Many people
are finally just starting to wake up to the evils of abortion. Many think that
the defunding of the child-murder centre, Planned Parenthood is a victory in
itself which will inevitably lead to the abolition of abortion. However,
defunding Planned Parenthood is like chopping of the bad fruit from a bad tree.
The (bad) fruit will grow again where the roots not eradicated and cast away to
be burnt up in flames. Thus, it is absolutely crucial for all abolitionists to
identify the roots of the child-murder movement, eradicate them and cast them
into the fire.
The doctrines of “rights” in the west
The doctrine
of ‘rights’ which was embraced by the west during the Enlightenment Era lays
the ideological foundation for the child-murder movement. The Enlightenment Era signified a total break
from Christendom: it was a rebellion and backlash against the Church. One
doctrine commonly accepted by the masses during the Enlightenment was that of
rights, a doctrine of the spirit of individualism, humanism and liberalism.
The doctrine of “rights” is
anti-Christian
The doctrine
of ‘rights’ is a fleshly, carnal and worldly one which has absolutely no place
in the life of the Christian. It implies that human beings deserve things. However,
the Bible makes it very clear that none of us deserve anything from God at all
whatsoever, not even a single breath. God in His Sovereignty does not even need
to create us as He is the potter and we are the clay.
God owes us
nothing at all, absolutely and everything good that He gives to us, is by His
grace and grace alone. It is not by grace and some dignity, kindness or love
that any of us deserve that He gives us life. No, it is only by grace that God gives us life. To claim that there is such
thing as a “right” is to not only contend with God’s Sovereignty, but to usurp
it. The doctrine of “rights” is blasphemy and a damnable heresy. Anyone who
believes in “rights”, whether it be her own or that of another, will burn in
Hell.
None of us
deserve to live for all of us deserve to die and burn in Hell for an Eternity. For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God (Romans 3:23). The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). It is plain and
clear. Thus, there is no such thing as a “right” to life as the pro-lifers
claim.
A Call
to Repentance
Any abolitionist who claims that there is such thing as a
“right” to life needs to repent. Such a doctrine is a wicked, blasphemous one
that will not only taint the abolitionist movement – it will sow seeds of destruction, seeds that
the devil plants in undiscerning, immature Christians like the Christians in
the Church of Corinth who Apostle Paul had to address because of their
carnality.
You may
still argue that it is because of
God’s grace and gift of life that He gives to each of us that we have the “right”
to life. You may defiantly and even, in your hostility against those who claim
that there is no such thing as a “right”, insist that you will continue to
fight for the “rights” of the unborn. Claiming a “right” is always that of a
spirit of self-centred, thinking that one is owed something by another because
one “deserves” it. There are only moral obligations on part of all humans, but
no rights whatsoever.
It is
absolutely wrong to murder, and he who murders another person will die in Hell (Revelation
21:8). However, it is not because the murdered person has any right to live
whatsoever that he will go to Hell. Rather, it is because murder offends God,
not the victim that the murderer will go to Hell.
Sin is defined only by God and not
any human being
Sin is
anything that offends God, and it is that it offends God that makes it sin.
That sin might offend, harm or hurt another human has absolutely no bearing on
its wrongness. To argue that sin is a sin because
it hurts, or harms another human, or because it offends God and hurts another human is itself of a
manner of spirit which is self-centred, self-preserving and to challenge the
authority of God as the only One who defines truth, and based on that truth,
what is sin. For He is the Great I AM (Exodus
3:14). God and God alone defines Truth, for Christ who is God in the flesh
said, “I am the Way, the Truth
and the Life” (John 14:6).
The claim
that an action is sin because it
offends or can offend another human, or because it offends both God and humans,
is a damnable heresy. This does not only shamefully elevate humans to a
wrongful position, but it itself a claim that is it not Christ alone who defines
truth, but rather that truth can be defined by humans as well. It is an
abominable heresy! It is an attack on the very character of Christ. This is
because sin is defined by Truth, and Christ and Christ alone is the truth.
“Rights” provides the common ground
between pro-choicers and pro-lifers
It is not
only those feminists who claim that they have a “right” to control their own
bodies who are responsible for the genocide of unborn children. Those from the
pro-life movement who propagate the doctrine of “rights”, specially the “right”
to life are also responsible, all without realising how dangerous the doctrine
of “rights”. It is precisely this blasphemous, self-worshipping, human-centred,
fleshly doctrine that logically leads the pro-lifer to support exceptions to
the prohibition of abortion, such in the case of rape, incest or where the
mother’s health is endangered.
The doctrine
of “rights” itself leads to the
slippery slope of needing to ‘balance’ the “rights” of the mother to life, and
the “rights” of the baby to life. In
fact, this is precisely why some, if not many, pro-choicers are pro-abortion:
to enable a balancing of the “right” to life of both the mother and baby where
there is a ‘hard’ case.
One might
still argue that the pro-lifer believes in saving the lives of both. That may
be true, however, that the pro-lifer seeks to do so is not the issue. The issue
is that the pro-life builds its faulty foundation on “rights”. That is why it
has not been successful, not can be successful in abolishing abortion. As long
as one seeks to argue against baby-murder on grounds not based on the Truth of
the Word of God, such as the “right to life”, one cannot abolish the sin it is
seeking to fight. Evil cannot be fought by evil.
If one
argues for the “right to life”, it logically follows that must also consider
that of all parties involved, that is both the baby and mother. This is where
there no difference between the pro-lifer and pro-choicer who are both seeking
to save the lives of people on the grounds of “rights”. The only difference
between the two is the label.
The doctrine
of “rights” makes the issue of abortion, one of a matter of choosing whose
rights trump over the other. That is precisely the conundrum it sets up, as a
result of not being based on the foundation of God’s Word. As such, the pro-life
movement is like a house built on the sand, destroyed when the winds of
competing “rights” arguments come, such as “right” of a mother to care for her
other children, or “right” to material comfort.
That is why
the Church, and not the pro-lifers, should rise up against child-murder and all
other sins that society accepts, preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and teach
the nations to walk in His Commandments:
Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with
you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen (Matthew 28:19-20).
As long as
the Church seeks rely on the Rock of Christ, the gates of Hell shall not
prevail (Matthew 16:17-19).
Church,
repent of accepting the evil doctrine of “rights”, flush it out of your system,
and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
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