August 8, 2024 • 57 mins
Most Americans want legal access to abortion. It is likely one of the issues that will determine what politicians get elected—as many politicians today say that unless you have a moderate position when it comes to abortion it is virtually impossible to get elected—even conservative Christians.
Abortion is not just an issue—it’s the issue. Yet far too many Christians have embraced the new paganism of our times, and our ways have become detestable to the Lord. For decades now Americans have been sacrificing our children on the altar of hedonism. Simply put—if you are pro-choice, you are pro-murder—full stop.
Hank was so compelled by the way that abortion has been discussed in our culture today that he has devoted the entirety of this teaching edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast to discussing abortion and why it is the most important issue of them all.
Please see the following related Web resources:
How do we annihilate A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N arguments? https://www.equip.org/bible_answers/how-do-we-annihilate-a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n-arguments/
For further Bible Answers please see The Complete Bible Answer Book: Collector’s Edition: Revised and Expanded (2024). https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resources-the-complete-bible-answer-book-collectors-edition-revised-and-expanded-2024-hup/
The Roots of Planned Parenthood https://www.equip.org/articles/the-roots-of-planned-parenthood/
Margaret Sanger: “No Gods, No Masters” https://www.equip.org/articles/margaret-sanger-no-gods-no-masters/
Abortion is not just an issue—it’s the issue. Yet far too many Christians have embraced the new paganism of our times, and our ways have become detestable to the Lord. For decades now Americans have been sacrificing our children on the altar of hedonism. Simply put—if you are pro-choice, you are pro-murder—full stop.
Hank was so compelled by the way that abortion has been discussed in our culture today that he has devoted the entirety of this teaching edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast to discussing abortion and why it is the most important issue of them all.
Please see the following related Web resources:
How do we annihilate A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N arguments? https://www.equip.org/bible_answers/how-do-we-annihilate-a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n-arguments/
For further Bible Answers please see The Complete Bible Answer Book: Collector’s Edition: Revised and Expanded (2024). https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resources-the-complete-bible-answer-book-collectors-edition-revised-and-expanded-2024-hup/
The Roots of Planned Parenthood https://www.equip.org/articles/the-roots-of-planned-parenthood/
Margaret Sanger: “No Gods, No Masters” https://www.equip.org/articles/margaret-sanger-no-gods-no-masters/
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
He Welcome to another teaching edition of The Hand Unplugged Podcast,
a podcast that is committed to equipping God's people to
always be ready to give an answer, a reason for
the hope that lies within them, with gentleness and with respect.
I do want to say at the outset of this podcast,
if you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, please write, please review.
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It helps a lot. I want to start this teaching
edition the hand Unplugged Podcast by also mentioning that I
had a late night last night. I didn't get a
whole lot of sleep, so I decided to take a
nap this afternoon. But that didn't go very well because
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I kept thinking I need to talk about an issue.
And as I was thinking about the particular issue, I
kept fighting with myself, thinking, this is an issue that's
been talked about so much, It's been debated so frequently.
People probably don't want to hear about this. So I
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wrestled with this. I couldn't sleep, and I finally decided,
you know what, I think God is directing me to
do this particular podcast on this particular subject, and it
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happens to be the subject of abortion. I don't know
why this is in my mind I don't know why
I'm being led to do this. Honestly, I don't know
the details. All I know is I feel very compelled
to walk into the studio today and to talk to
you about this subject. Perhaps, well, perhaps it's because I
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hear politicians say that unless you have a moderate position
with respect to abortion, it's virtually impossible to get elected
in twenty twenty four in our current version of America.
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Think about that, if you do not take a very
moderate view on this issue, probably you cannot get elected.
Why because more than more than fifty percent, a majority
of Americans want a high degree of tolerance when it
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comes to abortion. So what is abortion? Well, abortion is
one of those issues that is going to determine who
runs this country. And I've oftentimes said that the ballot
box is necessary, and people talk about how this is
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the most important election in American history. But the ballot
box is necessary, it's not sufficient because the culture is
ultimately impacted and determined by all kinds of social institutions.
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Think about the educational institutions, or the entertainment institution or
the environmental institutions. These institutions determine the fabric of American
society that is not just American society. So this is
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a transcendently important issue, the issue of abortion, that is
determined in many ways apart from an election. And I
would say this about abortion, and this is a strong
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statement to make. It's not just an issue. I think
it's the issue. And that is a big statement to make,
and I will try in this podcast the best of
my ability to underscore the reality of that statement. I
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also want to point out that it's important for you
to recognize that when a woman gives birth, she does
not merely give birth to a body. She gives birth
to a body soul unity. Indeed, that is precisely what
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it means to be human, the tapestry of life. And
let's start with this, the idea that the tapestry of
life begins with a single thread, through a process, the
process of incredible precision. A microscopic egg in one human
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being is fertilized by a sperm cell from another human being,
and that process not only marks the beginning of a
brand new life, it also marks the genetic future that
that life will have. Think about it. A single fertilized
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egg is a zygo about the size of a pinhead,
contains chemical instructions that would fill more than five hundred
thousand printed pages, and the genetic information contained in that encyclopedia,
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if you will, will it determine the potential physical aspect
of this developing human being, aspects from height to hair color,
and in time, that fertilized human egg divides, if my
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memory serves me correctly, divides into the thirty trillion cells
that make up the human body, and that includes some
twelve billion brain cells that form more than one hundred
and twenty trillion connection synapses or connections. So when we're
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talking about the complexity of this thread of life and
the human being that's produced, we're talking about a human
being that is fearfully and wonderfully made well. With that,
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by way of prologue, let me lapse into something else,
and maybe that is to talk a little bit about
a historical perspective. Now, not taking this perspective historically from
the embryonic stages of American history, but let's talk about
biblical history of the One of the verses that comes
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to mind is this verse. I think it's in kings
where they sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire
and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes
of the Lord, and in that process they provoked him
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to anger, to sacrifice their sons and the daughters in
the fire. And in that process of sacrificing their sons
and daughters, they provoke the King of Kings, the Lord
of Lords, to anger. So for hundreds of years, the
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Lord would warn the Israelites, he'd do it through the prophets.
But there came a time when the warning ceased because
it had become too late. The acts of God's judgment
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was ready to fall. Darkness descended upon the promised land,
the land of the Promise. The people of Israel became slaves,
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that became the slaves of the mighty Assyrian, the pagan
Assyrian people. And although the tribe of Judah to the
south had miraculously survived the initial onslaughter of the Assyrians,
they somehow blithely managed to ignore the lessons of history.
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In fact, again I think it's Kings, But second Kings
tells us that a has the King of Judah, walked
in the ways of the kings of Israel, and he
even sacrificed his son in the fire. In other words,
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he followed the detestable ways of the nations that the
Lord had driven out before the Israelites. The nation of
Israel had indeed become a mirror reflection of the pagan culture.
It had become just like the cultures that surrounded it.
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True prophets continued, now I'm talking about true prophets, not
false prophets, but true prophets continued to warn God's people
that their wickedness would inexorably lead to destruction. But unfortunately,
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there their words fell on deaf ears. The rulers of
the land had become so corrupt, so corrupt that they
even hired false prophets. Why because they wanted to hear
what their itching ears wanted to hear. They wanted the
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prophets to tell them what they wanted to hear, not
what they needed to hear. And so finally the inevitable occurred.
I'm sure most of you know the history. The acts
of God's judgment fell and Babylon leveled Jerusalem, and the
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people of Judah were driven out of the land of Promise. Well,
why is that relevant? Because today America, like ancient Israel,
is turning a deaf ear to the lessons of history.
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We have repeatedly violated God's commendments. We've violated God's commandments
with impunity, as though well, we could do that and
get away with it. And we have failed to hear
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the warnings of His prophets in our own culture. We
have embraced the new paganism of our times. And if
I may say this, our ways have become detestable to
the Lord. We've forgotten his commandments. Rearn when the Lord said,
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when you enter the land the Lord your God has
given you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways
of the nation's there. Let no one be found among
you who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire,
who practices divination or sorcery, who interprets omens, who who
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will engages in witchcraft cast spells, or who is a
medium or a speeritist, or who consults the dead. Well,
because all of these things are detestable to the Lord.
And because of these these detestable practices, ther God will
drive out those nations before you. And then I think
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this comes from Deuteronomy, but the text says you must
be blameless before the Lord your God. A quote has
stuck in my head for years and years and years.
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It is a quote by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer. He
warned us that abortion would be the watershed issue of
our era. I have the quote in front of me.
He said, of all the subjects relating to the erosion
of the sanctity of human life, abortion is not a keystone.
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But abortion is the keystone. It's the first and crucial
issue that has been overwhelming in changing attitudes towards the
value of life in general. Let me read that quote
one more time. Of all the subjects relating to the
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erosion of the sanctity of human life, and there are many,
abortion is the keystone. It is the first. It is
the crucial issue that has been overwhelming in changing attitudes
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towards the value of life in general. Well, Schaeffer's warning
has tragically fallen on deaf ears because for more than
two decades, a lot longer than that, actually, now, we've
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been sacrificing our children on the altars of hedonism. I
don't even know where I thought of that two decades,
because it has been a lot longer than that. But
more importantly than the time span itself, the acts of
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God's judgment is laid to the root. And I say
that in the context of another warning. This is always
stuck in my head. Again. I have the quote in
front of you. It's by John Paul. The second I
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think summarize the matter very succinctly when he said, a
nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope. Well,
two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ himself warned us that
the time will come when you will say, blessed are
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the barren women, the wounds that never bore, the breasts
that never nursed. Think about that. These are the words
of our Lord. And the present day abortion holocaust drives
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these words home in dramatic fashion. Dramatic fashion, particularly when
you consider the statements with the leading spiritual and secular
leaders of our present era, Beverly Harrison. I don't know
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if she still is, but she was a professor of
Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary, a theological seminary, and
she said this infanticide is not a great wrong. Talking
about infanticide is not a great wrong. I do not
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want to be construed as condemning women who, under certain
circumstances quietly put their infants to death. Another quote Esther Langston,
a professor of social work at the University of Nevada,
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Las Vegas. She said this, what we are saying is
that abortion becomes one of the choices. And because it
becomes one of the choices, the person has the right
to choose whatever it is, whatever is best for them,
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whatever is best for them in the situation in which
they find themselves, be it abortion.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Keep the baby, adopt the baby, sell the baby, leave
the baby in a dumpster, put it on your porch, whatever,
because it is the person's right to choose.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So the phrase is no longer choice today that that
phrase is still used, but the operative phrasing now is
a woman's reproductive rights. And again, think about that in
the context of this quote. You can do whatever you want,
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whatever's best for you in the situation.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Keep the baby, kill the baby, adopt the baby, sell
the baby, leave the baby in a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Et cetera. Another quote that I wrote down, this is
from Mary Calderon. She's a doctor. She's head of the
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, or
at least was at one point. She says, we have
yet to beat our drums for birth control and the
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way we beat them for polio vaccine, we are still
unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics.
Even though this is not a partial truth, but she said,
this is the exact truth. And then, of course there's
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Margaret Sanger. She's the birth mother of planned parenthood, and
she famously said, and this is on the canvas of
my consciousness. I don't have to look at the quote
on a piece of paper. She said, the most merciful
thing that a large family can do for one of
its infant members is to kill it. One other quote,
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and this is from a Nobel Prize laureate. You probably
know his name, James Watson. What do you know his name?
Because he was the co discoverer of DNA. He said
this because of the limitations of president detection of present
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detection methods, most the Earth defects are not discovered until birth. However,
said James Watson, a Nobel Prize laureate, if a child
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was not declared alive until three days after birth, now
we're talking about infanticide. The doctor could allow the child
to die if the parents so chose, and save a
lot of misery and suffering. So if the baby isn't
precisely as you want the baby to be in fanticide.
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The comes the conclusion, and I think maybe even more
frightening is that it's now legal not only to abort,
but also to carve up murdered babies and to use
the carvings for fetal tissue research. If you're pondering this
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horrifying reality with me as I speak, remember something else.
The present day holocaust is government funded. That means that
you and I we're footing the bill, We're paying for
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the carnage. And make no mistake, choice advocates, including the
Congress of the United States and the courts, are really
not friends of children. America's unthinking submission to their twisted
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arguments is moving us progressively towards social genocide. The movement's
own label pro choice is a twisted deception, a deception
that covers up a nationally sanctioned holocaust, a holocaust in
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which the right to choose to kill a child now
reigns supreme, well supreme over the baby's human rights, over
the rights of a parent of a pregnant miner, over
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the rights of the baby's father, the mother's right to
accurate information about fetal development and the negative consequences of
an abortion, the rights of a society to protect all
of its members, no matter what their social status might be,
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whatever their economic situation might be, or even physical limitations,
which leads me to ask the operative question, and that
question silient for this handk un plug podcast is the
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question what is abortion? What are we talking about here?
Because those who continue to fight legislation restricting abortion are
in reality not pro choice rather than they are singularly
pro murdered. That's a mouthful, but it's important to say
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because while the rhetoric serves to camouflage the carnage, abortion
in the final analysis is the painful killing of an
innocent human being. And let me go over each one
of those words. I've done it many times in the past.
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I say it's painful because it is painful for the child.
The methods employed involve burning, involve smothering. This is distasteful,
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but I've got to say it dismembering, even crushing, So
it's painful. That's also killing. Why is that? Because from
the beginning, that which is terminated fulfills the criteria necessary
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for establishing the existence of biological life, and that includes metabolism,
it includes development, it includes the ability to react to stimuli,
and includes self reproduction. So it's the painful killing of
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an innocent What do I say an innocent I say
innocent in that a preborn child deserves protection rather than
capital punishment. So it's the painful killing of an innocent
human being. And again I say human being in that
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the child that is killed is the offspring of human parents.
And never forget this, that child has a totally distinct
genetic code. This truth, it's not something I made up.
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This truth that abortion terminates the life of a human
being is substantiated by science. So let me quote some
very revered scientists, doctor Matthew Roth, hyphenated Dame. She's a
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principal research associated at Harvard Medical Schools Department of Medicine.
And again, I don't know if this is still the case,
but I've used this quote before. Let me use it again.
So again, this is a principal research associated at Harvard
Medical Schools Department of Medicine. It is scientifically correct to
say that an individual human life begins at conception. It
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begins at conception when egg and sperm joined to form
the zygote and this developing human always is a member
of our species in all stages of its life. And
then French geneticist Jerome Lejeune, he once bore eloquent testimony
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to the truth of what doctor Matthews Ross's remarks entailed.
And he did that in a sworn statement to a
United States subcommittee. Here's what he said. This again is
Jerome Lejeune, a French geneticist. He said to a United
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States Senate subcommittee. Quote, to accept the fact that after
fertilization has taken place, a new human being has come
into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion.
The human nature of the human being from conception to
old age is not a metaphysical contention. It is plain
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old experimental evidence. Let me read that one more time.
To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place,
a new human being has come into being is no
longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature
of the human being from conception to old age is
not a metaphysical contingent. It is plain old experimental evidence.
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And maybe this is the best quote of all. Doctor HEIMI. Gordon,
a professor of medical genetics, a physician at the prestigious
Mayo Clinic. His summary says it all because he's using
the perspective of science when he says, I think we
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can now also say that the question of the beginning
of life, or when life begins, is no longer a
question for theological or philosophical dispute. Why because it is
an established scientific fact. He goes un to say, theologians
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and philosophers may go on to debate the meaning of
life for the purpose of life, but it is an
established fact that all life, including human life, begins at
the moment of conception. Since science has demonstrated that a
preborn childish human, and since all human beings have transcendent value,
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it follows that taking the life of an innocent human
being should be unthinkable. While an embryo does not have
a fully developed personality, it does have full personhood from
the moment of conception. You didn't come from an adolescent.
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That's a misnomer. You once were an adolescent. You didn't
come from an embryo. You once were an embryo. And
long before science substantiated the truth that that abortion is
the painful killing of an innocent human being, the Psalmist
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in the Scriptures, summarized the view of Sacred Scripture. If
you haven't memorized these words, let me let me recommend
that you do. The Psalmist said, for you created my
inmost being. You knit me together my mother's womb. I
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praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works
are wonderful. I know that full well. My frame was
not hidden from you when I was made in that
secret place, When I was woven together in the depths
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of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All
the days ordained for me were written in your book before,
before one of them came to be. These are not
the words of a fundamentalist. These are the words of
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sacred Scripture, the words of the Psalmist, the words of
King David, the quintessential King of Israel. We should take
them seriously, particularly in light of the fact that both
science and scripture cooperate the view that abortion is the
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painful killing of an innocent human being, and therefore it
is incumbent upon Christians to do everything in their power
to halt the spread of this enormous evil in the land.
There indeed many fronts on which our battle must be waged. Ultimately, however,
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lasting change only comes when the hearts of people are transformed,
because when the heart is transformed, the behavior is revolutionized
as well. And because of the transcendent imports of this issue,
many years ago, I developed an acronym. Appropriately. The acronym
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is abortion ab R t io N, and I did
that it serve as a memorable tool to help you,
as a believer, annihilate not a human being, but annihilate
abortion arguments. Remember, however, the goal for me and hopefully
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for you, is not the ability to win an argument,
as I started out saying at the beginning of this podcast,
it is to use your well reasoned answer to the
argument of an abortion advocate to serve as a springboard,
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to serve as an opportunity to share the message of
life and light. So let me go through each one
of those letters. I develop these acronyms mostly for myself.
Now I also develop them for you, But it's so
that I can remember, you know, I have a grid
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by which I can remember the arguments and therefore communicate
them wherever I am. The A in the acronym abortion
stands for adoption. If you watch the view you're very
familiar with Whoopi Goldberg or one of the ladies of
the view. She employed this adoption argument when she suggested
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that abortion rights advocates would would take pro lifers much
more seriously if they were willing to adopt babies slated
for abortion. Now, that's the skin of the truth stuffed
with a lie, and the fallacy or the lie becomes
obvious when you put it into different words. Let me
put it into different words. How about if you won't
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adopt my babies, don't tell me I can't kill them.
The B in my abortion acronym represents biblical pretexts, a
text without a context of a pretext. Pro abortionists routinely
use biblical pretext to retain some semblance of religiosity while
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at the same time espousing the radical planks of the
pro abortion movement. Let me give you a classication point.
That's what's known as the argument from breath, and the
way the argument goes is something like, because Adam was
not a living soul until God had breathed the breath
of life into him. A child does not become a
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human being until he or she begins to breathe. Well,
that is a nonsensical argument, but it's used all the time.
And to dispense with this argument is quite simple. Simply
say Adam was inadant, inanimate before God breathed the breath
of life into him. But a preborn child, on the
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other hand, is a life from the moment of conception.
So it's the form, not the fact of oxygen transfer
or breath, that actually changes at birth. So let's see,
we got the A and the B. The O in
abortion stands for the opium effect. And this is kind
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of a little play on words, but clever code words
are the opium of the pro abortion lobby. Why because
they're specifically designed to dull human sensibilities to the horror
of what's taking place with abortion. And probably the best
example of this is the moniker planned Parenthood. That it's
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the quintessential example because the positive ring of the words
masks a horrifying reality, and that reality is that to
abort a preborn child is to terminate a life. No
one said it better, actually, than the birth mother of
Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. She once famously pontificated that the
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most merciful thing a large family can do for one
of its infant members is to kill it. I happen
to have a large family, so that really strikes home
for me. And that kind of killing is positively repositioned
as pro choice, a pro choice prerogative. The preborn children
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terminated are indelicately rendered well fetuses, and pro life advocates
are profanely recast as as social extremists. So if you
take a pro life position in our culture today, you're
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not just pro life as opposed to being pro choice,
you are a dangerous extreme missed. That's the argument, that's
the rhetoric, and that's why politicians have caved in. So
where are we ab Oh are rape and incest? So
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they are reminds me of rape and incests because this
is this is one of those conundrums that people face
all the time. What about rape and what about incense?
I mean, this is an emotional argument that usually wins
the day. So to annihilate arguments that abortion should be
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allowed in cases of rape and incest is obviously a
very difficult task. Why because the emotion of the argument
often precludes serious examination of the merit of the argument. Now,
though every case of rape and incest is horrific, you
have to underscore that you can't minimize that. But though
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every single case of rape and incest is horrible, unthinkable,
you cannot hope to remove the pain by compounding that
horrendous pain with murder. In otherwise, two wrongs don't make
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a right. The very thing that makes rape and incest
evil likewise makes abortion evil, because both involve the brutal
dehumanization of an innocent human being, creating the image and
likeness of God. So now we're at the tea. The
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tea reminds me of a word, a significant word, the
word tolerance. And this is important because tolerance is, no
doubt the first and greatest commandment of the pro abortion lobby.
Its essence is forever memorialized in a phrase that's repeated
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over and over again, called a refrain. Don't like abortion,
then don't have one. Just don't impose your morality on me. Now,
at first, blush the mantra sounds eminently tolerant. But think
for a moment, reflect for a moment. We oftentimes don't think,
we hear, we hear these statements thrown out, and we
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don't even think, We don't examine, But think for a moment, Consider,
for a moment what this entails and you immediately recognize
the flaw. Imagine someone in the interest of tolerance, applying
the exact same reasoning to rape. Don't like rape, don't
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ripe anyone, just don't impose your antiquated morality on me.
And we do well to remember I said this many
many times over some forty years in this studio. Tolerance
with respect to personal relationships is a virtue, but tolerance
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with respective truth is travesty. The I and the abortion acronym.
And by the way, I have this in the Complete
Bible answer Book Collectors Edition, Revised, Updated, expanded. Him is
brand new, just came out recently. It's available to the
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Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. You can check it
out on the webit equipped dot org. You can write
me at Post Office box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina,
zip code two eight two seven to one. So this,
this acronym that will help you remember how to recognize
the arguments and then deal with the arguments, is in
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that book. But we're at the eye, which stands for inequality.
Simply put, the inequality argument posits that a woman forced
to carry her baby to full term could not compete
equally with a male counterpart in the workplace, and as
a result of that, she must be provided the latitude
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to abort. That's sort of the inequality argument. Let's carry
this inequality argument to its logical conclusion. If you did,
the inequality argument would apply to the abandonment issue as well.
So imagine the absurdity of arguing that in order for
a woman to compete on an equal basis with a man,
she should be afforded the opportunity to not only abort
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a preborn child, but also to abandon a preschooler. It's
so important to be able to draw these arguments out
to the logical conclusion, as opposed to just hearing them
and you know, buying into the SoundBite, which oftentimes is
as I mentioned earlier, that's kind of the truth stuffed
with a lie. So now we're at the O. The
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oral abortifationis. And this may sound like a mouthful, but
it's a very important mouthful. And I'll tell you why.
And the Dragons of Eden. You all know Carl Sagan,
I mean, he's beyond famous. He argued that a first
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trimester abortion does not constitute the painful killing of a
human being, but rather it's the termination of a fish
or a frog. And of course he was wrong. I've
already sort of alluded to that earlier in this podcast.
But an emerging embryo does not have a fully developed personality,
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but he or she does have full per personhood from
the moment of conception. That's not a theological argument, it's
not a philosophic it's plain old experimental evidence, and so
it's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of
experimental evidence, as I just said. And thus the abortion
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pill in the morning after pill must never be used
for this very reason. Oral contraceptis the birth control pill
not only prevent fertilization, but they also prevent uterine implantation
if fertilization should occur, and then the end non personhood.
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Non personhood is perhaps the subtlest of all the contemporary
pro abortion arguments. While conceding that science has demonstrated that
human life begins a conception, some pro abortion it's not all,
but like Karl Sagan, who had just mentioned a minute ago,
argue that the fetus is a nonperson until the second
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or third trimester of gestation. Only then does the creature
become a child. The reality is this, we are distinctly
human in each stage of our development. Moreover, we are
conceived not only with all the ear marks of biological life,
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but with the eternity etched in our hearts. Let me
put that another way, both the physical and the non
physical aspects of our humanity are present at the moment
of conception. Sad but true, ethics and morality are frequently
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a function of the size and strength of the latest
lobby group, rather than being being firmly rooted in scientific
and spiritual standards. And if you have no enduring reference point,
societal norms are quickly reduced to mere matters of choice,
and as a result of that, year by year, multiplied
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millions of preborn children are sacrificed on the altar of abortion.
So why was I wrestling when I was trying to
take a nap this afternoon about doing this podcast and
then coming to conclusion that I had to do the podcast.
It is because to be silent or uninformed in an
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age of scientific enlightenment is to be complicit in the carnage. Thankfully, however,
those who have participated in abortion, and there are millions
and millions multiplied millions of the men in the world today,
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not just in America, but worldwide. I won't give you
the statistics, but they're they're staggering. The reason I won't
give you statistics is because they're ever changing, and not
in a positive way. But those who are complicit in
the carnage, those who have participated in an abortion, may
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ultimately receive forgiveness. That's a great message of Christianity. Repentance
leads to forgiveness. So they may not only receive God's
forgiveness in the present life, but they can also look
forward to the ecstasy of reuniting with unborned loved ones
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in eternity. This is this is an issue again that
is timely in the political debates. Unfortunate, whatever side of
the specter may fall on, there has had to be
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so much compromise because the reality is, and I alluded
to this earlier, a majority of Americans hold to the
pro choice position, not to the pro life position. And again,
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as I started out communicating, this was an issue of
transcendent importance in the life of Israel. The eighth century,
ten of the Ten tribes annihilated by the Assyrians. Those
who remained were assimilated into Assyrian culture. Centuries later, the
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Southern Kingdom overwhelmed by the Babylonian Empire. Incredible consequences for
nations that kill their own children. So this podcast I
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was compelled to do because I believe this is not
a issue. It is the issue every single person. Every
single person is made in the image and likeness of God,
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and those dear children deserve life, not capital punishment, and
no amount of rhetoric will change that reality. And if
you are a follower of the King of Kings and
the Lord of Lords, remember as I said before, that
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it is he who created our inmost being, that is
he who knitts together in our mother's roomb, that we
are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that we are we
are made for eternity. We will never cease to exist,
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because when a woman gives birth, she not only gives
birth to a body, she gives birth to a body soul, unity,
and a Christian worldview, the body will eventually die, but
that body will be resurrected. The quintessential passage on that
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is First Corinthian Chapter fifteen. Resurrection is says Saint Paul,
of first importance, we will be resurrected. When that happens,
the soul returns to the body and that body is resurrected, immortal, imperishable, incorruptible.
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And what we do now in this life is not
about being popular or politically correct. What we do now
in this life counts for all eternity. Know well the
condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds.
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That's an instruction in scripture which has eternal significance. This
life is but a vapor here today, gone tomorrow. That's
another edict that has eternal consequences. We may die, but
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all of us will be resurrected, and when we are resurrected,
we will give an account of what we did in
this life. So I could choose today to be politically
correct too. I don't want to talk about abortion because
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even within the body of Christ, there are so many
people that they've had one or their pro choice as
opposed to being pro life. It's a contentious issue. Let's
not talk about it. But I don't think as a
Christian leader you have that option, because I too will
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stand before God and give an account for what I
did while I was in the flesh. What I did
when I had a microphone, whether I use that microphone
to talk about issues that really matter, or I decided
it was better for me to be politically correct as well.
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Remember it's not just about winning political elections. It's about
changing the culture, and all of us can make a difference.
You know, we may not be able to do it
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on a global basis, but all of us have an audience.
Maybe our kids, our extended families, are friends, but all
of us have an opportunity to always be ready to
give an answer, a reason for the hope that lies
within us, and to do it not in a combative way,
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but to do it with gentleness and with respect. I
want to thank you again for all the kind remarks
and reviews with respect to the handcum Plug podcast. Do
you remember, as I said at the beginning, subscribe rate
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for tuning into this edition of the hank Um Plug podcast.
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Just this afternoon. I had the inspiration to do it.
I pray that I've done it with gentleness and with respect,
with accuracy and integrity, and I pray that makes a
difference for time and for attorney. Thanks again for tuning in.
Look Forward to seeing you next time with more of
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the handcum plug podcasts.
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So long for now, don't you re
He Welcome to another teaching edition of The Hand Unplugged Podcast,
a podcast that is committed to equipping God's people to
always be ready to give an answer, a reason for
the hope that lies within them, with gentleness and with respect.
I do want to say at the outset of this podcast,
if you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe, please write, please review.
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It helps a lot. I want to start this teaching
edition the hand Unplugged Podcast by also mentioning that I
had a late night last night. I didn't get a
whole lot of sleep, so I decided to take a
nap this afternoon. But that didn't go very well because
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I kept thinking I need to talk about an issue.
And as I was thinking about the particular issue, I
kept fighting with myself, thinking, this is an issue that's
been talked about so much, It's been debated so frequently.
People probably don't want to hear about this. So I
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wrestled with this. I couldn't sleep, and I finally decided,
you know what, I think God is directing me to
do this particular podcast on this particular subject, and it
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happens to be the subject of abortion. I don't know
why this is in my mind I don't know why
I'm being led to do this. Honestly, I don't know
the details. All I know is I feel very compelled
to walk into the studio today and to talk to
you about this subject. Perhaps, well, perhaps it's because I
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hear politicians say that unless you have a moderate position
with respect to abortion, it's virtually impossible to get elected
in twenty twenty four in our current version of America.
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Think about that, if you do not take a very
moderate view on this issue, probably you cannot get elected.
Why because more than more than fifty percent, a majority
of Americans want a high degree of tolerance when it
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comes to abortion. So what is abortion? Well, abortion is
one of those issues that is going to determine who
runs this country. And I've oftentimes said that the ballot
box is necessary, and people talk about how this is
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the most important election in American history. But the ballot
box is necessary, it's not sufficient because the culture is
ultimately impacted and determined by all kinds of social institutions.
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Think about the educational institutions, or the entertainment institution or
the environmental institutions. These institutions determine the fabric of American
society that is not just American society. So this is
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a transcendently important issue, the issue of abortion, that is
determined in many ways apart from an election. And I
would say this about abortion, and this is a strong
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statement to make. It's not just an issue. I think
it's the issue. And that is a big statement to make,
and I will try in this podcast the best of
my ability to underscore the reality of that statement. I
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also want to point out that it's important for you
to recognize that when a woman gives birth, she does
not merely give birth to a body. She gives birth
to a body soul unity. Indeed, that is precisely what
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it means to be human, the tapestry of life. And
let's start with this, the idea that the tapestry of
life begins with a single thread, through a process, the
process of incredible precision. A microscopic egg in one human
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being is fertilized by a sperm cell from another human being,
and that process not only marks the beginning of a
brand new life, it also marks the genetic future that
that life will have. Think about it. A single fertilized
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egg is a zygo about the size of a pinhead,
contains chemical instructions that would fill more than five hundred
thousand printed pages, and the genetic information contained in that encyclopedia,
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if you will, will it determine the potential physical aspect
of this developing human being, aspects from height to hair color,
and in time, that fertilized human egg divides, if my
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memory serves me correctly, divides into the thirty trillion cells
that make up the human body, and that includes some
twelve billion brain cells that form more than one hundred
and twenty trillion connection synapses or connections. So when we're
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talking about the complexity of this thread of life and
the human being that's produced, we're talking about a human
being that is fearfully and wonderfully made well. With that,
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by way of prologue, let me lapse into something else,
and maybe that is to talk a little bit about
a historical perspective. Now, not taking this perspective historically from
the embryonic stages of American history, but let's talk about
biblical history of the One of the verses that comes
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to mind is this verse. I think it's in kings
where they sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire
and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes
of the Lord, and in that process they provoked him
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to anger, to sacrifice their sons and the daughters in
the fire. And in that process of sacrificing their sons
and daughters, they provoke the King of Kings, the Lord
of Lords, to anger. So for hundreds of years, the
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Lord would warn the Israelites, he'd do it through the prophets.
But there came a time when the warning ceased because
it had become too late. The acts of God's judgment
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was ready to fall. Darkness descended upon the promised land,
the land of the Promise. The people of Israel became slaves,
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that became the slaves of the mighty Assyrian, the pagan
Assyrian people. And although the tribe of Judah to the
south had miraculously survived the initial onslaughter of the Assyrians,
they somehow blithely managed to ignore the lessons of history.
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In fact, again I think it's Kings, But second Kings
tells us that a has the King of Judah, walked
in the ways of the kings of Israel, and he
even sacrificed his son in the fire. In other words,
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he followed the detestable ways of the nations that the
Lord had driven out before the Israelites. The nation of
Israel had indeed become a mirror reflection of the pagan culture.
It had become just like the cultures that surrounded it.
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True prophets continued, now I'm talking about true prophets, not
false prophets, but true prophets continued to warn God's people
that their wickedness would inexorably lead to destruction. But unfortunately,
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there their words fell on deaf ears. The rulers of
the land had become so corrupt, so corrupt that they
even hired false prophets. Why because they wanted to hear
what their itching ears wanted to hear. They wanted the
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prophets to tell them what they wanted to hear, not
what they needed to hear. And so finally the inevitable occurred.
I'm sure most of you know the history. The acts
of God's judgment fell and Babylon leveled Jerusalem, and the
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people of Judah were driven out of the land of Promise. Well,
why is that relevant? Because today America, like ancient Israel,
is turning a deaf ear to the lessons of history.
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We have repeatedly violated God's commendments. We've violated God's commandments
with impunity, as though well, we could do that and
get away with it. And we have failed to hear
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the warnings of His prophets in our own culture. We
have embraced the new paganism of our times. And if
I may say this, our ways have become detestable to
the Lord. We've forgotten his commandments. Rearn when the Lord said,
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when you enter the land the Lord your God has
given you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways
of the nation's there. Let no one be found among
you who sacrifices his son or his daughter in the fire,
who practices divination or sorcery, who interprets omens, who who
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will engages in witchcraft cast spells, or who is a
medium or a speeritist, or who consults the dead. Well,
because all of these things are detestable to the Lord.
And because of these these detestable practices, ther God will
drive out those nations before you. And then I think
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this comes from Deuteronomy, but the text says you must
be blameless before the Lord your God. A quote has
stuck in my head for years and years and years.
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It is a quote by Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer. He
warned us that abortion would be the watershed issue of
our era. I have the quote in front of me.
He said, of all the subjects relating to the erosion
of the sanctity of human life, abortion is not a keystone.
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But abortion is the keystone. It's the first and crucial
issue that has been overwhelming in changing attitudes towards the
value of life in general. Let me read that quote
one more time. Of all the subjects relating to the
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erosion of the sanctity of human life, and there are many,
abortion is the keystone. It is the first. It is
the crucial issue that has been overwhelming in changing attitudes
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towards the value of life in general. Well, Schaeffer's warning
has tragically fallen on deaf ears because for more than
two decades, a lot longer than that, actually, now, we've
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been sacrificing our children on the altars of hedonism. I
don't even know where I thought of that two decades,
because it has been a lot longer than that. But
more importantly than the time span itself, the acts of
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God's judgment is laid to the root. And I say
that in the context of another warning. This is always
stuck in my head. Again. I have the quote in
front of you. It's by John Paul. The second I
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think summarize the matter very succinctly when he said, a
nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope. Well,
two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ himself warned us that
the time will come when you will say, blessed are
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the barren women, the wounds that never bore, the breasts
that never nursed. Think about that. These are the words
of our Lord. And the present day abortion holocaust drives
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these words home in dramatic fashion. Dramatic fashion, particularly when
you consider the statements with the leading spiritual and secular
leaders of our present era, Beverly Harrison. I don't know
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if she still is, but she was a professor of
Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary, a theological seminary, and
she said this infanticide is not a great wrong. Talking
about infanticide is not a great wrong. I do not
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want to be construed as condemning women who, under certain
circumstances quietly put their infants to death. Another quote Esther Langston,
a professor of social work at the University of Nevada,
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Las Vegas. She said this, what we are saying is
that abortion becomes one of the choices. And because it
becomes one of the choices, the person has the right
to choose whatever it is, whatever is best for them,
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whatever is best for them in the situation in which
they find themselves, be it abortion.
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Keep the baby, adopt the baby, sell the baby, leave
the baby in a dumpster, put it on your porch, whatever,
because it is the person's right to choose.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So the phrase is no longer choice today that that
phrase is still used, but the operative phrasing now is
a woman's reproductive rights. And again, think about that in
the context of this quote. You can do whatever you want,
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whatever's best for you in the situation.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Keep the baby, kill the baby, adopt the baby, sell
the baby, leave the baby in a dumpster.
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Et cetera. Another quote that I wrote down, this is
from Mary Calderon. She's a doctor. She's head of the
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, or
at least was at one point. She says, we have
yet to beat our drums for birth control and the
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way we beat them for polio vaccine, we are still
unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics.
Even though this is not a partial truth, but she said,
this is the exact truth. And then, of course there's
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Margaret Sanger. She's the birth mother of planned parenthood, and
she famously said, and this is on the canvas of
my consciousness. I don't have to look at the quote
on a piece of paper. She said, the most merciful
thing that a large family can do for one of
its infant members is to kill it. One other quote,
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and this is from a Nobel Prize laureate. You probably
know his name, James Watson. What do you know his name?
Because he was the co discoverer of DNA. He said
this because of the limitations of president detection of present
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detection methods, most the Earth defects are not discovered until birth. However,
said James Watson, a Nobel Prize laureate, if a child
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was not declared alive until three days after birth, now
we're talking about infanticide. The doctor could allow the child
to die if the parents so chose, and save a
lot of misery and suffering. So if the baby isn't
precisely as you want the baby to be in fanticide.
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The comes the conclusion, and I think maybe even more
frightening is that it's now legal not only to abort,
but also to carve up murdered babies and to use
the carvings for fetal tissue research. If you're pondering this
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horrifying reality with me as I speak, remember something else.
The present day holocaust is government funded. That means that
you and I we're footing the bill, We're paying for
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the carnage. And make no mistake, choice advocates, including the
Congress of the United States and the courts, are really
not friends of children. America's unthinking submission to their twisted
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arguments is moving us progressively towards social genocide. The movement's
own label pro choice is a twisted deception, a deception
that covers up a nationally sanctioned holocaust, a holocaust in
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which the right to choose to kill a child now
reigns supreme, well supreme over the baby's human rights, over
the rights of a parent of a pregnant miner, over
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the rights of the baby's father, the mother's right to
accurate information about fetal development and the negative consequences of
an abortion, the rights of a society to protect all
of its members, no matter what their social status might be,
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whatever their economic situation might be, or even physical limitations,
which leads me to ask the operative question, and that
question silient for this handk un plug podcast is the
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question what is abortion? What are we talking about here?
Because those who continue to fight legislation restricting abortion are
in reality not pro choice rather than they are singularly
pro murdered. That's a mouthful, but it's important to say
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because while the rhetoric serves to camouflage the carnage, abortion
in the final analysis is the painful killing of an
innocent human being. And let me go over each one
of those words. I've done it many times in the past.
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I say it's painful because it is painful for the child.
The methods employed involve burning, involve smothering. This is distasteful,
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but I've got to say it dismembering, even crushing, So
it's painful. That's also killing. Why is that? Because from
the beginning, that which is terminated fulfills the criteria necessary
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for establishing the existence of biological life, and that includes metabolism,
it includes development, it includes the ability to react to stimuli,
and includes self reproduction. So it's the painful killing of
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an innocent What do I say an innocent I say
innocent in that a preborn child deserves protection rather than
capital punishment. So it's the painful killing of an innocent
human being. And again I say human being in that
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the child that is killed is the offspring of human parents.
And never forget this, that child has a totally distinct
genetic code. This truth, it's not something I made up.
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This truth that abortion terminates the life of a human
being is substantiated by science. So let me quote some
very revered scientists, doctor Matthew Roth, hyphenated Dame. She's a
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principal research associated at Harvard Medical Schools Department of Medicine.
And again, I don't know if this is still the case,
but I've used this quote before. Let me use it again.
So again, this is a principal research associated at Harvard
Medical Schools Department of Medicine. It is scientifically correct to
say that an individual human life begins at conception. It
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begins at conception when egg and sperm joined to form
the zygote and this developing human always is a member
of our species in all stages of its life. And
then French geneticist Jerome Lejeune, he once bore eloquent testimony
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to the truth of what doctor Matthews Ross's remarks entailed.
And he did that in a sworn statement to a
United States subcommittee. Here's what he said. This again is
Jerome Lejeune, a French geneticist. He said to a United
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States Senate subcommittee. Quote, to accept the fact that after
fertilization has taken place, a new human being has come
into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion.
The human nature of the human being from conception to
old age is not a metaphysical contention. It is plain
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old experimental evidence. Let me read that one more time.
To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place,
a new human being has come into being is no
longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature
of the human being from conception to old age is
not a metaphysical contingent. It is plain old experimental evidence.
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And maybe this is the best quote of all. Doctor HEIMI. Gordon,
a professor of medical genetics, a physician at the prestigious
Mayo Clinic. His summary says it all because he's using
the perspective of science when he says, I think we
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can now also say that the question of the beginning
of life, or when life begins, is no longer a
question for theological or philosophical dispute. Why because it is
an established scientific fact. He goes un to say, theologians
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and philosophers may go on to debate the meaning of
life for the purpose of life, but it is an
established fact that all life, including human life, begins at
the moment of conception. Since science has demonstrated that a
preborn childish human, and since all human beings have transcendent value,
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it follows that taking the life of an innocent human
being should be unthinkable. While an embryo does not have
a fully developed personality, it does have full personhood from
the moment of conception. You didn't come from an adolescent.
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That's a misnomer. You once were an adolescent. You didn't
come from an embryo. You once were an embryo. And
long before science substantiated the truth that that abortion is
the painful killing of an innocent human being, the Psalmist
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in the Scriptures, summarized the view of Sacred Scripture. If
you haven't memorized these words, let me let me recommend
that you do. The Psalmist said, for you created my
inmost being. You knit me together my mother's womb. I
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praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works
are wonderful. I know that full well. My frame was
not hidden from you when I was made in that
secret place, When I was woven together in the depths
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of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All
the days ordained for me were written in your book before,
before one of them came to be. These are not
the words of a fundamentalist. These are the words of
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sacred Scripture, the words of the Psalmist, the words of
King David, the quintessential King of Israel. We should take
them seriously, particularly in light of the fact that both
science and scripture cooperate the view that abortion is the
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painful killing of an innocent human being, and therefore it
is incumbent upon Christians to do everything in their power
to halt the spread of this enormous evil in the land.
There indeed many fronts on which our battle must be waged. Ultimately, however,
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lasting change only comes when the hearts of people are transformed,
because when the heart is transformed, the behavior is revolutionized
as well. And because of the transcendent imports of this issue,
many years ago, I developed an acronym. Appropriately. The acronym
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is abortion ab R t io N, and I did
that it serve as a memorable tool to help you,
as a believer, annihilate not a human being, but annihilate
abortion arguments. Remember, however, the goal for me and hopefully
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for you, is not the ability to win an argument,
as I started out saying at the beginning of this podcast,
it is to use your well reasoned answer to the
argument of an abortion advocate to serve as a springboard,
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to serve as an opportunity to share the message of
life and light. So let me go through each one
of those letters. I develop these acronyms mostly for myself.
Now I also develop them for you, But it's so
that I can remember, you know, I have a grid
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by which I can remember the arguments and therefore communicate
them wherever I am. The A in the acronym abortion
stands for adoption. If you watch the view you're very
familiar with Whoopi Goldberg or one of the ladies of
the view. She employed this adoption argument when she suggested
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that abortion rights advocates would would take pro lifers much
more seriously if they were willing to adopt babies slated
for abortion. Now, that's the skin of the truth stuffed
with a lie, and the fallacy or the lie becomes
obvious when you put it into different words. Let me
put it into different words. How about if you won't
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adopt my babies, don't tell me I can't kill them.
The B in my abortion acronym represents biblical pretexts, a
text without a context of a pretext. Pro abortionists routinely
use biblical pretext to retain some semblance of religiosity while
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at the same time espousing the radical planks of the
pro abortion movement. Let me give you a classication point.
That's what's known as the argument from breath, and the
way the argument goes is something like, because Adam was
not a living soul until God had breathed the breath
of life into him. A child does not become a
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human being until he or she begins to breathe. Well,
that is a nonsensical argument, but it's used all the time.
And to dispense with this argument is quite simple. Simply
say Adam was inadant, inanimate before God breathed the breath
of life into him. But a preborn child, on the
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other hand, is a life from the moment of conception.
So it's the form, not the fact of oxygen transfer
or breath, that actually changes at birth. So let's see,
we got the A and the B. The O in
abortion stands for the opium effect. And this is kind
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of a little play on words, but clever code words
are the opium of the pro abortion lobby. Why because
they're specifically designed to dull human sensibilities to the horror
of what's taking place with abortion. And probably the best
example of this is the moniker planned Parenthood. That it's
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the quintessential example because the positive ring of the words
masks a horrifying reality, and that reality is that to
abort a preborn child is to terminate a life. No
one said it better, actually, than the birth mother of
Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. She once famously pontificated that the
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most merciful thing a large family can do for one
of its infant members is to kill it. I happen
to have a large family, so that really strikes home
for me. And that kind of killing is positively repositioned
as pro choice, a pro choice prerogative. The preborn children
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terminated are indelicately rendered well fetuses, and pro life advocates
are profanely recast as as social extremists. So if you
take a pro life position in our culture today, you're
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not just pro life as opposed to being pro choice,
you are a dangerous extreme missed. That's the argument, that's
the rhetoric, and that's why politicians have caved in. So
where are we ab Oh are rape and incest? So
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they are reminds me of rape and incests because this
is this is one of those conundrums that people face
all the time. What about rape and what about incense?
I mean, this is an emotional argument that usually wins
the day. So to annihilate arguments that abortion should be
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allowed in cases of rape and incest is obviously a
very difficult task. Why because the emotion of the argument
often precludes serious examination of the merit of the argument. Now,
though every case of rape and incest is horrific, you
have to underscore that you can't minimize that. But though
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every single case of rape and incest is horrible, unthinkable,
you cannot hope to remove the pain by compounding that
horrendous pain with murder. In otherwise, two wrongs don't make
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a right. The very thing that makes rape and incest
evil likewise makes abortion evil, because both involve the brutal
dehumanization of an innocent human being, creating the image and
likeness of God. So now we're at the tea. The
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tea reminds me of a word, a significant word, the
word tolerance. And this is important because tolerance is, no
doubt the first and greatest commandment of the pro abortion lobby.
Its essence is forever memorialized in a phrase that's repeated
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over and over again, called a refrain. Don't like abortion,
then don't have one. Just don't impose your morality on me. Now,
at first, blush the mantra sounds eminently tolerant. But think
for a moment, reflect for a moment. We oftentimes don't think,
we hear, we hear these statements thrown out, and we
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don't even think, We don't examine, But think for a moment, Consider,
for a moment what this entails and you immediately recognize
the flaw. Imagine someone in the interest of tolerance, applying
the exact same reasoning to rape. Don't like rape, don't
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ripe anyone, just don't impose your antiquated morality on me.
And we do well to remember I said this many
many times over some forty years in this studio. Tolerance
with respect to personal relationships is a virtue, but tolerance
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with respective truth is travesty. The I and the abortion acronym.
And by the way, I have this in the Complete
Bible answer Book Collectors Edition, Revised, Updated, expanded. Him is
brand new, just came out recently. It's available to the
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Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. You can check it
out on the webit equipped dot org. You can write
me at Post Office box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina,
zip code two eight two seven to one. So this,
this acronym that will help you remember how to recognize
the arguments and then deal with the arguments, is in
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that book. But we're at the eye, which stands for inequality.
Simply put, the inequality argument posits that a woman forced
to carry her baby to full term could not compete
equally with a male counterpart in the workplace, and as
a result of that, she must be provided the latitude
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to abort. That's sort of the inequality argument. Let's carry
this inequality argument to its logical conclusion. If you did,
the inequality argument would apply to the abandonment issue as well.
So imagine the absurdity of arguing that in order for
a woman to compete on an equal basis with a man,
she should be afforded the opportunity to not only abort
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a preborn child, but also to abandon a preschooler. It's
so important to be able to draw these arguments out
to the logical conclusion, as opposed to just hearing them
and you know, buying into the SoundBite, which oftentimes is
as I mentioned earlier, that's kind of the truth stuffed
with a lie. So now we're at the O. The
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oral abortifationis. And this may sound like a mouthful, but
it's a very important mouthful. And I'll tell you why.
And the Dragons of Eden. You all know Carl Sagan,
I mean, he's beyond famous. He argued that a first
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trimester abortion does not constitute the painful killing of a
human being, but rather it's the termination of a fish
or a frog. And of course he was wrong. I've
already sort of alluded to that earlier in this podcast.
But an emerging embryo does not have a fully developed personality,
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but he or she does have full per personhood from
the moment of conception. That's not a theological argument, it's
not a philosophic it's plain old experimental evidence, and so
it's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of
experimental evidence, as I just said. And thus the abortion
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pill in the morning after pill must never be used
for this very reason. Oral contraceptis the birth control pill
not only prevent fertilization, but they also prevent uterine implantation
if fertilization should occur, and then the end non personhood.
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Non personhood is perhaps the subtlest of all the contemporary
pro abortion arguments. While conceding that science has demonstrated that
human life begins a conception, some pro abortion it's not all,
but like Karl Sagan, who had just mentioned a minute ago,
argue that the fetus is a nonperson until the second
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or third trimester of gestation. Only then does the creature
become a child. The reality is this, we are distinctly
human in each stage of our development. Moreover, we are
conceived not only with all the ear marks of biological life,
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but with the eternity etched in our hearts. Let me
put that another way, both the physical and the non
physical aspects of our humanity are present at the moment
of conception. Sad but true, ethics and morality are frequently
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a function of the size and strength of the latest
lobby group, rather than being being firmly rooted in scientific
and spiritual standards. And if you have no enduring reference point,
societal norms are quickly reduced to mere matters of choice,
and as a result of that, year by year, multiplied
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millions of preborn children are sacrificed on the altar of abortion.
So why was I wrestling when I was trying to
take a nap this afternoon about doing this podcast and
then coming to conclusion that I had to do the podcast.
It is because to be silent or uninformed in an
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age of scientific enlightenment is to be complicit in the carnage. Thankfully, however,
those who have participated in abortion, and there are millions
and millions multiplied millions of the men in the world today,
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not just in America, but worldwide. I won't give you
the statistics, but they're they're staggering. The reason I won't
give you statistics is because they're ever changing, and not
in a positive way. But those who are complicit in
the carnage, those who have participated in an abortion, may
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ultimately receive forgiveness. That's a great message of Christianity. Repentance
leads to forgiveness. So they may not only receive God's
forgiveness in the present life, but they can also look
forward to the ecstasy of reuniting with unborned loved ones
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in eternity. This is this is an issue again that
is timely in the political debates. Unfortunate, whatever side of
the specter may fall on, there has had to be
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so much compromise because the reality is, and I alluded
to this earlier, a majority of Americans hold to the
pro choice position, not to the pro life position. And again,
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as I started out communicating, this was an issue of
transcendent importance in the life of Israel. The eighth century,
ten of the Ten tribes annihilated by the Assyrians. Those
who remained were assimilated into Assyrian culture. Centuries later, the
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Southern Kingdom overwhelmed by the Babylonian Empire. Incredible consequences for
nations that kill their own children. So this podcast I
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was compelled to do because I believe this is not
a issue. It is the issue every single person. Every
single person is made in the image and likeness of God,
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and those dear children deserve life, not capital punishment, and
no amount of rhetoric will change that reality. And if
you are a follower of the King of Kings and
the Lord of Lords, remember as I said before, that
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it is he who created our inmost being, that is
he who knitts together in our mother's roomb, that we
are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that we are we
are made for eternity. We will never cease to exist,
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because when a woman gives birth, she not only gives
birth to a body, she gives birth to a body soul, unity,
and a Christian worldview, the body will eventually die, but
that body will be resurrected. The quintessential passage on that
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is First Corinthian Chapter fifteen. Resurrection is says Saint Paul,
of first importance, we will be resurrected. When that happens,
the soul returns to the body and that body is resurrected, immortal, imperishable, incorruptible.
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And what we do now in this life is not
about being popular or politically correct. What we do now
in this life counts for all eternity. Know well the
condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds.
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That's an instruction in scripture which has eternal significance. This
life is but a vapor here today, gone tomorrow. That's
another edict that has eternal consequences. We may die, but
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all of us will be resurrected, and when we are resurrected,
we will give an account of what we did in
this life. So I could choose today to be politically
correct too. I don't want to talk about abortion because
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even within the body of Christ, there are so many
people that they've had one or their pro choice as
opposed to being pro life. It's a contentious issue. Let's
not talk about it. But I don't think as a
Christian leader you have that option, because I too will
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stand before God and give an account for what I
did while I was in the flesh. What I did
when I had a microphone, whether I use that microphone
to talk about issues that really matter, or I decided
it was better for me to be politically correct as well.
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Remember it's not just about winning political elections. It's about
changing the culture, and all of us can make a difference.
You know, we may not be able to do it
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on a global basis, but all of us have an audience.
Maybe our kids, our extended families, are friends, but all
of us have an opportunity to always be ready to
give an answer, a reason for the hope that lies
within us, and to do it not in a combative way,
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but to do it with gentleness and with respect. I
want to thank you again for all the kind remarks
and reviews with respect to the handcum Plug podcast. Do
you remember, as I said at the beginning, subscribe rate
review It helps a lot. And thank you so much
for tuning into this edition of the hank Um Plug podcast.
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Just this afternoon. I had the inspiration to do it.
I pray that I've done it with gentleness and with respect,
with accuracy and integrity, and I pray that makes a
difference for time and for attorney. Thanks again for tuning in.
Look Forward to seeing you next time with more of
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the handcum plug podcasts.
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