Introduction

I was convinced of the pro-life position before I knew what the Bible said.

In 1971 I was studying simultaneously Formal Logic, Biology, and Criminal Law at Michigan State School of criminal Justice.

It was apparent to me that the American Law Institute’s plan for abortion reform was unscientific and relied on inherently illogical reasoning (fallacies).

Since then, as a Bible Christian, I have collected these resources for you.

Paul Stam

Apex, NC

August 2022

LESSONS ON HUMAN LIFE FROM THE BIBLE

(Translation: New American Standard Bible NASB)

Psalm 139  ¹³ You created my innermost parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
My soul knows it very well.
¹⁵ My frame (skeleton) was not hidden from You
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully formed in the depths of the earth;
¹⁶ Your eyes have seen my formless substance (embryo);
And in Your book were written
All the days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them. 

Jeremiah 1  ⁴ The word of the Lord came to me (Jeremiah), saying,

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
Before you were born, I consecrated you;
I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Exodus 21

²² “If people struggle with each other and strike a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, but there is no injury, the guilty person shall certainly be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide. ²³ But if there is any further injury,then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Deuteronomy 24  ¹⁶  “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.

Deuteronomy 30  ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, ²⁰ by loving the Lord your  God, by obeying His voice, and by holding close to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, so that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

Job 31  ¹³ “If I have rejected the claim of my male or female slaves
When they filed a complaint against me,
¹⁴ What then could I do when God arises?
When He calls me to account, how am I to answer Him?
¹⁵ Did He who made me in the womb not make him,
And the same one create us in the womb?

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, (the fatherless)
Because I saw I had support in the gate, (at the place of judgment)
²² May my shoulder fall from its socket,
And my arm be broken off at the elbow.
²³ For disaster from God is a terror to me,
And because of His majesty I can do nothing.

2 Kings 21  ¹⁶ Furthermore, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin into which he misled Judah, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 

Psalm 106  ³⁵ They got involved with the nations
And learned their practices,
³⁶ And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and their daughters
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was defiled with the blood.

2 Kings 21  ² [Manasseh] did evil in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel. ³ He rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the heavenly lights and served them.  ⁶ He made his son pass through the fire, interpreted signs, practiced divination, and used mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger. 

        Worship of Moloch & Asherah

        – sacrifice of 1^st born to prove dedication to the god

        – Asherah pole involved a fertility rite, including ritual prostitution,

           both male and female.

The king of Judah practiced this and led his people to tolerate it.

Is the worship of Moloch & Asherah different than practices today?

1. Sacrifice your first child to us. Prove your dedication to pleasure. Over 1/3 of first pregnancies end in intentional death.
2. We’ll give you the tools for promiscuity and prostitution so that you may practice without shame. The practices of Moloch & Asherah are institutionalized at the highest level – killing is paid for by the government and immorality is encouraged. Follow the story.

Our Lord is a gracious God – eager to forgive, to be reconciled to man to extend his salvation.

The abominable practices of Manasseh did not last forever.

In the time of Josiah, the young king found and read the law.

2 Kings 23  ⁶ [Josiah] took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord  and burned it. He ground it to powder.  ⁷ He tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes.

¹⁰ He desecrated Topheth so no one could use it to sacrifice a son or daughter in the fire to Moloch. 

¹³ The king desecrated the high places of Ashtoreth, the vile goddess of the Sidonians. ¹⁴ Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

Then King Josiah celebrated Passover.

2 Kings 23  ²¹ The king commanded the people, saying, “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” ²² Truly such a Passover had not been celebrated since the days of the judges, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. 

2 Kings 23  ²⁵ Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart, all his soul, and all his might, in conformity to all the Law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

With such total house cleansing and obvious repentance, it sounds like all would be well. NOT.

2 Kings 23  ²⁶ Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. 

2 Kings 24  ³ It indeed came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them from His sight due to the sins of Manasseh, in accordance with everything that he had done, ⁴ and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord was unwilling to forgive. 

And into captivity in Babylon they went for 70 years.

Jeremiah 29  ¹ These are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile. ⁴ “This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says to the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 

⁵ ‘Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. ⁶ Take wives and father sons and daughters, take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may give birth to sons and daughters; and grow in numbers there and do not decrease. ⁷ Seek the prosperity of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord in its behalf; for in its prosperity will be your prosperity.’ 

Conclusions:

¹⁰ “This is what the Lord says: ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. ¹¹ For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. ¹² Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Proverbs 24  ¹¹ Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to the slaughter, Oh hold them back!
¹² If you say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He who weighs the hearts not consider it?
And does He who watches over your soul not know it?
And will He not repay a person according to his work? Rescue those being led away to death.

Malachi 4  ⁴ “Remember the Law of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him for all Israel.

⁵ “Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. ⁶ He will turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with complete destruction.”

Isaiah 54  ⁵ For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the Lord of armies;
Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the God of all the earth.
⁶ For the Lord has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,”
Says your God.
⁷ “For a brief moment I abandoned you,
But with great compassion I will gather you.
⁸ In an outburst of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting favor I will have compassion on you,”
Says the Lord your Redeemer.

FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT: WHAT DID JESUS DO TO

TEACH US THE VALUE OF CHILDREN BEFORE THEY ARE BORN?

(Translation: English Standard Version ESV)

Luke 1 – Birth of John the Baptist Foretold  ¹³ The angel said to  Zechariah, “Do not be afraid, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John (the Baptist). ¹⁴ You will have joy and gladness. Many will rejoice at his birth. ¹⁵ He will be great before the Lord. He must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. ¹⁶ He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, ¹⁷ and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.” ⁴ After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, ²⁵ “Thus the Lord has done for me.”

Birth of Jesus Foretold ²⁶ In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to Nazareth, ²⁷ to Mary, a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David (and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Judah).           ²⁸ Gabriel he came to Mary and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” ²⁹ She was greatly troubled at the saying and tried to find out what this greeting might be. ³⁰ The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid. You have found favor with God. ³¹ You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus (means “God saves”). ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David. ³³ He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. Of his kingdom there will be no end.”

³⁴ And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” ³⁵ The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you. The power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. ³⁶ Behold, your cousin Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. ³⁷ For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mary Visits Elizabeth ³⁹ Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country (about a week), to a town in Judah. ⁴⁰ She entered the house of Zechariah and greeted  Elizabeth. ⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴² She exclaimed with a loud cry, “[Mary] blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! ⁴³ Why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴ For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

⁵⁶ Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home. (Six months plus three months equals _______ months.)

The Birth of John the Baptist  ⁵⁷ The time came for Elizabeth to give birth. She bore a son. ⁵⁹ On the eighth day ⁶⁴ [Zechariah’s] mouth was opened, and he spoke, blessing God. ⁶⁶ All who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child (John the Baptist) be?”

Zechariah’s Prophecy  ⁶⁷ His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, ⁶⁸ “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people ⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.