The abortion issue has divided the nation more than anything else since the Civil War. Will it drive us to Cotton Mather Colonial religious government and death penalties? Abortion will serve as a catalyst, bringing religious worship to center stage.
Chapter 1: Efforts to Impose Dogma ....................................................... 1The Roe v. Wade decision struck a blow at Roman Catholicism and its authority. Pro-life forces have eroded pro-choice influence and laws supporting abortion rights. Church demands require Catholic public officials to place church teachings above the Constitution. Chapter 2: Abortion LegislatioN ........................................................... 19A Bill to Provide That Human Life Shall Be Deemed to Exist From Conception hearings. A democratic society cannot function effectively with forced motherhood. The Bill of Rights was provided to preclude religious subjects from political controversy. Chapter 3: History of Abortion and the Judiciary .................................. 35Pagan religions opposed abortion and executed those participating in them. Abortion was legal until quickening in Colonial America and the U.S. until the late nineteenth century. Catholic abortion history reveals its harmony with paganism, not Roman/Greek culture. Chapter 4: Freedom of Choice: How Important Is It? ................................ 42Humanity is created with free moral agency. Control by others
was not God’s plan. Government properly exercises arbitrary
force on those who infringe on the rights of others. Restricting
abortion threatens the foundations of pluralistic constitutional
government. Chapter 5: Constitutional Issues ........................................................... 57Latin American abortion laws cause incredible numbers of deaths of mothers denied legal recourse. The Constitution must protect the consciences of all people and not force them religiously. Freedom of choice, the Golden Rule, is a universal principle that allows no exceptions. Chapter 6: Roman Catholic Theology ...................................................... 86Pope Pius IX’s 1869 Apostolicae Sedis declared fertilized eggs were living humans. The Code of Canon Law excommunicates automatically for abortion but not for murder. “Every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life. Chapter 7: Scripture — A Basis for Understanding .................................. 109First and highest duty of rational beings is to learn truth, follow it, and share it with others. The Scriptures are the Creator’s manual on how to care for our minds, bodies, and others. Scripture reveals how we can become similar to God and what the future holds. Chapter 8: Is the Soul Immortal? Where Do We Go From Here? ................... 134The devil’s first lie in Eden contradicted God’s truth that the wages of sin is death. The false teaching of natural immortality is the basis of personhood at conception. This pagan immortality doctrine came into Christianity through Roman Catholicism. Chapter 9: Abortion Law in the Scriptures—Accidental and Induced ......... 157Accidental cause of miscarriage required a fine for loss of valued property—not a person. God established an abortion procedure for a woman who conceived out of wedlock. Chapter 10: Anti-Abortion But Pro-Killing ............................................. 163Egyptians executed any who aborted, but the government killed baby boys after their birth. Today some oppose abortion but kill people to save fetuses, like the confused Egyptians.. Chapter 11: Puzzling Passages Made Plain ............................................. 168God sees fetus development, even though it has no days or life, only borrowed life. Mistranslated Scripture calls pregnancies “with child.” The original states, “conceived.” Scriptures require the spouses to submit to intimacy except by common consent for fasting. Chapter 12: The Birth Process Culminates in Life and Personhood ........... 181There is no life without breath, nor personhood without life that comes from breath. Animals and humans die in the same way—as one dies, so does the other. No difference. The life in the blood is oxygen. Until birth, mother’s blood provides borrowed life. Chapter 13: A Non-Person When a Pregnancy Fails ................................. 190Scripture teaches that the non-born, still-born, miscarriages, and abortions are non-persons. Job complains for not being miscarried, for “I would have been as though I had not been.” Chapter 14: When Does Personhood Begin? ............................................ 196God formed man, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being. Independent breath begins human life and personhood. “A time to be born and a time to die.” Birth begins life; death ends it. Chapter 15: Personhood and Quality of Life .......................................... 214A person has capacities of reflective choice, rational responses, and social experience. Powers to think and to do are basic qualities of personhood. The biblical portrait of “person” bestows God-like abilities, which develop after birth. Chapter 16: Law’s Lasting Legacy ......................................................... 230Without universal principals of law and order, life and development would be impossible. By observing the Creator’s laws, His likeness is developed in our lives. Eternal life and immortality have always been conditioned on perfect obedience to law. Chapter 17: Spiritual Birth .................................................................. 247Spiritual birth must come from above, from
God, and be received by the individual. One cannot have
spiritual life without being born again—not merely be conceived
spiritually. The new birth experience Chapter 18: Spiritual Life ..................................................................... 263This life comes to those who desire to follow God, denying self and taking up their cross. Life is a battle between man’s fallen nature and God’s divine nature planted in his heart. We must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. God makes it possible. Chapter 19: Spiritual Love ..................................................................... 288Without love for God and man, there is neither God-likeness nor hope of life after death. Where love is perfected, the law is kept and self finds no place. There is harmony with God. Loving and knowledgeable submission to God enables His character to become ours. Chapter 20: Ancient Worship Crises ......................................................... 306Ancient worship crises were recorded by God
for our learning and understanding. When man displaces God as
the object of worship, societal stability suffers. When
government and other elements force Chapter 21: Historical Persecution: Coming Again Soon ............................ 323Christ’s persecution and His death will be
repeated at the end time against His faithful. Religious leaders
and government combined to punish non-conformists. Christ
predicted His followers would be Chapter 22: The Papacy and Worship ......................................................... 336The leading Christian power has been the papacy, which has insisted on worship conformity. Prophecy predicted that the papacy would change the day of worship. Catholic authors predict that no new world order will exist without the papacy heading it. Chapter 23: The Day of Worship ................................................................ 356God placed His seventh day of worship in the very heart of the Ten Commandments. God has promised special blessings of peace and joy in Sabbath worship and fellowship. Christ is Lord of the Sabbath, and He kept it holy as an example to all of His followers. Chapter 24: Prophetic Future ................................................................... 378God has planted a natural curiosity in man about what the future holds. Scriptures unerringly outlined the course of events to the end of the world for our benefit. God warned that false prophets would rise in the end time, denying the truths of Scripture. Chapter 25: The United States in Bible Prophecy—Part I: History’s Most Unique Nation .... 400Revelation predicted the rise of the United States from obscurity to being a superpower. Founders repudiated the established religion and religious death penalties of the Colonies. The new nation was founded as a secular government, guaranteeing freedom of religion. Chapter 26: The United States in Bible Prophecy—Part II: The Coming Global Genocide .... 421Escalating threats to world survival place religion on the front burner as never before. The abortion issue and Sunday sacredness become the most controversial global issues. Universal economic sanctions and death penalties will be imposed on non-conformists. Chapter 27: The United States in Bible Prophecy—Part III: The Mark of the Beast .... 443The Beast, whose number is 666, is unmasked as the coming world dictator. Conservative religious powers will control the government to force their religion on all. Those serving self will receive the Mark of the Beast and die the second and final death. Chapter 28: Judgment — The End of the World ......................................... 473God’s Ten Commandment law is the basis of the judgment. Every human being will be judged. Only two groups of people exist—those lovingly loyal to God and those who serve themselves. God gives His last warning to mankind to be transformed, to qualify for immortality. Chapter 29: Survival — Ours Is at Stake: Destiny and Duty .......................... 502Unending crises in society internationally will make this planet one giant foxhole. The greatest crisis is in the heart, between fallen nature and serving the God of survival. Receiving the love of God and living His law of liberty will provide a shield for survival. Chapter 30: End Without Beginning ............................................................ 528Those rejecting God’s character will ask for death rather than see Christ or be with Him. The lost are consumed quickly, not burning without end. God performs a mercy killing. All that is left of the self-seeking is ashes, all such having been consumed by the glory of God. Chapter 31: New Beginning Without End — A Dream Come True ........................ 549At Christ’s soon coming to earth, the loyal — dead and living—will be granted immortality. Earth is recreated to reflect its original Edenic perfection, to be inhabited by His loyalists. All tears, pain, sickness, and sorrow will be forever wiped out, never again to be experienced. Chapter 32: Conclusion ............................................................................. 564Rebellion caused a loving God to become human, to live and die perfectly to save us. Man has doomed himself by serving a fallen angel who rebelled against God’s law. God has emptied heaven and spared no cost to deliver us from ourselves.
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