Remote island ...no outside contact _______ An unplanned pregnancy _______ No proclaiming of the Gospel Untouched by the outside world ________ Lacking of support or agreement _______ No ultra-sound, or interest Missionaries reach the island ________ Disappointment as others don't support _______ Heard the Gospel Heaped within local tradition _______ Struggling with healthy emotional feelings ________ Movement within womb
Distribution of Bibles for all ________ Emotions & panic reaching critical mass ________ Jesus is fully presented
Churches established & available _______ Overwhelming feeling to terminate birth _______ Baby is beyond full term
Attended church & read Bible _______ Baby is born & is alive and breathing ______ Reject the Bible as truth
Leave the faith & renew old ways ______ Doctor & you determine if child lives _____ Reject and destroy life
The facts may be argued, rights debated, and values contested ...but, though ignorance can sometimes be excused, when truth shows itself as truth, ignorance can no longer be claimed.
The Lord heard the great cry of Sodom and Gomorrah ...and Abraham looked to the lives there, and made an argument for their sake. Abraham didn't want God to be upset with his questions, but I'm sure God loved Abraham's plea for their lives.
Abraham asked, "Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy? ...peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous? ...peradventure there be forty? ...Oh let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty? ...shall twenty be? ...Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there?"
God was not angry. He wants us to understand His love, and He wants us to reason out with Him ...and realize that His true desire is that none would perish.
But, we reason it out ...without Him, and absurdly argue it in the wrong direction, against life:
"If a baby is conceived, can we value that child? ...how about if you can feel the baby move or kick, can we then realize and value the child? ...how about if the baby is being born, can we then consider that life? ...what if the baby is fully born and breathing, can we consider that life? ...how about one week old, will you then determine to terminate the life? ...how about two, or three weeks, or after a month will we still argue that since after the two weeks a baby can be terminated, then why not a month also? ...how about when the child begins to crawl, will that child be required to crawl and beg for our forgiveness, for imposing so upon our life? ...how about when they can first utter, "Mommy, please!" or "Daddy, why!" or "Please, somebody help me!!" Would we instead, demand they admit they should not be a further burden upon us, amid crying for answers to what they'd done wrong to not deserve our love? What is it that they could possibly do to please us? Or would we silence their love at that instance, and forever abandon our own?"
The baby, at first may seem invisible ...and we may attempt to pretend that life doesn't exist, but we are without excuse.
Romans 1:20-22, states, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise ..."
Romans 1:28, goes on to say, "Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ..."
Those who claim to be progressive, yet have regressed so far from God, have occupied themselves so much with their wayward thinking ...what would it take to awaken those who are on the fringe who quickly accept the claimed modern way of thinking?
Sometimes if you see the stark contrast, in view of horrific events that penetrate the gray boundaries between good and evil ...then the challenge is to confess the wrong that leads to these intolerable absurdities. But, if the delusion is so ingrained in your mind and personality that you do not even desire to escape it ...then you have somewhere along the line excused yourself, now arrogantly offering no apologies for the way of thinking you now claim to be equally yours.
There is a saying , "Ignorance is no excuse." I believe ignorance is excusable, and definitely forgivable ...but, what becomes of the excuse when ignorance no longer exists in a situation? Does the excuse disappear with the ignorance? If you take off your shoe, and see it is caked with mud ...would you still claim you never stepped in the mud?
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