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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 6th, 2007
Is there a study guide along with"Know the Bible in 30 Days"?
by Answerbag Staff on July 11th, 2010
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What year did ronald knox publish the new testament?
by Answerbag Staff on July 6th, 2010
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How much story material to choose from did early Christians have access to in order to determine what should constitute the scriptures?
by aldonoir on May 15th, 2012
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Who publishes the new King James Bible?
by Answerbag Staff on June 14th, 2010
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Were multiple wives/concubines only in the Old Testament or also the New? Anyone ever count them for a grand total? Dozens/hundreds/more?
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on May 12th, 2012
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You're reading Where in the Bible does it say "Thou Shall Not Get An Abortion" or "Abortion Evil" or even anything /against/ Abortion?
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He might have changed his mind
by Lemonyellow Di Vintage on August 6th, 2007
Well said!
by Anonymous on August 7th, 2007
I think that I prefer the King James Translation's wording of the first verse better. "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine." The translation that you use seems to say that the person should be punished if no harm comes to the child as a result of being born prematurely. On the other hand, the wording of the King James version makes it clearer that the child doesn't survive. This is still a good answer, disagreements over translation notwithstanding.
by Glenn Blaylock on August 8th, 2007
It's always good to look at different translations. Sometimes you can get a better picture.
by Anonymous on August 8th, 2007
Thanks Glenn; I agree.
by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 9th, 2007
Also... "Thou Shalt not murder."
by John Pacella on August 10th, 2007
That too, but if you don't consider the fetus as life, that arguement does not hold water. It does to me however.
by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 10th, 2007
A new life begins at conception and is as such in God's eyes so aborting that life is murder
by Anonymous on October 2nd, 2007
A fetus is alive, it moves, feels, and when they do an abortion the fetus is already forming into a baby, this is life, even in the mothers womb. I could always feel movement by the time I was 1 1/2 months along. and the fetus is moving even way before that. And to say it's not human in a humans womb is crazy, only if it's in an animals womb means it's not human.
by JanetMalley on November 28th, 2007
What about Numbers 31:17 “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every women that hath known man by lying with him.” Not only kill the children, but also any woman who might be pregnant.
by ConservativelyLiberal on June 2nd, 2009
Or Hosea 13:16 "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open."
by ConservativelyLiberal on June 2nd, 2009
God did order the genocide of people who were practicing forms of worship that we would consider to be depraved. These practices included human sacrifice. So, the Lord ordered their extermination to keep these practices from contaminating and being adopted by the Israelites. This is a case of God passing judgment and commanding Israel to execute it. In someways, it could actually be seen as God showing mercy to those slain children because He would take them to Himself before they could be corrupted by the society into which they were born.
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However, in the case of abortion, that is men passing a judgment on those that couldn't possible have committed any crime. In the vast majority of the situation, the abortion is performed simply because having the child in inconvenient, because the mother and/or father does not want to accept responsibility for the actions that led to the pregnancy. So, what we have here are two very different situations. In one the people were...
by Glenn Blaylock on June 2nd, 2009
... responding to God's commands. In the other, we have people who are playing God.
by Glenn Blaylock on June 2nd, 2009
I guess life is only sacred if you're the one not getting to call the shots.
by ConservativelyLiberal on June 2nd, 2009
Hosea 13:16.
Here, God punishes the Samaritans for their sins by having the Assyrian army attack them. This attack is to include ripping open pregnant women in accordance with Gods wishes.
This could be interpreted as God condoning or even causing abortions.
by Czar_K on June 30th, 2011