attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:59 am
On the abortion point:-
1. I did not kill a child (a child is developed beyond an embryo or foetus)...and I would NEVER kill a child.
Well, here's what the advocates of abortion do: they just arbitrarily "define away" the life of the child. He's just been conceived...not a child. He's second trimester...still not a child. Third trimester...not a child. In process of birth, with one toe still in mother...not a child. One millisecond later, "It's a child."
No part of that makes sense, or is remotely scientific. The abortionist is actually being quite demonic. They all know what they are doing, but they set out to convince vulnerable women that it's okay anyway...maybe even good.
Abortion kills children. Everybody knows it; there are really only two types of people -- those who will admit they know it, and those who are choosing to lie.
You can't have a conversation with the ones who lie. The truth is just not in them about that. Abortionists lie.
Now, there's a better way than the way of the abortionist. Sometimes a person has to own what he or she actually did. It's the road to forgiveness. Abortion is a sin; but there is forgiveness for sins...even the murder of a child. But one never has forgiveness for what one will not admit guilt.
my sage or God when it spoke to me
New Age spirit guide, I guessing?
4. I do not advocate abortion and in hindsight, even though I was very young and in no financial situation to raise a child, I wish I hadn't.
Why not?
If abortions aren't evil, it doesn't add up that you would feel bad and wish you hadn't done it. After all, it wasn't a child, right? So it doesn't matter if it died, and it couldn't be "reborn" anywhere, since it wasn't a child anyway. There was no
person to be reborn, then.
But the truth is that you know. You know what abortion is, and you know that you killed a person. That's why you need the elaborate work-around to justify it. Otherwise, you'd just say, "I was glad it's gone, because it was never a child." But you don't believe that.
Neither do I. At last we agree on something. You have something worth grieving there. You have my sympathies. I don't want to condemn you. I'd like to see you get free of the guilt, though. #3 and 4 show you're still struggling with that.
7. I attempted suicide in 2003 because of it
Again, there could be only one explanation for this. You were in deep grief and guilt. You have my sympathy. I can't imagine how hard that was.
I'm sorry you've been through that. But here's what I really want to say to you: God forgives. All you have to do is confess, ask, and trust Him.
That is, after all, what being a Christian is all about. God knows who you are. He made you. You are not an unwanted child. He knows what you've done. He loves you, and will forgive you. He has made a way. You do not have to be alone. There is freedom from guilt, yes, even the guilt of something like that.
And let's face it: all your suffering hasn't really helped you, has it? You're still going over the same territory. That's because none of us can actually atone for our own sins. We all need forgiveness: me first, and you too.