Posted on 10/29/2020 7:20:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Thank you, Abby Johnson! God is using you!
Pride doesn’t kill babies. Boastfulness doesn’t tear them apart in their mothers’ wombs. Arrogance doesn’t cause a baby to flee for their lives as sharp instruments seek to rip them limb from limb while they are still alive. No. Abortion does that and abortion alone.We can’t legislate pride or boastfulness or arrogance. But we can legislate abortion. In fact, we can make it illegal. And that is what is on the line. Life is on the line. The innocent lives of precious babies are on the line. Not pride. Not arrogance.
Grow up. You aren’t voting for prom king. This isn’t a popularity contest.
Word!
Do you think politics doesn’t have a place in our religious communities? I’d wholeheartedly disagree. Unfortunately, we live in a society where sin has crept in and clouded societal judgement, just like it has throughout history, during the Holocaust and slavery. And abortion. I wish we didn’t have to legislate that killing unborn babies is wrong. I wish our society looked at growing children in the womb as Christ sees them: perfect creations with infinite dignity and worth endowed by our Creator.
Amen!
“So when I say that everything that exists — including evil — is ordained by an infinitely holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly, I mean that, one way or the other, God sees to it that all things serve to glorify his Son… By ordain I mean God either caused something directly or permitted it for wise purposes.”
John Piper, Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008), 54. See also John Piper’s sermon “Is God less Glorious Because He Ordained that Evil Be?” http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/conference-messages/is-god-less-glorious-because-he-ordained-that-evil-be (June, 2012).
Here’s another: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/has-god-predetermined-every-tiny-detail-in-the-universe-including-sin
So no wonder Piper sees no problem with millions of unborn children being slaughtered in the womb. His distorted view of God demands it. He flicks off any and all atrocities as the work of God. Thus when it comes down to voting for more or less evil, Piper doesn’t go there. He looks at the personality of Trump and Biden and calls Trump a braggart. Of course all this begs the question: If everything is already predetermined by God, Isn’t Trump’s personality as well?
Absolutely a resounding Amen!
She nails it in this article.
Abortion is an abomination to God.
In ancient days, child sacrifice to Moloch was an abomination to God.
It still is!
Calvinists believe God is sovereign, yes.....
......but we are to ‘ rescue those being led to death;
..hold back those who stagger toward slaughter.
If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this;
Does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay each person according to what he has done’
Proverbs 24 ; 11, 12
I participated in Operation Rescue.....and my Calvinist church supported this decision
Our Calvinist church would stand across the street from our local abortion clinic and pray .....and counsel
Some in the congregation risked arrest.
Some volunteered at the Crisis Pregnancy Center
This is Calvinism in action!
Maybe Piper is declining mentally in his later years,
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