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And
regarding abortion, what conclusions can we draw from this? Your guess is
as good as mine! Draw your own conclusions. The
speculations about the meaning and consequences of abortion push us deeply into
the age-old, still-unanswerable, religious questions. Here are a few
more unanswerable questions:
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We know the anti-abortionists claim He does, but does God
really create a brand
new soul every time a human egg and
sperm unite? It’s
not in the Bible
and here’s no scientific
evidence to support it, so where did this
belief come from?
Do the billions of people who believe in reincarnation
have a right to practice
their religion?
Are we our physical bodies?
Are we eternal being who simply inhabit physical bodies?
What is this non-physical stuff we call "the mind" or
"spirit?"
If we are
our physical bodies, how do we get to heaven
after our body dies?
If
we are not
our physical bodies, what's all this anti-abortion fuss about?
What’s the purpose of human life?
Why is it that,
prior to circa 1870, the Roman Catholic Church said
that an independent life began three
months after
conception ,
and now they say that an independent life begins
at conception?
Can Divine Truth be arbitrarily changed at the
whims of the Roman Catholic hierarchy?
What does Genesis 2:7°
in the
Christian Bible actually mean? Is
it
correct when it says life as a human being begins
with first breath?
What about Ecclesiastes
11:5, RSV°
in the
Christian Bible? What
does that mean? How
can those who oppose abortion rights
know how "God" works
when even their own Bible tells them
they can't know?
How can
the anti-abortionists adamantly claim religious
freedom
for themselves while denying that same
right to others.
And several dozen more equally
puzzling and equally
unanswerable, religious questions.
.
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Did
you ever wonder what God does with all those brand new human
beings° that get flushed down
the worlds toilets along with a woman's monthly menstrual
cycle?
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When
you examine the abortion issue from
each of the three possible assumptions about
life,
Atheism,°
Religious
One-life-ism,°
and
Reincarnation,°
three very different meanings emerge.
Because
present day technology provides no conclusive answers about which one of these
three assumptions is correct, we are still left with only speculation,
conjecture, guesswork, and personal opinions as to what abortion is and what it
means. Even the technical
data°
we do have has to be interpreted as to what it means and that
again returns us to speculation, conjecture, guesswork, and personal opinions.
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Because there
are no provable answers to this type of question...
Because there are so many different and conflicting opinions...
And because these are questions that have been debated
primarily
in religious circles for centuries.
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this
leads us to a most probable conclusion:
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