This was not directed at anyone in particular but rather to the tangent that has been taken about comparing someone who is prolife with someone who also supports capital punishment. On the one hand I agree with the verse that Jesus said "not one jot or tittle of the law will be annulled" refers also to capital punishment while at the same time I agree with the new commandment that we do unto others as we would have them do unto me. If you commit certain crimes I have no issue with a death penalty being imposed, however, we make mistakes and so if that were me I'd want 25 years, a lot of appeals and free legal help to prove my innocence.
There is only one here who conflated pro-life with pro- death penalty. And then claimed Jesus concurred.
He didn't.
Jesus stopped the men of the village from prosecuting the death penalty law against the woman, not the Magdalene as is commonly believed, accused of adultery.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Who was left to condemn her? No one! Neither then did Jesus condemn her. Go and sin no more.
Jesus said, he knew the law said eye for an eye. BUT....I tell you....
When Jesus said, but I tell you, that was his decree that repealed retaliatory justice.
Ignoring scripture in order to claim Jesus is pro- Capital Punishment when he proved he is not is known as, interpolation of scripture.
It's also blasphemy. And the guilty will answer for every word.
Consistency fails when someone is anti-abortion, because they're not pro life when they insist adults are able to be put to death by law.
They don't realize, abortion is a death penalty,by law. Putting a fetus, a baby, to death by law.
To insist the number of pregnancies putting at risk a woman's life is low, but consistently omits proof, isn't proof.
And implying that number is low, is saying what?
They don't commit. They don't state one way or the other if a woman in such a predicament is in their opinion entitled to abort, or not.
If not, they're again, hypocrite, and not pro life. If a woman can die if she retains a pregnancy, the woman's life takes priority. It's that simple.
A lot of untenable nonsense gets spewed when someone wants to argue against a woman's right to choose, while supporting state sanctioned killing of adults by law.
Blasphemous heresy gets spewed when interpolating scripture in order to manufacture a false xhrist the manufacturer invents to be on their side of the blasphemous argument.
And lastly, besides elective invocation of OT scripture when it serves their convoluted hypocrisy and blasphemy, but is then denied as something they did invoke when it becomes inconvenient when having to face their responsibility for invoking the OT in their prior argument, the level of Bible illiteracy on the part of such a one would be staggering if the posting of utter disrespect for the unborn didn't overshadow it.
Argument from emotion and utilizing shock value, fails.
The vulgar disrespect for a babies remains is common on the zealot anti-choice movement.
They claim to respect life, but dance around a question that asks if they've committed their life as they insist other women should in being forced to remain pregnant, by adopting or fostering born life seeking a home.
Such tactics afford the answer regardless. A resounding, NO!
Others life is no one's business. Abortion is legal. When opposed, no problem. Don't have one.
Don't imagine such an opinion need be law. Lives were lost when abortion was outlawed.
I met a male xtian once who in answer to that fact replied, GOOD! They deserve to die for trying to kill their baby.
Prayerfully a psychopath of that ilk is few and far between. Ideally, one of a kind.
When people rewrite scripture to make God in their image and likeness in order to have that false doctrine support their stance on Capital Punishment, while claiming to oppose the taking of a baby's life, but do not one thing to insure quality of life for those born and yet homeless, they're false.
Especially when they support a penalty now that was utilized over 2000 years ago to murder our Savior because a collection of vipers threatened by his living wanted him dead! And too from the time he was born. (Herod)
I'm pro-life and pro-private life.
My opinion has no right to command another's womb unless I want someone's opinion to think itself entitled to command my life's lawful choices.
Examples include those who insist God would never call women to preach because they're women. Corrupting Paul's letters to make their false point. Ignoring the fact it was by one man that sin entered this world and necessitated our needing Salvation from it in the first place. Failing as he did to minister God's words to his wife. And as a consequence caused the fall of the entire human race.
But God would never call a woman to preach because she's female?
After the miserable failure a man entrusted by God to shepherd the first and only woman failed so deeply as to damn the entire human race to be separated from God due to that one man's disobedience?
Laughable, that anyone presume to claim whom God would call to his service. Especially when God said we are not male or female as Christians but are one in him.
There are wayyyyy too many people making God in their image and as what they prefer. Because God as written isn't acceptable to them.
No one who reads scripture believes God is pro-human life no matter what. No one. Because God proved he wasn't by his own divine choice.
Hosea 13:16 (ESV)Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Satan destroyed Job's life with God's permission. Satan took the lives of Job's family but God wouldn't let him kill Job. Just to win a wager with Satan to prove Job's faith would never waver.
How many people did Satan kill, with God's permission?
God drowned the world! And then started over, repopulating it with humans whose Patriarch, head of family, was a drunk! And God is Omniscient.
Face the God on the pages of his word and accept that entirely as creator, as he says, of all things. And that, as he said, predestined all things according to his will and plan!
Don't, and you're not following the God of the Bible.
And to answer my own question put to one whose god is not that, we've given quality of life to 5 born but homeless children. Adopted, fostered and then adopted, at all ages. From nearly newborn to hard to place ages of 12 and 14.
Walk the talk.
Accept the Bible as written.
Face God when he tells us all that he is.
Or, stop promoting a contrived fiction thinking that makes a moral example superior to those targeted for that blasphemy that poses and fails as morally superior.
That is the end of story.
Until such ones as that meet God and answer for every fictional blasphemous word uttered to reword, rewrite, his truth to sustain their contradictory convoluted hypocritical lying politic.
And yes, it's a lonnnnng post.
It was worth my time. Worth yours to read? That's your decision dear reader...or not.
To read or not to read.
Funny how those options are appointed to the Bible as well.
And how many choose not?
We'll see.