10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." ---
Loving, caring, and forgiving, not condemning.
I feel like He would be comforting someone who just went through something like that, if they wanted it. I feel like he would spend His time (and DID spend His time) teaching people how to respect life and love others, not creating more laws forbidding sinning. If someone doesn't follow God's law, what makes anyone think they will follow George Bush's law?
That being said, I am absolutely anti-abortion.
The reason I almost never get involved in abortion debates is that the root of all this comes to personhood. I don't think it's something people can agree on and without that, there's no way to come to a reasonable conclusion. So, mostly I just stay out of it.
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Date: 2008-02-15 12:25 am (UTC)---
Matthew 9:10-13 (New International Version)
10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
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Loving, caring, and forgiving, not condemning.
I feel like He would be comforting someone who just went through something like that, if they wanted it. I feel like he would spend His time (and DID spend His time) teaching people how to respect life and love others, not creating more laws forbidding sinning. If someone doesn't follow God's law, what makes anyone think they will follow George Bush's law?
That being said, I am absolutely anti-abortion.
The reason I almost never get involved in abortion debates is that the root of all this comes to personhood. I don't think it's something people can agree on and without that, there's no way to come to a reasonable conclusion. So, mostly I just stay out of it.