CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – In all my years going to church, only once have I heard a sermon on abortion. It was in a Baptist church where I was just visiting. The minister said it is sinful that a baby is safer after it is born than in its mother’s womb. Some in the congregation said a loud ‘amen’. Others who disagreed, walked out.
Church-going Christians know this unwritten rule: in most churches, and in many entire denominations, abortion is a forbidden topic.
That should not be. There are more than 100 passages in the Bible that refer to God creating us from the moment of conception.
In Jerimiah: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you”
The Psalmist writes, “My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me.”
In Isaiah: “Thus says the Lord, who formed you from the womb: “I made all things; I alone stretched out the heavens, and spread out the earth by myself.”
I know that my religious views can’t be forced on others, even in the abortion debate. I must convince a mostly secular world that abortion is wrong.
Some people say this fight will soon shift to the 50 state legislatures. That’s only part correct. This fight is within the human heart. We are told what is created by God is holy. And for those who think the right to terminate a pregnancy is THE critical rights issue of the day, I have a challenge for you. Stand before me, and your fellow citizens, and God almighty. Tell us that you are completely certain that what you are extinguishing is not a human life. If you are intellectually honest, you cannot. And that’s why we ought to choose life.
I’m Chris Conley
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