortion.“

(Didache 100AD)

Abortion & Early Christianity“You shall not kill either the fetus by abortion or the new born"

(Letter of Barnabas, 125AD)

Abortion & Early Christianity"We say that women who induce

abortions are murderers, and will have to give account of it to God."

(Athenagoras 150 AD)

Abortion & Early Christianity"...we are not permitted, since

murder has been prohibited to us once and for all, even to destroy ...the fetus in the womb (Tertullian 180AD)

Worldly Morality:It is not a human life Estimation of life by:

AgeGenderContributionCommunicationIntelligence

Worldly Morality:It is not a human life“Should I not pity Nineveh….”

Jonah 4:11 "Behold, all souls are Mine….”

Ezekiel 18:4 “God so loved the world…..”

John 3:16

Worldly Morality:It is your body, your choice Selfishness Hedonism (worship pleasure)

Worldly Morality:It is your body, your choiceOr do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Abortion is ImmoralityAccording to the Bible:

Abortion is Murder Many are deceived today

Only worldly justifications for abortion

From Immoral to MoralHearing the Word of God

Romans 10:17Believing the Divinity of God

Mark 16:16Confession of Jesus Christ

Romans 10:9Repentance of Immorality

Acts 2:38Baptism to Change Morality

Acts 22:16