JoeB131
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Because you take a certain verse and cherry-pick it and take it out of context
I'm not sure where there's a context where giving a woman a potion to make her have an abortion isn't an endorsement of abortion. The combination of whatever was in that drink and the stress of being dragged in front of the religious authorities probably made a lot of women have spontaneous abortions (miscarriages).
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works and that my soul knows well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” (Psalm 139:13-16 NKJV)
So that only applies to to Jeremiah, who God planned to have exist before he was conceived. Next.“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 NIV)
But when He who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through His grace.” (Galatians 1:15 RSV)
The actual verse. KJV
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
So he didn't exist until after he was born.
You just tried to pull a fast one, didn't you.The Lord Jesus Christ began his incarnation as an embryo, growing into a fetus, infant, child, teenager, and adult: “While they were there, the time came for the baby to born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.” (Luke 2:6-7a NIV)
Here's that actual verse from Luke.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
Mary was pregnant at the time, and gave birth to her firstborn son while they were in Bethlehem.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
“If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise” (Exodus 21:22-25 NIV)
That's actually an ENDORSEMENT for abortion.
Here's the actual verse.
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Of course, no one gave birth prematurely, if you lost your pregnancy, the fetus died. Heck, the Bible Law didn't count babies in censuses until they were one years old, because infant mortality was so high. So if you hit a woman and the dropped little globby, you paid a fine.