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- From: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.170443.23758@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: jjprice@c00076-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <C1462t.GJz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan20.201852.25441@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <1993Jan21.204923.16528@ncsu.edu> <v77tln8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:04:43 GMT
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- In article <v77tln8@zola.esd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
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- |>In article <1993Jan21.204923.16528@ncsu.edu>, jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
- |>|God has warned us of many things but we still ingnore him. What makes
- |>|you so sure that he has not warned us against abortion?(not saying that
- |>|he has its just that I haven't read to much of the Bible yet but I feel
- |>|that abortion is something he would not support).
- |>
- |>I've read more of the Bible than you have, apparently. I am "so
- |>sure" that the god of the bible hasn't warned us against
- |>abortion because the few mentions of abortion in the bible are
- |>remarkably vague, and consistent with the idea that the god of
- |>the Israelites thought that abortion was okay.
- |>
- |>One passage seems to assess monetary fines for accidental injury
- |>to a pregnant woman causing a miscarriage or premature birth.
- |>(Exodus 21:22-25) The other passage seems to require an induced
- |>miscarriage (aka abortion) in a woman suspected of carrying a
- |>child not her husband's. (Numbers 5:12-31) The NT seems to have
- |>nothing to say about abortion, even vaguely.
- |>
- |>There's some controversy about the Numbers passage, but it
- |>certainly isn't an explicit "warning against abortion". No such
- |>warning exists, unlike, say, the clear warnings against eating
- |>certain foods or wearing fringes on your garments or having sex
- |>with a menstruating woman.
- |>
- All the quotes you have are from the Old Testament and as I have stated
- earlier that the Old Testament is Old history and no longer valid....
- Although it is useful for studying history all the laws are not valid...
- Before Jesus came the OT was what counted and If I am correct still counts
- taoday for Jews but Christian follow the NT as the Law....
- --
- -Jeffrey Price
- _____________________________________________________________________
- | "When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were |
- | able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not |
- | to go also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with |
- | him to the station?" |
- | "OBJECTION: That question ought to be taken out and shot!!" |
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