Worldviews
Saturday, August 10 2024
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Abortion, reproduction, and family is the combined manifest cultural and political watershed of our times and a bigger issue than we sometimes perceive. A watershed can be considered a turning point, or historic moment, but geographically it is a dividing elevation like a mountain ridge which channels all water running below it in one of two different directions. So why abortion et al? As far as we know Humankind are the only beings in Heaven and on Earth made in God's Image and given the custodianship (the sober duty and astounding privilege), of filling the earth with the Image of God. Being made in His Image we were to make the Invisible God visible in our realm, like light-bulbs turning invisible electricity into light in all areas of a dark room. All of our reproductive faculties, the multiplication of children, and the stable nursery and security of family were given to us for the purpose of launching God reflecting Images into this world and the enjoyment of that privilege. When seen in this light, all the laws, prohibitions, ceremonies, and history in the Old Testament surrounding human reproduction, sexuality, and family that may seem very strange to us in the 21st century, have one manifest message to us, the sanity of human life and our reproduction. God counts human life and all things related to our reproduction and families as "Sacred". In other words, our sexuality is not just about us, it's about our duty and responsibility to God to fulfill our purpose. To deny that is to defy our Creator, act in contempt of His purposes for us, and lose our own identity and path in this world. And we must confront this on a spiritual level, because the attack of abortion is leveled ultimately at God's Image by the evil one. From the beginning it has been his design to thwart God's plan. It has been to stop it, spoil it, pervert it, make it ugly, murder it, anything to thwart the presence of the light of the Image of God in the realm he now has to occupy. Humanity is his enemy and abortion is a manifestation of his wrath. In other words the heart of the issue is even deeper than the merciless killing of human infants, it is the effacing of God's reflected presence. And today it is a manifest cultural watershed because the culture of those who side with it must ultimately be understood to be self-destructive and blinded to their own self destruction by the evil one. So that those who do not protect pre-born human infants (the most harmless and vulnerable of all humans) should not be expected or trusted to protect humans of any age after them. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute there have been 63 million abortions in the US since Roe vs Wade in 1973 and 1,037,000 in 2023 alone. Yet the odious term "genocide" is used to describe eradication's of races, ethnic groups, and political and religious groups of far- far fewer numbers. So depopulation has now become a serious concern for much of the industrialized world both due to the prevailing practice of abortion and the abandonment of humanities purpose in lieu of self serving lifestyles. Those whose "choose" this life style will by their own choices of necessity eventually abort the future of their own presence in history. While those who seek to carry out their callings are seeking light, survival, and continuance of their race before God. It is an issue on an historic level and a turning point for humanity.
May God Bless,
Jonny
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