Don't be ridiculous....do you honestly believe that He would ask us to stand by passively and love the monster that is killing the most innocent of His creations?
I can forgive those who do me wrong, as much as I can pray for the misguided to be shown the right path. That is a totally different issue than the real evil that is being perpetrated through the abomination of abortion. Evil needs to be extinguished, or else it is reinforced.
So, consider this in the same context....Ecclesiastes 3:8, “A time to love, a time to hate, a time for peace, and a time for war.” Anyone who doesn't believe that this is a war between good and evil is sadly naive!
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Don't even think about suggesting that I'm being ridiculous. I'm being every bit as "ridiculous" as Christ Crucified: " unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness".
do you honestly believe that He would ask us to stand by passively
Try to read what I wrote. Really. I neither said that, nor implied that. For you to suggest otherwise borders on slander.
love the monster that is killing the most innocent of His creations
Matthew 5: 43You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy. 44But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: 45That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. 46For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? 47And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?
Is anyone more my enemy than an abortionist? Does Jesus leave any wiggle room there?
It is for this very reason that I pray for the conversion of the abortionists; Jesus instructs that I must love them. One definition of "love", in theology, is to desire the good of another. I this case, the good I desire for them is conversion. That so-called "monster" is, in fact, a human being, created in the image and likeness of God ... but in whom that image is grossly distorted by both original and actual sin. He is a sinner in need of a Saviour.
That is a totally different issue than the real evil that is being perpetrated through the abomination of abortion.
I agree that abortion is an abomination. So is the fornication, adultery, and (failed) contraception that leads to abortion. Is the woman who seeks abortion innocent? Are the family and "friends" who pressure her to abort, innocent? Hardly. There is abomination enough to go around.
Matthew 7 1Judge not, that you may not be judged, 2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3Any why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? 4Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Are you any less a sinner in need of a saviour than the abortionist? I certainly am not. God has saved me, and continues to save me, from the perdition my sins surely merit. What, then: Am I to wish perdition on some others, or pray that they too may be saved?