Excellent article, thank you. I appreciate your application of Frame’s triangle. In the post, you mention that Biblically, taking a human life ranks the highest amongst sins (so to speak). While agree with you, I am also looking through scripture a bit to see where it says that explicitly. I see plenty of implicit passages (Cain & Abel is a simple start). Is there anywhere that the Bible explicitly calls out murder as “the worst” of sins?
This was helpful. On abortion, I'm with you. I'm for outlawing it. However, I'm less persuaded than ever that this position is the obvious and only one a consistent American believer can take. While I believe abortion is a form of murder, it is a very different form than all others. We will never eradicate it, particularly in an age when medical/technological means are available to quietly kill the unborn long before the mother has any outward manifestation of being pregnant. I'm still agin it, and want it banned, but I can see the perspective of those who acknowledge the evil at play but don't believe criminalization is the answer. The fact that the abortion rate is now lower than it was before Roe also complicates the view that criminalization is a biblical no-brainer.
Lot of good insights. Been struggling to wrap my head around all this. Thanks.
Excellent article, thank you. I appreciate your application of Frame’s triangle. In the post, you mention that Biblically, taking a human life ranks the highest amongst sins (so to speak). While agree with you, I am also looking through scripture a bit to see where it says that explicitly. I see plenty of implicit passages (Cain & Abel is a simple start). Is there anywhere that the Bible explicitly calls out murder as “the worst” of sins?
This was helpful. On abortion, I'm with you. I'm for outlawing it. However, I'm less persuaded than ever that this position is the obvious and only one a consistent American believer can take. While I believe abortion is a form of murder, it is a very different form than all others. We will never eradicate it, particularly in an age when medical/technological means are available to quietly kill the unborn long before the mother has any outward manifestation of being pregnant. I'm still agin it, and want it banned, but I can see the perspective of those who acknowledge the evil at play but don't believe criminalization is the answer. The fact that the abortion rate is now lower than it was before Roe also complicates the view that criminalization is a biblical no-brainer.
Excellent! I'll be sharing this one.