The man shot a person in the forehead at church. Although I abhor everything the doctor stood for and practiced it is not my place or yours or Roeder’s place to judge and convict him. ‘Judgement is mine sayeth the Lord’. Where does it stop? Is it OK to kill someone who blasphemes? Is it OK to kill someone who gives less than a tithe? Is it OK to kill someone who lies on a resume? Who are we to rank the severity of sins in God’s eyes?
Is it OK to kill someone who blasphemes? Is it OK to kill someone who gives less than a tithe? Is it OK to kill someone who lies on a resume?
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We are not talking about someone who blasphemes or doesn’t tithe enough. We are talking about someone who rips unborn viable babies limb from limb to extract them from the womb. This is MURDER in my book and in the Lord’s book. The Bible does not mention abortion specifically by does state in the book of Exodus:
“And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life.” (Exodus 21:22-23)
Other verses exhort us to protect those who cannot protect themselves and tell us that not to do so is a sin.
“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 82:3-4
“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?” Proverbs 24:11-12 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9 “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4:17