by Pete » February 20th, 2006, 4:39 am
I firmly believe an unborn child who dies does to go heaven, and personally, I think it's very right that we do hold that view (those of us who do, anyway). Clearly though, this is not something to do with the child itself, but to do with God. Now here's why I firmly believe that an unborn child does go to heaven if they die.
1. Because God is a loving God. Love is an essential part of His identity - it is who He is. And to let an unborn child who does not have the capacity to choose to accept Christ and His salvation, and thus, to send an unborn child who cannot make the decision to accept the salvation offer, to hell, this would be a very unloving thing to do and it doesn't fit with God's character or nature.
2. Because of the fact that God "knitted us to gether" in our mothers wombs. I think this can be suggests that we are near to God when we are in the womb. In fact there's three areas I'd venture to say that we are near to God. (1) in the womb, (2) when we accept the offer of salvation through Jesus Christ and (3) when we are with Him in eternity - the closest we can be to Him!
Why then, as you've asked, if I hold these views, do I believe abortion to be wrong? Firstly, because it is robbing the child of the choice to accept Christ's offer of salvation and Life in HIM. Secondly, because it is murder (in many cases - admittedly definitely not all - a point I'll come back to at the end of this post). Thirdly, because JESUS Christ is LIFE and God's plan for us is for us to walk in that Life which is Jesus. Abortion not only robs the child of the opportunity to make that choice, but it's also robbing God of His authority to call "time" on a person's physical life.
Now as I was saying, I said abortion is murder "in many cases", there's a couple of examples when murder (of course) would be a completely unfair label for it. Firstly, in the commonly given example (which is a relatively uncommon occurance) when it's a choice between the mother and baby's life. To label an abortion in this case as "murder" would be very wrong. The other example is a natural abortion (which my mother had, before I was born). In these cases though, I am still firmly convinced that the same applies - that God would not allow for those children to be sent to hell.
I am firmly convinced that I will one day, have the blessing of meeting the older brother I never met here on earth. Yeah, I've got two other older brothers, an older sister and a younger sister who are very much alive, but to suggest that the older brother of mine who didn't get the choice to accept Christ's salvation offer would be in hell - the idea does not sit well with me at all, and in fact, I'd suggest it's very unscriptural.
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