An Abortion question, a Christian paradox?

by free2beme 31 Replies latest jw friends

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  free2beme

  I have expressed this question to many of my Christian friends and heard a mix of answers. Each time, they come from the central feeling they have about Christianity, and few come from the Bible's view. Here is the question, in regards to abortion.

  As it is taught in traditional Christianity, to kill a life is to mean you are worthy of death yourself. Depending on your view of Christian punishment from God, that means either eternal death or hell. So by traditional Christian views, those who have an abortion are going to receive punishment.

  On the other hand, Christians also feel that the innocent children have the right attitude to get in to heaven. If a child dies as a baby, or too early in life to make a stand for God, they go to heaven. This must be the case, as Christians do not believe in reincarnation and thus to say the aborted child would receive another chance, can not fit in to their teachings. So an aborted child, by traditional Christian views would be resurrected in to heaven.

  If this is the case. What if a child was not aborted, was born, grew up to become a Hitler, or a Charles Manson and ended up going to hell. Would you not be doing such a soul, a favor to abort it? As maybe these people became what they ended up becoming, because of a terrible life in a unloving household, and would never have been this way and would have received a heavenly reward, had they never been born.

  What is your view?
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  zeroday

  Would you not be doing such a soul, a favor to abort it?

  Do yourself a favor, don't worry about it. There is no god that cares.
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  gaiagirl

  There are some studies which indicate that since Roe vs. Wade, the drop in violent crime observed in many large cities is directly due to the absence of those who would have grown up unwanted and unloved, and turned to a life of crime. I would expect a Christian would deny this, or attribute it to other factors. I would say that, rather than a right to life, every child should have a right to be loved. If a potential parent isn't prepared to give a child that love, then they should choose to not be a parent. Because a life without love is a life not worth living.
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  jaguarbass

  I think every Christian that is against abortion should adopt an unwanted child.
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  Undecided

  What is life? Is it any different for humans than animals? Do humans have some spirit that comes into their body that is unique to the individual? Is life just some electrical or chemical reactions of the brain that is dependant on the body's use of food and air?

  We all hope that life is connected to some God who can re-enact it when we lose it here. Where is the evidence? Faith seems to be the only way for some to live happy and not face what seems to be reality, death ends it all.

  When sperm meets the egg and life begins I have no idea what it means.

  Ken P.

  PS: The biggest question I forgot. Where did the universe come from? Did a God create It, and if he did, where did he come from?

  I think I will go to church today, duh, they all have different ideas too. God, if you are out there, please help me get some new light that will save my soul, whatever that is.
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  bubble

  I agree with zeroday, I don't think there is a god who actually cares.
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  DanTheMan

  A thorny issue indeed, one of the best 'stump the fundy' questions there is. Of course they'll give you *some* answer, but it will likely be lukewarm and noncommital, which is the exact opposite of the "every question has a black and white answer" spirit that pervades every brand of fundyism, so a great cognitive-dissonance creator.
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  free2beme

  I am not questioning if there is a God in this question, as some people responded. I am not a Christian, and I am looking for a view from Christians on Abortion to see how they would feel about this sistuation. It is a hard answer to answer, perhaps that is why no Christian has responded yet. I would like some sort of an answer.
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  zeroday

  There are some studies which indicate that since Roe vs. Wade, the drop in violent crime observed in many large cities is directly due to the absence of those who would have grown up unwanted and unloved, and turned to a life of crime.

  Gaiagirl: You may be refering to the book "Freakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Chapter 4 "Where have all the criminals gone?" Discusses this very point how abortion has stemned the increase of crime because the very children that are aborted would have grown up to become the criminal element.
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  J-ex-W

  My view is: Don't make decisions about things such as abortion based on far-fetched religious reasonings and intellectual loopholes. --Not saying that that's what you're doing; simply saying that some people are, sincerely, trying to navigate such weighty moral questions based on false doctrines and the false reasonings contrived therefrom. Those kinds of quandaries never do get satisfactorily resolved. It's a shame that they wind up focusing on this instead of the real world ramifications and considerations of such a dilemma.