Abortion in the USA

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I think the United States is about to make a very serious mistake, therefore, I’m not going to pull any punches in this essay. The enemy of Jesus Christ and of mankind wants to set the United States into hostile opposition against God on an issue that God has spoken very plainly about. I’m not going to mince words about abortion: it is murder of the innocent on a national scale.

God spoke very clearly about murder in the very first book in the Bible when He had just created Adam and Eve. Their first-born child murdered his brother because he was jealous of him. He feared that God would kill him in retribution, but God instead, marked his head with the mark that contained a warning “If anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over” (Gen 4: 15).

What a disgraceful way for the newly created human race to begin its journey through life. But it doesn’t end there, murder and death are characteristic traits of the human race. It is characteristic because God also created angels and one third of them rebelled against God. Murder is typical of evil, and of Lucifer, the self-appointed embodiment of evil. In John’s Gospel, Jesus calls him “a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). All the offspring of Adam and Eve eventually offended God by their wickedness and were destroyed by the great flood, except for the family of Noah (Gen 6: 9-17).

Murder and oppression of humans all through history

All through human history, the world has witnessed unimaginable oppression of primitive cultures by stronger and more sophisticated cultures. Even after World War II, when one would think we would have evolved into a gentler relationship with weaker nations, our nation, instead, engaged in brutal wars against undeveloped nations who wanted to govern themselves and pursue foreign relations contrary to what America wanted. We went to war with both Korea and Vietnam when they sided with the Communists instead of with us.

Men have been combative with one another on a personal level and have fought duels to the death even for trivial reasons. Duels to the death with swords was practiced during the mediaeval period and were even practiced in America in New Orleans, despite the Church’s attempt to have dueling outlawed. Swords gave way to dueling pistols, a fight to the death between two hot-tempered men quarreling over the injured pride of one or both of the pugilists. Today dueling is prohibited by law in most countries, but movies featuring shoot outs by the characters are still a mainstay in Hollywood. The world does not seem to frown on murder, especially when it takes the form of entertainment.

The development of the Jewish Nation

From the beginning, the Israelites had problems with surrounding nations. They wound up in Egypt and eventually found themselves enslaved by the Egyptians.  With a great show of power, God broke down the Egyptian culture and allowed the Jews to escape slavery. God then appointed Moses as leader and prophet for the Jews, and God wrote His commandments on stone tablets. God does not want murder to be so commonplace in the world He created.

When Moses was coming down from the mountain, he heard the Jews celebrating a festival to a pagan god. Moses got angry and broke the tablets containing the commandments. God, seeing the Israelites worshipping the golden calf instead of honoring His commandments, sent a plague upon the Israelites: “And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made” (Ex 32: 35). God then wrote on a second set of stone tablets, “Thou shall not kill” (Deut 10: 4).

The wickedness of earlier civilizations.

The neighbors of the Israelites in the Middle East practiced human sacrifice where, typically, young children were set aside to be sacrificed to the pagan gods. Beautiful, innocent young children were trained for several months in what their attitude should be when presented to the god in sacrifice. The sacrifice was usually carried out by placing the child into the arms of a statue that had a fire within that killed the child (this was worship of the demon Moloch).

What a brutal way to kill your own child. Sodom and Gomorrah became such wicked cities that God destroyed the entire cities containing the whole population with fire and brimstone (Gen 19: 1-14) even after Abraham pleaded with God to spare the city if ten righteous men could be found there. Ten could not be found, but God spared Lot and his wife and two daughters (Gen 19: 15-17).

We all heard of the Roman Empire and how it is considered the foundation of our modern Western World. I wonder how well we understand the gladiatorial contests the Romans were famous for, the fights they sponsored for the entertainment of the people, when men, usually prisoners, were pitted against each other in mortal combat in public arenas. These contests lasted a long time and were abandoned only when Christianity took over the Roman Empire. (Roman).

The brutal nature of the New World

Almost all early civilizations, the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Inca, and the Chilean empire were predatory and robbed and oppressed their small neighbors to build up their own nations, and they all practiced child sacrifice. When the Spanish conquistadors conquered Mexico, they were surprised the see that the natives in the new worlds also offered human sacrifice to their pagan gods at an unbelievable rate of killing.

People were also used in medical experiments against their will by governments that refused to protect their right to life. I was shocked to hear that the American medical profession experiment with syphilis on a group of African Americans against their will and against their knowledge for 40 years, and 128 of them died from the experimentation (Syphilis).

Nazi doctors were guilty of large-scale medical experimentation forced upon Jews and others deemed sub-human by the Nazi government, like the criminal activity of Dr. Mengele.

The brutal slaying of innocent civilians

We in America have an epidemic of mass shootings by young men, sometimes teenagers. The government blames the shootings on the availability of guns. I think they are wrong. The shootings are done by youth who have no grounding in religion. The United States had forbidden prayer and the teaching of religion in public education. If those youth who commit the shootings knew that God is offended by their murders and that He will punish all who do so, we would have far fewer mass shootings.

Murder is never committed in God’s heavenly kingdom. I do not think God wants to tolerate murder committed even in this life, so compromised by wickedness. I think that’s why God specifically carved His commandments in stone.

The role of the United State in abortion

The 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, has become so well accepted in America that its proponents think it is a matter of self-government to murder the unborn. Too many Americans are taking to the streets to object to the removal of their government-sanctioned right to abortion. My warning to my fellow Americans is not to take your obligations to the God who created you so lightly or you might be easily tempted into a fatal standoff with God. It is never right to take a human life, unless it be in self-defense, punishment for crime, or an act of just war. (Abortion)

The American Constitution claims belief in certain inalienable human rights conferred by God directly on every human being. If all nations had protected the God-given right to life, very few children would have been sacrificed to pagan gods, very few prisoners would have been forced into gladiatorial combat, very few human beings would have been used in medical experiments. There would have been a lot less murder in the world.

The progressive left has been trying to destroy these rights, and they ridicule the brave Americans who fought unjust governments that denied these rights. Today, after the Supreme Court decided against legalized abortion, hordes of American people, especially young women, are demonstrating against the Supreme Court trying to get the court to reverse their position. The Democratic Party is planning to have the right to have abortions placed on the ballot this coming election.

This is one of those occasions when the federal government takes a hostile public stance against the faithful compliance with God’s law. I see disaster for us if this is the way we today treat the God who blessed our nation when it was first formed.

Don’t think you can revolt against God with impunity. If the legislation of abortion is put on the ballot and you are wicked enough to vote for it, in violation of God’s often repeated prohibition of murder, I predict your leftist government will not survive to sponsor another free election

Why murder of innocents is so frequent

Are you shocked that there is so much unjust murder in the world? I will give you my opinion. It is not only human beings that are commanded to love and obey God. The angels are also. Two thirds of them did comply, and they form the very large group of holy angels in heaven. Since they freely chose to comply with God’s command, God has blessed them with grace-filled character, and they retained their free will that will never defy God. God did not do that for us humans or for the devils. The devils defy God because they are too proud to love and obey the God who created them.

God did not confirm humans in righteousness because He wants us to struggle against the evil influence of the devils when it is possible for us to refuse obedience. Actually, it is very difficult to obey God in every circumstance because of concupiscence, the innate attraction to sin that God has saddled all humans with. But some humans actually do it. They have the honor of displaying that they will not defy God, even when they are tempted. They are appreciated by God because even in their imperfection, they refused to disobey God. This stands in marked contrast to the devils, who, when they were perfect, they did refuse to obey God. Part of their reward is to become confirmed in righteousness when they enter heaven.

Devils are not only confirmed on their way to hell, most of the special powers and blessings God conferred upon them that they threw back into God’s face are going to be distributed to those humans who proved faithful to God. So why is there so much murder in the world, even ritualistic murder? I think it is due to the contempt of the devils who want to ridicule God for His righteousness.

Conclusion

My advice is: forsake abortion. It is a devilish sin, and it is going to destroy all of us. There is no good reason for it. Our difficulties with a culture of promiscuity, rape, and seduction are due to our government’s decision to ban religion from public education. They would not ban science from public education because everybody knows how stupid the average American would be if he never studied science. People don’t realize how wicked the average American can be if he never studied religion.

Religion is our attempt to connect with the God who created all of us. There is a lot of confusion in this world about who God really is and what His teachings are. But a government that ignores all teaching of religion is creating a culture of undisciplined monsters that no state can control.

We are in a world today that is rapidly approaching nuclear war that routinely ignores warnings from heaven like Blessed Mother’s warning that she can no longer hold back the hand of her Son from chastising the world (Chastise).

My friends, it is really later than you think. Please do not take offense at what I write, but take my warning to heart, and save your own neck as well as your countrymen.

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21 thoughts on “Abortion in the USA”

  1. Mr. Williams—I hope I will be allowed to close our exchange with a quotation which is entirely in accordance with your answer to me; it is by the Rev. Ira Lambeth, uttered before the Anti-Saloon League in 1915:
    “God wants to kill the liquor traffic through His organized omnipotence, the Church of God, and I believe that the Church of God at its weakest and worst is better than any other institution on earth at its strongest and best. The liquor traffic must die, and we are here to pronounce your sentence, O King Alcohol! You call yourself a king and yet you lift your red fangs, red with heart blood of the hundred thousand men you have murdered this year, and looking into the resolute faces of American churchmen and prohibitionists you plead, Mercy! Mercy! But you die!” (Odegard, Pressure Politics, p. 158)

    1. Hello Bob,

      Thanks again for another comment on my article. You mention a speech by Rev. Ira Lambert about alcohol, presuming these are the sentiments I hold. I do not recognize Rev. Lambert as a spokes person for the religion I hold as true and actually endorsed by God.

      The speech sounds hysterical and prejudicial. It is a good example of why I do not recognize any church outside of the Catholic Church as a safe guide for our pilgrimage through life.

      Hopes this helps you understand where I am coming from in my essays.

      Sincerely,
      Maurice A. Williams

  2. Maurice, I think we understand. You believe everything is not only answered by your understanding of the Catholic Church, but should be enacted into civil law. That is theocracy. It’s the same concept the radical Muslims want with Sharia law. Its adherents believe it must be imposed because “God wants it” and if they don’t enact their belief system, they claim that nation must perish or be punished. It’s the same gnostic-style thinking shared by terrorists around the world. A form of social narcissism.

    The United States is actual very different. What was distinct about the United States is that it was not a theocracy, and in fact the First Amendment to our Constitution says that no religion or religious dogma shall be established by the government. It was made First among the Bill of Rights for a reason. The Founders saw the misery, war, persecution, corruption, dishonesty and bloodshed set loose upon the world when nations establish religions and then fight each other for dominance of the alleged “true” religion. Theocracy is the antithesis of the American experiment. The First Amendment creates space for each person to worship and believe, in personal humility and respect for others, according to his own conscience, without interference, dictation or repression from the government. Your position is more the view of the Divine Right monarchs of Christendom – a failed experiment in governance shown from here to sundown to be backward and ultimately terribly corrupt serving only the interest of a handful of people at the top of the society, and which did not even promote the “morality” it claimed to have a monopoly on.
    It’s a profoundly unAmerican view.

    And, because it shares so much in common with the thinking of monomaniacal terrorism, it is profoundly to be feared and resisted as a threat to peace, safety and the rights of individual conscience.

    1. Hello Mary,

      Thank you for reading my article and for your comments. You may think I’m annoyed by harsh criticism of my essays. I am not annoyed. My ambition is to bear witness to the veracity of the mission of Jesus Christ and to help Catholics, actually everybody God created, to understand what God revealed so that they do not fail in their own mission to save their own souls.

      I can see that, like Bob, you live in a different world than I live in, and with your distortion of everything God revealed, how can you think your way through that misinformation? So, let’s start at the beginning.

      In the beginning, only God existed. And He always existed. Nobody knows where He came from. It was like that for an eternity before He created anything. Surprisingly, He is three persons in one nature: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Through His divine Son, He created the entire universe with billions of human beings and many angels, all the animals, rocks, minerals etc. that make up the universe.

      He said He wanted to create man as a sovereign person with free will to (naturally) love God and serve Him and be happy with Him forever in His heavenly kingdom.

      Since humans and angels have free will, they have the ability to refuse to love and serve God, but this would have disastrous results as we all can see from the conduct of humans during human history. Lucifer is behind all of that rebellion against God. God could have avoided the possibility of humans revolting against Him, but He would have to create them without the gift of free will. He did not do that because lacking free will humans would be little different from animals. He wanted humans in His own image and likeness: free sovereign persons.

      We all should know the few years God sent His Son, Jesus, into this world to counteract the influence of Lucifer and teach humans how to live their lives pleasing to God. God created the human nature of Jesus and let His divine Son be the operating person of Jesus. So. Jesus is one person operating through two natures. Jesus founded the Catholic Church to represent Him on Earth and to bring God’s blessings and healing to the very much battered human race because of the influence of Lucifer. Lucifer has come up with every conceivable reason why we humans should not trust the Catholic Church. You have mentioned a few of them.

      You claim I think everything in existence can be answerable by the Catholic Church. That is true. God Himself established the Catholic Church, and God knows how He wants us to worship Him. It is not true that what Catholics want is the same as what radical Muslims want with Sharia Law. God wants us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves and to show love and compassion to everyone we encounter. The very first line in The Koran also states this “In the name of Allah the infinitely compassionate and merciful etc.”

      The Catholic Church does not encourage terrorism. I don’t know what has been done by some Catholics in the past, and I am not responsible for their misbehavior any more than I am responsible for the misbehaver of today’s pedophile priests. I have written essays encouraging pedophile priest to repent and give up their evil ways just like I write essays to convince political governments to repent and give up their evil ways.

      There is such a thing as “true religion,” the one God started, the Catholic Church. I can sympathize with Muslims because they really think Islam is the religion endorsed by God. Even if they do think Islam is the religion endorsed by God, I would find fault with them if they practiced terrorism against non-believers.

      Human beings are very wicked, and everything they do is spoiled by their wickedness. It is true that medieval monarchs spoiled their kingdoms by their own failure to live up to the moral standard of God. I do not excuse what they did. I would try to talk some sense to them and encourage their repentance. But a monarchy is what God has in mind for ruling his heavenly kingdom. Jesus Christ is God’s chosen King of heaven, King and High Priest, and with him at the helm, heaven will be exactly as good as God desires.

      One last point, every single one of us, when we die, will be confronted by the God who created us. My best advice to everybody is to live your earthly lives so that you are not confronted by a very disappointed God when you leave this life.
      So, in a very brief outline fashion, I have outlined my thinking on the politics that should be operating on Earth. I hope this will help you understand where I am coming from.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

  3. Mr. Williams: If I may, I would like to pursue my Prohibition/Pro-life parallel a little further. Much of the opposition to Prohibition was due to the view that certain religious groups were trying to impose their moral standards on the general population (see, e.g,, Odegard, Pressure Politics (1928)). Today there is a strong feeling among many abortion supporters that Pro-life is an attempt to stuff Catholic views down the throats of non-Catholics (a feeling reinforced by the Supreme Court Catholic majority in Dobbs). While I’m sure you do not share this view, it does exist, and the Pro-life movement will have great difficulty in establishing an enforceable anti-abortion regime unless the movement can figure out how to counteract that view. Your ideas?

    1. Hello Bob,

      You and I are connected to different worlds. You are wrapped up in the political world where states require you to obey them, and if you refuse, they will arrest you, imprison you; maybe even execute you.

      I have chosen to connect myself to the spiritual world ruled by God and His appointed King and savior, Jesus Christ. God requires my obedience also, actually He requires the obedience of everyone, since it was He who created all of us. If we steadfastly refuse obedience, He will not merely kill us: He will punish us in hell for the rest of eternity.

      If you didn’t already realize it, nobody can kill us in the sense you think of death. God Himself will refuse to kill us, making us extinct. He created every human and every angel immortal. Once created, every one of us will always exist. I think you do not understand this.

      The world pits us against God, enticing us to do our own thing rather than obey God. It stands to reason that eight billion humans and uncountable angels are not going to view life the same as each other. There must be an order to what they do, a moral order. God has revealed that moral order, and it must be obeyed by everyone if everyone has a happy and well-adjusted relation with everybody else.

      If anyone refuses to obey, that disrupts the peace and tranquilness that must prevail among sovereign persons exercising free will in heaven. This is the world I’m in. You must understand this to understand my essays.

      Moral conduct is not an option for political systems to accept or refuse. It is mandated by God. I mentioned the Nazi dream of the Third Reich in my answer to Mary. They defied God killing the Jews. They would not even listen to the pope, so God let political events punish them. When the war was over this Third Reich, which the Nazi’s boasted would last 1000 years, barely lasted 12 years. At the fall of the Third Reich there was hardly a building left standing in all the cities of Germany, and Russia was intent in punishing the Germans even further. Your countrymen, my countrymen saved Germany from further punishment through the Berlin airlift.

      The Pro-Life movement is not some political system the Catholic Church is trying to stuff down your throat, it is a response to defend the inalienable human right to life conferred by God onto every human on Earth. Every state on Earth should recognize that. That’s what motivates us Catholics and Protestants to insist that our country complies with God’s decree. We are certain that Defiance against God will cause ruin for us on Earth and probably eternal damnation for us in the next life.

      I hope you understand my position on this issue.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

  4. Maurice – in responding to Bob, it seems to me that you yourself have mixed religion and politics. Your arguments are all religious. Bob’s argument was whether certain moral choices should be legislated for or against by secular legislation. The reason prohibition of alcohol didn’t work is not because alcohol is moral, but because most people didn’t believe the state should forbid it; and attempting to do so just created a class of legal scofflaws. Bob’s argument is similar: large numbers of people will disagree with the Catholic moral position, especially to the extent it is presented as a religious position imposed on secular affairs, and they will hence oppose the prohibition of abortion (at least until later in the gestational term) and create a large class of scofflaws who undermine respect for civil law, much as Prohibition did (and created a lot of organized crime to boot). I understand Bob’s argument to be one of prudence and pragmatic regard for not pushing the law too far for doing more harm than good.

    1. Hello Mary,

      Thank you for reading my article and thanks for the comments on what Bob said. You criticize me because all my arguments are religious. Of course, they are religious. I’m a religious minded man, and I am posting my comments on a Catholic website.

      You point out that Bob’s argument was whether moral choices should be legislated for or against by secular legislation. I think any political state that legislates for approval of a morally wrong position is headed for disaster. The southern states legislated for permission of slavery, which without a doubt is a moral issue. This brought the United States into a political struggle whether to allow slavery or abolish slavery.

      I think most American’s today realize that slavery is morally wrong and it was correct thinking to abolish slavery. The South had a difficult time realizing this for political reasons, but I think, if the United States had not abolished slavery during the civil war, a much worse war would have had to be waged later on. And today, we Americans are still suffering from repercussions of the slavery our previous generations practiced.

      Another morally wrong issue is Germany’s attempt to exterminate the Jews. During the war, Germany would not even consider that the Holocaust was wrong. They started a world war to make the world safe for their Third Reich with its eradication of Jews. God must have been outraged over what they were doing. There was nothing short of all-out war that other nations could do to stop Germany.

      All-out war is a political solution, and it is not good for humankind to experience wars, but it did lay Germany prostrate when Germany surrendered, and Nazism is no longer a political policy of any nation.

      Think about it, if God wants abortion stopped, He has every resource imaginable to bring it about. I think we should be very careful that we are not on the wrong side if God decides to put an end to abortion His way.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

  5. I’ll try this out on you, since you’ve thought a lot about the issue. There is a remarkable parallelism between the Prohibition movement and the Anti-abortion movement. Both were/are religiously motivated (prohibition Methodist/Baptist; anti-abortion Roman Catholic, with some evangelical support); both thought in terms of moral absolutism and extreme abolitionist solutions; both rejected half-measures and compromise. If this parallelism holds true, it does not bode well for Anti-abortion in the long term.

    1. Hello Bob,

      Thank you for reading my article and for your comment. It does looks like a remarkable parallelism, but it definitely is not. If anything, it is a clumsy way of making apples equivalent to oranges and then drawing conclusions from the hypothetical similarity of apples to oranges.

      First of all, alcohol is permissible in modest quantities. It is not even sinful to drink alcohol in modest quantities. It does become sinful when one knowingly drinks enough to become drunk. Abortion, on the other hand, is always sinful. Is so sinful that God has warned the human race many times they must not kill (in an act of abortion). Prohibition is a political issue; abortion is a religious issue. Your question makes the mistake of nixing politics with religion.

      Positing Protestants as opposed to alcohol and Catholics as opposed to abortions fails to recognize that both Protestants and Catholics are Christians, and as Christians, sincere people in both groups really do try to put an end to abortion.

      Just as there is only one God, there is only one heaven, and only those acceptable to Jesus Christ can enter the kingdom of heaven. Your argument has made the huge mistake of mixing religion with politics.

      If one pays attention to religion, one has a good chance of being acceptable into God’s heavenly kingdom. If one is motivated only by politics, even I don’t want to guess at that person’s chance of entering heaven.

      Bob, this is a Catholic website You should be inspired by this website to try to find your way into heaven. Don’t spoil it for everybody, especially yourself, by bringing politics into consideration.

      Hope this helps,

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A, Williams

  6. I wish we had the earliest Gospels. If you take Luke at his word, there were already “many” of them floating around before he even began his research (1:1). Except for Mark, they’ve all been lost.

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  8. Maurice, oh of course no hard feelings. You didn’t write the book, as it were. I’m just noticing all that killing in a way I hadn’t previously. I’m glad I learned it young. I’m not sure if I first heard it all in later life I would have continued paying attention.

  9. Maurice – I actually do know a lot about Christianity, having been a faithful one for more than 70 years. But there can be an effect being a cradle Catholic – the things that are so familiar, you tend to take for granted. Like reading your essay today, and noticing for the first time how often God killed His creation, then said “Thou shall not kill.” I believe there is a difference between how God approached things in the Old Testament and in the New Testament after the the Resurrection. I suppose it’s good I learned Christianity early in life because as an adult learning it new I might have too many questions! Thank you for your answer.

    1. Abuelo de Muchos (and my apologies to Maurice for jumping in here): Recall that God is perfect – in every way. Also God’s ‘approach’ to things will never change because he is unchanging.
      When it comes to knowledge and wisdom we are like ants compared to Him. He is all-knowing and all-wise. We on the other hand, are trying to figure out how to fuel our cars and arguing amongst ourselves about how to govern the colony effectively.
      If you see incongruity in the story of the Flood or in His destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah it is because you are not God. We are mere human beings. Recall Isaiah 55:8-9 – “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
      All we can do is keep His commandments and trust in Him. His wisdom, His love for us, and His perfect justice and mercy are way beyond our understanding.

    2. Hello Abuelo,

      I want to clear up an issue you brought up about God killing too many peope when He punishes the wrongdoer. I base my faith in God not in what I think He should do but in His revealed word of what He actually did.

      The very first book in the bible tells the story of the great flood in Genesis when the bible predicts “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.” (Gen 3: 17).

      The flood is mentioned again in the New Testament (2 Peter 2 -5) “and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly.”

      In Matthew 24:39, Jesus, himself, predicts when God will end the world: “And [people] knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall it be at the coming of the Man.”

      I think it is obvious that God will punish mankind any way that seems productive to him. Not everybody that gets killed in a flood or a plague goes to hell, but the wicked society they built will perish.

      When God sent the Israelites into the Holy Land to conquer it by killing everybody there, that does not mean that all of those people went into hell. It meant their time in this life was finished just like when you die or I die, our time is up. The God that had us killed is perfectly able to bring us back into the next life where eventually he will restore our bodies with immortal bodies.

      God appeared in Old Testament times to Abraham and told him that The Lord is on His way to Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy those cities for their wickedness. Abraham got into the famous discussion with The Lord, that if there is 50 righteous men in those cities, would God not spare the cities for the sake of 50 men. The Lord said He would. Then Abraham kept lowering the number of just men. The Lord agreed to spare the cities for the sake of 10 righteous men. Then the Lord disappeared.

      It turns out that only 4 righteous people were found in the cities Lot, his wife and 2 daughters. The two angels did destroy the cities, but advised Lot to take his wife and daughters to safety, The Lord was willing to bargain with Abraham but not willing to spare those cities if there were only 4 righteous people there

      At the end of the world, there will probably be multiple billions of people present. They will all die to this life and enter the next life. I think that is fair enough for me, and I would not go on record calling God a murderer for something He has a perfect right to do.

      I hope there is no hard feelings between us. I am trying to bear witness to the teaching of Jesus Christ because I know that only He can bring us into His kingdom. When somebody tries to show that I do not understand His teaching, I get worried “am I really wrong?” In this case I do not think I am wrong.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

  10. But we are made in God’s image. Can it be that the image shall not kill, but the source of the image can kill at will? I’m not sure saying God is so far above us, he can do whatever he wants, is very comforting. What kind of God kills at will, especially without regards to relative guilt or innocence, which presumably doesn’t matter if God decides a slaughter is in order?
    Yet Jesus, who was God and had the power to kill, never chose to do so, even when – according to morality – he had the right to do so in self-defense.

    Is it possible that God changed His own rules from the Old to the Nee Testament? I feel there may be a more complex answer here.

    1. Hello again

      It is true that God made us in His image. He is pure Spirit and created each one of us as free persons. We resemble Him in being free. But we are billions in number. All of us billions of humans, and very many angels, have to choose God’s will otherwise there will be chaos in God’s creation.

      There actually is chaos in God’s creation as we all can see, with too many individuals following their own will rather than obeying God’s will. So, what does God expect from us? He made it very plain in His revelation: we must obey God. He issued ten commandments everyone must obey so that only God’s will is operating in the world.

      This seems like a limitation, but it actually isn’t. If God did not give us free will, we would be vastly different than we are. We would be like marionettes, slavishly doing God’s will.
      We would be unable to do something good simply because we wanted to. We would never be able to show God that we love Him by doing things that we know He likes out of our own initiative. We could not even have a heart-to-heart conversation with God because without free will we are not persons. God really did create us as persons, sovereign.

      This is where evil comes in. Anytime anyone disobeys God, evil is manifested. Each one of us must discipline ourselves to obey God. Sounds easy, but it is not. Angels are far superior to humans. Not having bodies, they are primarily thought, powerful thoughts. If an angel decided not to obey God, he is not likely to ever change his mind.

      One third of the angels chose not to obey. They are led by Lucifer, who is mentioned by name in the bible (Isaiah 14:12). If they do not want to obey God, they will try to overpower God, kill God if it were possible. But God is all-powerful and cannot be killed, and God is perfectly capable of overpowering all the devils whenever He wants to.

      The devils try to get humans to serve them rather than God. God permits this and helps humans in their warfare with the devils. This is where evil gets as bad as we see it in the world. And this is the struggle we all have to endure if we want to get to heaven.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

  11. I was just reading the history of murder in the article. The author noted the sacrifice of children to Moloch, and notes “what a terrible way to kill your own children.” No disagreement there. But then it occurred to me that I had just read that – during the Flood, after the worship of Baal, and in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in other instances – God himself had murdered thousands if not millions of His own children. Because he was dissatisfied with them for something. This incongruity has never registered with me before, although I’ve been familiar with the Old Testament since childhood. How to reconcile all this divine slaughter of His offspring with “Thou shall not kill”? Or with the sanctity of unborn life? It is hardly a comfort to say, ‘well, that’s God and He gets to do all the killing.’ I am troubled in realizing this fact this morning, my fellow readers. Who can explain this?

    1. Hello Abuelo de Muchos,

      Thank you for reading my article and thanks for your comment. I have to give you some background before answering your comment.

      There is a world of difference between God and us created beings. All of us created beings have to answer to someone for what we do, someone who knows why we exist and how we should conduct ourselves during our lives. That someone is God. He not only knows why we exist: He is the one who gave us existence when He created us.

      God is so far superior to us that none of the limitations of humans apply to Him. He brought us into existence and He is privileged to remove us from existence.

      Take existence for example. We know death is ceasing to exist, but God talks about more than one kind of death. There is the cessation of living in this present life, but after we cease living this present life, there is the next life awaiting us. And God speaks of a spiritual life as well as a physical life. God created each of us to be immortal. No human dies and is gone; we all pass into the next life, and the next life lasts forever.

      We shouldn’t be so critical of God. He sets the moral code we all have to obey in order to please Him, but He does not have to comply with that code Himself. Nobody can enter the next life unless they die to the present life. And God will present us with a much better spiritual life after we die than before we die.

      Murder is the cessation of life, but it has a very much different meaning than simply being killed. Murder means the unjust and sinful way of ending a human’s life. To say that God murders anyone is a total misrepresentation of the facts. God does not murder, He is God, He, being the only God that exists, has a perfect right to bring anyone’s mortal life to an end so that that person can start his immortal life.

      We all have to die if we want to enter the next life. God knows what He is doing; so, if a Mass die off occurs, we should not criticize God for it.

      Sincerely,

      Maurice A. Williams

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