Living pro-life is more than talk

By the title of this column, I am very sure that most people will readily understand the underlying theme even before I begin, as the war over abortion has been waged in this country now for the last three and a half decades. That’s right, decades. And it is a cultural war, at that, with the only blood being shed being that of the innocents over whom this battle is waged.

But have you ever considered what each side says about themselves? Take for example those who call themselves “pro choice.” They call themselves pro choice because they want you to believe that they have the woman’s best interests at heart. But the truth is that to believe in this kind of choice, you must also believe that every murderer, thief, rapist and child molester has a right to act upon their choices and that victims are just out of luck.

The truth is that they want our young people to be free to engage in fornication without the consequences. They have no regard for marriage, neither for the children. They preach a gospel of hedonism, equip our young people with condoms and when all else fails, it’s just a fetus.

Young people, what you need to learn is that wrong choices always carry harsh consequences, and fornication is a wrong choice because God says so. And let me say to you boys out there that you are not much of a man to put a girl in a motherly way and just walk away. True men take responsibility for their actions. And to you girls, just know that only those who say “wait until marriage have your best interests at heart.

With this said, it is time to consider those who call themselves “pro-life.” In keeping with political correctness, it is fashionable these days to keep things positive in nature. Yet, they did not get in the battle because they were “for” life, but because they were against abortion. Thus, it would be more honest to call them anti-abortion, or anti-death, than pro life, regardless of the political climate.

For those who would take issue with me over this, or say that I am splitting hairs, go home and count your children and then come and count mine.

The truth is that the average American church member is more steeped in Margaret Sanger’s planned parenting philosophies than they are in the Bible. I can still remember the day when a fancy evangelist of six children came to me and said that his quiver was full, but by whose decree? Though most are not so extreme, and live by the motto “three or four, but no more,” this is a far cry from biblical Christianity.

Let me give you a couple of things to chew on. First, God is pro-life. We know this first of all because of how he made us, and the potential for life that he put within us. But secondly, and more importantly, we know this because of what the Bible says.

Psalm 127:3-5 says, “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ... Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. ... Where modern Christianity and biblical Christianity disagree is in the little word here “reward.” We no longer, on average, believe children to be God’s reward, but some form of a disease that is preventable. What God would choose to bless, we choose to limit.

Secondly, the road to abortion is paved with prophylactics. Proverbs 22:3 says, “A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.”

What God is saying here is that it behooves us, as Christians, to consider the roads that we walk down. It doesn’t take a genius to see that the same crowd who gave us birth control also promotes abortion.

And the truth is that as a bunch of simpletons, we have followed down this road of prophylactics for so many generations that we are now horrified to learn where it has led us. Yet, we protest only the destination, not the path that led us there. What kind of logic is this?

Looking at this another way, doesn’t the Bible teach us that it is wrong to judge another while we have a beam in our own eye? Are not we told to cast out the beam from our eye so that we can see clearly to cast the mote from our brother’s?

God is pro-life: He would like to know if you would join him.

Ron Hamman is pastor for Independent Baptist Church of Wasilla. Contact him at 357-4229.