Refuting pro abortion arguments

The only differences between a fetus in the womb and a newborn baby can be remembered by the acronym S.L.E.D.

Size

Level of development

Environment

Degree of dependency

None of them are essential (that is, none of them have to do with "what" the fetus "is") and none of them make the fetus non-human.

Refuting pro abortion rhetoric is essential to the pro life cause. In this podcast we give you some foundational tools.

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The Bible on Trial

Famous people have had different views on the origin of the Bible, and as far as human opinion goes, they have a right to their views.

But when we examine the Bible itself, what does the internal evidence tell us? Is the Bible really the Word of God?

Should we consider the Bible’s own claims regarding its origin?

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Defenders of the Faith Podcast

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The first program treats the subject of Preterism.

As Preterism continues to deceive believers, it has become more necessary to expose its fallacies. Preterists believe that many (or all) of the prophecies regarding the second coming of Christ were fulfilled in a.D. 70, when the Roman armies destroyed Jerusalem. To them that was "Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven."

Listen in as we explain what they believe and why their theories are mistaken.

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Why Christians must practice critical thinking

Charles Francis Potters authored, Humanism, A New Religion in which he wrote:

Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?

Researchers continue to come up with increasingly grave statistics that reveal the success of the Secular Humanists. Consider how serious the condition is among self-professing Christian adults:

64% believe moral truth depends on the situation;
60% believe male/female co-habitation outside of marriage is acceptable;
55% believe a good person can earn his or her salvation;
44% believe Jesus Christ committed sins while on earth.

And consider the peril of college students:

67% of college professors approve of homosexuality;
84% of professors approve of abortion;
65% embrace socialist and communist ideals;
88% of students from “Christian” homes deny their faith before they graduate from college;
91% of students from evangelical churches do not believe in absolute moral truth.

We must teach our members biblical discernment and critical thinking. Instead of accepting the postulates of a godless society without examination, they should be able to analyze such ideas from a biblical worldview mindset.

The Apostle Paul advised:

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." (Romans 12:2)

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Statistics used above were recently reported by a Worldview Weekend email update.

Homosexuality brainwashing for third graders

Pastor J.R. Ensey reported this in his Advance Ministries Newsletter:

"If you doubt that the homosexual agenda is being promoted in our public schools, just check out these two excerpts from a film that teachers are required to watch to learn how to promote gay and lesbian lifestyles. This is not a set up. These are real teachers and real students. It will shock you!"

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This is another wake-up call to our churches, specially our Sunday Schools, to really "train" our children in the ways of the Lord. Need we mention the responsibility parents have to explain such issues to their children?

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The Crucifixion in Prophecy

One of the clearest prophecies of the crucifixion of Messiah is found in Psalm 22:16

"For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
They pierced My hands and My feet." (NKJV)

Written centuries before the coming of Christ, this prophecy is not only amazing because of the time-span between the writing and the fulfillment; the unlikelihood of a Jewish person to be killed by crucifixion was, at the time the prophecy was written, very unlikely to say the least. That method of execution would not be invented until centuries later.

Also, Jewish people would usually apply capital punishment by stoning in cases of blasphemy (which was the charge brought against Jesus by the Sanhedrin); what are the odds they would kill him any other way?

In the Book of Zechariah there are more scriptures that speak of the piercing of his hands:

"If someone asks him, 'What are these wounds on your body?' he will answer, 'The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.'" (Zachariah 13:6)

And then again:

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son." (Zechariah 12:10)

The context makes it clear that Messiah is in view.

The Bible, in spite of its critics, proves time and again that it is the Word of God. The exactness of its prophecies are one more evidence that it was really God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16).

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Planned Parenthood vs a baby's smile

April 18, 2007 - Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Supreme Court has reversed a decision it handed down in 2000 and upheld a Congressional ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure. The ruling indicated that the federal ban on the abortion procedure did not violate the so-called right to abortion established under Roe v. Wade.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion for the Supreme Court and indicated that the abortion advocates who sued to overturn the ban "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases."
President Bush signed the national partial-birth abortion ban into law in 2003 and abortion advocates took it to court in three separate lawsuits and federal courts in each case relied on the Supreme Court's decision in 2000 and declared the ban unconstitutional.

Calling the decision a "dark day," for the fight to keep abortion legal, Planned Parenthood president Cecille Richards sent out a fundraising email to the abortion business' supporters just hours after the decision.

"Your immediate help is essential as Planned Parenthood responds to the disastrous U.S. Supreme Court decision," Richards wrote in the financial plea.

She claimed the high court "turned its back on more than 30 years of Supreme Court decisions" promoting abortion, despite numerous decisions uphold pro-life laws since the Roe ruling in 1973.

"There is no way we will let this stand," Richards warned, adding that "Planned Parenthood lawyers and medical experts are carefully studying the justices' opinions, searching out ways to ensure" that it can continue doing hundreds of thousands of abortions despite "this reckless ruling."

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Hmmm. Let's see what the babies in peril of being killed with the partial birth abortion procedure think:




Sorry, "Planned Parenthood," I'll side with the babies on this one.

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Dealing with Postmodernism

Modernism was partly a reaction to premodernism’s lack of evidential integrity. Premodernism was a blind faith that would not be bothered by the facts. Modernism swung the pendulum in the extreme opposite way, making reason and science the arbiters of what one should believe. With Postmodernism comes the tendency to overcorrect the abuses of modernism but in so doing the very idea of ultimate truth is lost (Truth with a capital “T,” if you please). Anyone can and should believe anything they choose, even if their ideas are contradictory to those of others, no one is wrong because no one can be sure they are absolutely right.

Postmodernism and premodernism are similar in that they embrace personal experience as a valid way of “knowing,” although they both may define “knowing” in a different way; “knowing what and with what amount of certainty” is the question that may remain.

In reaching the postmodern world new methods must be employed, but people will not accept us and our message only if we show them love, because postmodernism has redefined the word “love.” To a postmodern person love is shown in never judging anyone else’s actions and above all by never telling them they are wrong and that you are right regarding anything, specially religion. It can be misleading to expect that if you show people love they will automatically associate that with your Christianity. “Love” is the battle cry of the postmodern and is misused to provide acceptance of those that are different than us, including gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. Although we should love all sinners, that should not be construed as an acceptance of their sinful lifestyle. In today’s society the only wrong is thinking you are right. Unless you accept everyone around you as they are, without trying to change their moral (or immoral) convictions, you are not “loving,” but rather a “hate-monger.”

We need apologetics(1) in order to overcome the insidious philosophy of relativism in the postmodern world. This is not only necessary to reach the postmodern world outside the church, but also the postmoderns that have been born into the church. Our children go to postmodern schools, are trained by postmodern teachers, many of them grow up watching T.V. programs with a postmodern, relativistic bend (I know what most of our churches say about television, I also know that realistically speaking the recommendation of not owning a television has been highly disregarded). Statistics show that up to 80% of Christian youth abandon the church when they reach college age. Could it be that we have failed to provide them with sound reasons for faith? How many youth do you personally know that have no biblical clue as to why they dress the way they dress? To them it is just the way they were brought up, or their parents insist they do so. What usually happens to their dress codes when they leave the home to go away to college?

A young person that attends secular college is not only bombarded with a sensual environment, but also with an academic world that thinks the Bible is a bunch of tales and that evolution has done away with the need for a God. They have no answers to their nagging questions. Could they have been wrong? There is a divorce of the mind and the heart, which is unscriptural. The mind and heart should be united in their worship of the one true God (Mark 12:28-30).

We must not forget that when it comes to biblical faith it is never an either/or situation, but rather a both/and reality when it comes to knowing, believing in and experiencing the God of Pentecost.

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Note.
1. Apologetics is defined as a "rational defense of the Christian faith."

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