Is it wrong to murder a baby by abortion?
First, to answer that question we must establish where human life comes from. Do you know that the Bible teaches us that the Creator of the universe designed and created you, as well as your pre-born child? In Jeremiah 1:5 God says: "Before I formed you in the womb, I Knew you." How could God possibly know you before you were conceived? How could He know you before your father's sperm penetrated your mother's egg? The Lord of heaven and earth knows you because He designed you even before He spoke you into existence. Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, upholds the universe by the Word of His power. Psalm 139:13-14, 16 is a prayer which confesses to God: "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.. Your eyes have seen my unformed substance..." Psalm 127:3 declares: "Children are a gift from the LORD." No child is a mistake. No boy or girl is an accident. Every single baby is a gift from God Himself.
We, being created in God's image and likeness, are moral beings. We know right from wrong not as taught by our culture, but by our Creator--for morality is a universal human characteristic. We know in our hearts and minds that it is wrong to lie, steal, and to be sexually immoral (have sex with someone we are not covenanted to in marriage),. Every person also knows that it is wrong to murder. How do we know these things are wrong? God is good, and kind. He has given us His Law, the Ten Commandments, to show us His goodness, and to show us what is required of us. Because God is good He has made it clear to us that He exists by giving us two things: the creation and our conscience. We know there is a Creator by looking at creation--the sun, moon, plants, animals, humans, etc. We also know there is a God because He has written His Law the Ten Commandments, on our hearts, If we're honest with ourselves we must admit and agree with the Creator that we've broken His Laws. And because God is good, He must punish Lawbreakers. For God, in His goodness, has promised to punish all sin (breaking His Commandments), and the punishment that He has determined for sin is eternity in Hell. He is just & has promised to let no sin go unpunished. God's commandments include "You shall not murder.' There is a prophecy against all who murder the innocent. Do you know what it is? Revelation 21:8 says God's just punishment for every murderer is: eternity in the lake of fire!
Jesus said: "No one is good." Romans 3:23 says "all have sinned." More than that, the Bible reveals the reality that ever since the fall of Adam & Eve, that all people are sinners by Nature. God is just & has promised that He will not allow sin to go unpunished. Yes, sin is that serious! In fact, did you know that the Word of God says that there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood? But God is also merciful and loving. 2,000 years ago God sent His one & only Son to earth to be born of a virgin and to live under the same Law that you & I live under. Jesus, the Son of God, was fully man, yet fully God, He was tempted in every way, just as we are, yet He never sinned. He was perfect in thought, word, and deed. Jesus was, in every respect, pleasing in the sight of God.
During His lifetime, Jesus claimed to be equal with God, saying, "I and My Father are One (John 10:30). He claimed to be the exclusive way to God, saying, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me (John 14:6). And He claimed that little children are precious to God, saying, ""Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven'" (Matthew 19:14). Jesus also told us how to enter heaven. "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of no heaven" (Matthew 18:3). Despite Jesus' goodness and perfection, He was taken by the hands of sinful men, to be executed. He did this willingly, saying, "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father" (John 10:17-18). He was crucified, and He died. On the Cross, Jesus cried these words: My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Jesus, being the Son of God, and in every respect equal with God, was forsaken by God. Why? Although He was, and is, the Son of God, He was also the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. At that moment on the Cross, the sins of the world were placed on Him, and the Father crushed Him under His just and holy wrath. This is how God can forgive sin, He caused His precious Son Jesus, who knew no sin, to become sin for all who repent and believe, that we could then become the righteousness that God requires, in Christ alone. Jesus, having endured the full wrath of God for His people, was buried and-on the third day He arose from the grave, just as He said He would. Although this forgiveness is free, it is not automatic. Jesus Himself said that you must be converted. This is more than praying a prayer or going to church. Jesus said: " You must be born again!" Scripture says, "Truly, these times of ignorance God over looked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the deaď" (Acts 17:30-31). God requires that you must repent confess and forsake your sin) and that you must place your trust solely in Jesus Christ for your eternal salvation. God loves life, He created you in His image. And He created every child in every womb in His image. His desire for you is that you turn to Him & receive forgiveness so that you may live.
Precious little babies in the womb are created in the image of God, just as you are. You know that abortion is wrong. You know that it is evil. You know that it is sin. So the answer to the big question....Is it wrong to murder a baby by abortion?" is obvious. Yes! It is a soul-damning sin to murder a child in the womb. Please. Repent of your sexual immorality, turn to Christ today. Do not kill the precious infant inside you. The life God has created is the life God requires you to protect.
Do not be so ignorant as to presume that God will forgive your sins. Going to church will not save you. Praying will not save you. Don't be deceived--you cannot mock the justice of God. God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows. they will reap (Galatians 6:7). If you sow the sin of murder, you will reap death, for the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23). Fear God. Turn away from murdering today. Look to Jesus, the Savior. Only He has the power to forgive you of your sin, cleanse you by His blood, and give you a new heart. 'Come now', says the LORD: 'though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' (Isaiah 1:18)
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Additional Scriptures:
There is life and purpose given to the preborn babies.
Galatians 1:15: “But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace.”
Colossians 1:15-17
[15] He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. [16] For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. [17] And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
All babies were made through Jesus and for Jesus.
Genesis 1:26-27
[26] Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” [27] So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Every baby is bearing God's image.
Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.”
Psalm 127:3-4
[3] Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. [4] Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.
Life is a precious gift from God. Every single preborn baby is a gift and a heritage from Him.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you Jeremiah 1:5
God knew all of us, including your baby, before he formed us.
Isaiah 49:15
[15] “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
Deuteronomy 30:19
[19] I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
Matthew 18:10
[10] “Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
Proverbs 6:16-17
[16] These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: [17] A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood,
Revelation 21:6-8
[6] And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. [7] He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. [8] But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Throughout the Bible God hates the shedding of innocent blood, both inside and outside of the womb.
Jeremiah 22:3
[3] Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 7:6
Do not shed innocent blood.
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person
Exodus 20:13
You shall not murder.
The preborn babies were provided equal protection in the law. If the baby died, the one who caused their death had to die. God commanded “Life for life” punishment. Showing their equal value to Him.
If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman, and she gives birth prematurely, but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined …if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life.
—Exodus 21:22,23
Exodus 23:7b
“Do not kill the innocent and righteous.”
Matthew 19:18-19
[18] He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ [19] ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
Preborn babies are our neighbors.
Romans 13:8-10
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Isaiah 5:20-23
[20] Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! [22] Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, [23] who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
Every single preborn baby is innocent and deserving of equal rights.
Ezekiel 16:20-21
[20] And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter [21] that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Our children are God's children.