If Heaven is the Goal, Then Every Evangelical Christian Should be Pro-Abortion

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4 responses to “If Heaven is the Goal, Then Every Evangelical Christian Should be Pro-Abortion”

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   September 4, 2024

   Benny S

   Thanks for this Bruce. I’ve never understood the Evangelical “age of accountability” thing, which (I don’t think) is even biblical. What is biblical (even though I reject it), is that we’re all born with a sin nature, inherited from Adam and Eve. Therefore, with this inherited sin nature, no one is allowed to enter heaven without the covering of the blood of Christ. If a woman miscarries (according to an accurate theology), then the fetus goes to hell, because of Adam’s and Eve’s inherited sin nature (God can’t be in the presence of any sin nature). If the woman has a successful birth, but the baby dies a week later, then the baby goes to hell (again, because God can’t be in the presence of any sin nature). If the child lives to the ripe old age of 4 years, but is still too young to understand repentance and is sadly struck to death by a passing car, influenza, or whatever, the 4-year-old goes to hell (yadda-yadda). That seems to be a more accurate Christian theology (which of course demonstrates how f_cked up the theology is).

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   September 4, 2024

   Matilda

   In the UK, parish church graveyards had a section of unconsecrated ground where stillborn babies and those who had died before they could be baptised were buried. Vicars were on call 24/7 to rush.to conduct a baptism so the child could be buried alongside other family members in the church yard.My daughter as a new curate near a big city hospital was on a rota to do this and did get called out occasionally in the night to baptise a dying baby. She found it hard naturally but knew it gave comfort to traditional anglican parents in a very terrible situation.

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   September 4, 2024

   ObstacleChick

   One of my friends from childhood posted the same concept on her social media page a couple of years ago, and boy, did she get jumped on! She’s more liberal and progressive in her politics, which I’m sure she struggles with while remaining in evangelicalism. Anyway, within hours she had deleted the post. I thought it was a valid question.

   Benny’s description is one I wondered about too – that all “unsaved” people went to hell due to original sin, even if they were toddlers too young to understand. Of course, this is why the Southern Baptist church I grew up in had that nebulous “age of accountability” concept that no one could pinpoint the age, naturally, but in the 80s I was told “about age 12”, like how old Jewish boys were when they went through Bar Mitzvah to “become a man”. That seemed kind of reasonable to adolescent ObstacleChick. And it coincided with the age at which my family put a ton of pressure on me to “make a public profession of faith”. I think evangelicals just wanted to not feel bad about tiny children going to hell if they died young. I was dismayed to see that those churches are now baptizing kids as young as 3 or 4 now….that doesn’t seem right. Did their theology shift that much, or do churches just want the boost in number of baptisms per year?

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   September 4, 2024

   velovixen

   As I understand, modern neuroscientists say that humans don’t mature–which is to say, their brains don’t fully develop–until around the age of 25. So, in essence, a person can be “accountable” for a decade or more before they make an intelligent, informed decision.

   But if you die before you reach “accountability,” you’re damned for not making such a decision.

   Hmm….

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