The Bible on Abortion - Part Deux

Here are a few other passages of the Bible which condemn abortion. Note that most Bibles will use the word "hell" instead of "Gehenna". However, there are other forms of "hell" that are used in the Bible, not all of them being a deadly, fiery, abortive hell, so I used The New American Bible, which specifies the type of hell, using the word Gehenna, or Hinnom, where needed.

The Book of Leviticus, chapter 20, "1 The LORD said to Moses, '2 Tell the Israelites: Anyone, whether an Israelite or an alien residing in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall be put to death. Let his fellow citizens stone him. 3 I myself will turn against such a man and cut him off from the body of his people; for in giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. 4 Even if his fellow citizens connive at such a man's crime of giving his offspring to Molech, and fail to put him to death, 5 I myself will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who join him in his wanton worship of Molech.'"

The Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 12, "29 When the LORD, your God, removes the nations from your way as you advance to dispossess them, be on your guard! Otherwise, once they have been wiped out before you and you have replaced them and are settled in their land, 30 you will be lured into following them. Do not inquire regarding their gods, 'How did these nations worship their gods? I, too, would do the same.' 31 You shall not thus worship the LORD, your God, because they offered to their gods every abomination that the LORD detests, even burning their sons and daughters to their gods."

The Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 18, "9 When you come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the peoples there. 10 Let there not be found among you anyone who immolates his son or daughter in the fire, nor a fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner, 11 or caster of spells, nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead. 12 Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is driving these nations out of your way."

The 2nd Book of Kings, chapter 17, "16 They disregarded all the commandments of the LORD, their God, and made for themselves two molten calves; they also made a sacred pole and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They immolated their sons and daughters by fire, practiced fortune-telling and divination, and sold themselves into evil doing in the LORD'S sight, provoking him 18 till, in his great anger against Israel, the LORD put them away out of his sight. Only the tribe of Judah was left."

The 2nd Book of Kings, chapter 23:10, "The king also defiled Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, so that there would no longer be an immolation of sons or daughters by fire in honor of Molech."

The 2nd Book of Chronicles, 28:3, "Moreover, he offered sacrifice in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and immolated his sons by fire according to the abominable practice of the nations which the LORD had cleared out before the Israelites."

The 2nd Book of Chronicles, chapter 33, "1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD had cleared out of the way of the Israelites. 3 He rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had torn down, erected altars for the Baals, made sacred poles, and prostrated himself before the whole host of heaven and worshiped them... 6 It was he, too, who immolated his sons by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced augury, divination and magic, and appointed necromancers and diviners of spirits, so that he provoked the LORD with the great evil that he did in his sight."

The Book of Psalms, chapter 106, "34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, 35 But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways. 36 They worshiped their idols and were ensnared by them. 37 They sacrificed to the gods their own sons and daughters, 38 Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed."

The Book of Jeremiah, chapter 7, "30 The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the LORD. They have defiled the house which bears my name by setting up in it their abominable idols. 31 In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they have built the high place of Topheth to immolate in fire their sons and their daughters, such a thing as I never commanded or had in mind. 32 Therefore, beware! days will come, says the LORD, when Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom will no longer be called such, but rather the Valley of Slaughter. For lack of space, Topheth will be a burial place."

The Book of Jeremiah, 32:35, "They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and immolated their sons and daughters to Molech, bringing sin upon Judah; this I never commanded them, nor did it even enter My mind that they should practice such abominations."

The Book of Ezekiel, chapter 16, "20 The sons and daughters you had borne me you took and offered as sacrifices to be devoured by them! Was it not enough that you had become a harlot? 21 You slaughtered and immolated my children to them, making them pass through fire. 22 And through all your abominations and harlotries you remembered nothing of when you were a girl, stark naked and weltering in your blood. 23 Then after all your evildoing--woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD."
Note: whenever the word "woe" is used in the Bible, it's a curse. The fact that it's used twice in this passage means it's multiplied by 2.

The Book of Ezekiel, chapter 20, "30 Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers? Will you lust after their detestable idols? 31 By offering your gifts, by making your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols even to this day. Shall I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel? As I live! says the Lord GOD: I swear I will not let myself be consulted by you."

The Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 18:
1 At that time the disciples approached Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
2 He called a child over, placed it in their midst, 3 and said, "Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever receives one child such as this in My name receives Me.
6 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 8 If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.
10 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father."

Note that in this passage from St. Matthew's Gospel, Jesus is holding a child, and talking about sin. Then He mentions that those who sin against children will be, themselves, thrown into the fire of Gehenna, which as I mentioned in the previous writing on this topic, is ALWAYS code for abortion in the Bible. In other words, He is saying that if you cause abortion, you will be aborted.

And people say that there is no violence or destruction in the New Testament. Ha!

In my previous post on this subject, I mentioned the Gospel of St. Luke chapter 1. Here's the entire passage from the Douay-Rheims Bible, "41 And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. 42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43 And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy."

The word used twice in there for "infant" is the Greek word brephos. In the passage above, it is used to describe an unborn child. However, it is used also in chapter 2, when the angel is proclaiming the joyful news to the shepherds that Christ has been born, and when the shepherds see Jesus lying in the manger. "11 For, this day is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger." "16 And they came with haste: and they found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger." So, the word for infant in the Gospel of St. Luke, brephos, can be used to mean both a born and unborn child. Meaning, you can't distinguish the two! An unborn child is the same as a born child! St. Luke knew this!

The previously mentioned passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 18, has a parallel in the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 18, where he again uses the word brephos to describe the children, "15 And they brought unto him also infants, that He might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to Me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17 Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it."

You can't be Christian and not be pro-life! It just does not work that way. It cannot work that way! Those who are not pro-life are just kidding themselves. Either that, or they haven't studied their Bible - at least not very well.