Posted on 04/02/2002 4:57:13 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
There's a big difference between "family planning" using contraception and "family planning" using abortion. I can't believe this man of the cloth is trying to justify what they do using this argument. He virtually admitted and described the slippery slope of what has happened in this country re: the sanctity of life.
Because you can either say "It's okay to murder children" or you can say "Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life".
You can't say both and pretend you're serious and/or sane.
Isn't it time Methodist stopped hiding their heads in the sand, picked up their bibles, blew off the dust, even though that action could very well cause another dust bowl, and start reading and studiying it.
This is one of those statments that begs for the question: "What are your sources on such an outrages statement?"
Yes, God gave us free will. He also gave the angels free will and look what some of them choose.
This is a travesty and makes me proud to be active in not only the pro-life movement, but the Catholic Church which has never wavered from her teaching that abortion is murder.
God bless the unborn babies, the aborted babies, and the women being deceived into blackening their soul.
Corsaro and other Main-line Protestant denominations wouldn't be officially pro-choice if they followed the Ten Commandments. That's why they're losing members and not attracting conservatives.
We left our Main-line church (Presbyterian) and recently became members of the pro-life CONSERVATIVE Wesleyan denomination.
Those of us who either are or have been affiliated with the United Methodist Church are well aware of the liberal perception, but there is a significant movement among more conservative Methodists to fight the liberal intrusion.
See these links:
Good News
Unofficial Confessing Movement
Christian Methodists
It gives some women the spiritual justification, the spiritual stamp of approval they need. What's going to happen is these women are going to go through the same emotional agony in later years.
Pray for the changing of hearts and minds of women seeking abortions. Pray that they receive the care and support they need to keep their babies. Pray that they have the courage to say yes to life even in the face of difficulties.
The simple answer?
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. - I Corinthians 2:14
This poor deluded woman needs to be "born from above". She needs to quit playing religion and meet Jesus Christ. I am fearful that she will meet Him not as Savior, but as Judge.
2000 years ago the first Christians opposed the Roman practices of abortion and infanticide on the grounds that the taking of human life was prohibited by God.
This woman needs to make a decision as to which side she's on, God's side or the world's.
In the meantime (and with respect to your comment), I understand there are those who try to stay and fight from within. (I used to be PCUSA, so I can relate.) However, there comes a time when one must ask - can God bless this entire effort? We decided He would not and went where He was blessing instead.
I probably should've made it clear. We haven't been United Methodist since college (I graduated in 1980). As much as I loved the UM church I attended in college, my wife and I have not found, in the areas where we live, an acceptable UM Church (where we thought God attended). We encourage and pray for our brothers and sisters who stayed in the UM. We have many friends from college who are UM pastors. But we recognize we were not called to that fight.
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