 Origins
We all came from somewhere. Even If you’ve never really had a place that felt like “home,” you did not just materialize out of nowhere. Your existence, like everyone else’s, is a derived existence. However, unlike the secular determinism of Darwinism you are not simply the necessary outcome of what came before. What I am referring to is the secular answer to the nature of sowing and reaping, cause and effect. In the worldview that tries to conceive of a universe without a personal and purposeful Creator, one must explain how things are the way they are and what process brings as a result the current world around us. To deal with this, many of the brightest minds who are groping around in the gloomy darkness of atheism have concluded that current and future outcomes are fatalistically determined by the series of moments, minutes, months, and millennia transpiring before. These things are not decreed or chosen but they are necessarily determined by the impersonal action and reaction of matter and energy. But in reality, in the real world (God’s world), our existence is planned and purposeful. We, as human beings, exist because our Creator has formed us for His glory and to accomplish His amazing purposes. We have our existence from His hand and His will. You and all other people are not accidents. God intended for you to exist and will use you to bring Himself glory. Everything and everyone in the universe has an intended and inescapable reason for being! Your beginning is from God and your being is for God. The Apostle Paul even said that in Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:22-31). Precedents In modern jurisprudence precedents are really important. The idea of precedents is that the prior interpretation and application of laws and statues helps to guide and clarify the current rendering of those issues. On the issue of life many would try to argue that the legal murder of infants in the womb is now a matter of precedent. This means that it should be assumed that the lethal legality of the last half century should be taken into consideration on the issue. However, the former precedent of illegality from the balance of American history is far more imposing. The most important issue should not be the standing of precedent but the interpretation of the text of the constitution which does not contain any kind of right to abortion whether explicit or implicit. However, there is an explicit right to life in the text. Jurisdiction The problem is that we as a society have lost our understanding of proper jurisdictional authority. God has granted diverse authority to different realms of government. The three basic levels are family, church and state. However, none of these have unilateral authority over the taking of innocent life. We see in some honor/shame culture the family assuming this authority and sinfully murdering members (usually women) of their own households. In many false religions we also see this kind of sinful authoritarian assumption in those ecclesiastical bodies. But in the United States this has been championed by the state. The Bible does say that the state bears the sword and can legitimately take lives under some circumstances. But those circumstances are for the rendering of justice on those who have broken the moral laws given to protect lives and the society. Only God Himself has unilateral jurisdiction over life and death and He alone is good, just, righteous and able to carry such enormous authority. This Sunday is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Let us as God’s people plead with Him for the atrocity of abortion to be taken away from our land and for the precious lives of unborn children to protected and prospered!
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