05-28-2016, 12:59 PM
(05-28-2016, 11:56 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: I can't speak for bfine, but my personal opinion would be that a soldier kills to protect himself, his fellow soldiers, and, in the end, innocent people that the person he killed would kill, so he is protecting the sanctity of life. A unborn child is innocent and has the potential to live a full and happy life, as well as bring happiness to others and at least help in bringing another human being into the world.
Lord knows that I'm not a big enough bad-ass to be a soldier, but that would be my outlook on it.
Now, if a baby had a gun inside the mother and was going to shoot the hell out of her insides and kill her, then I'd agree with you.
As philhos pointed out earlier this week, according to Christian doctrine we are all born sinners which means we are all start out behind the 8 ball. We are all born on the Highway to Hell, so to speak, and only through God's mercy will that change. We would like to believe Heaven is a performance based endeavor or at least a destination we have control over because of free will. But, God's mercy can be arbitrary. He shows mercy to whomever he chooses to show mercy. He doesn't show mercy to whomever he chooses not to show mercy. For instance, He could choose not to show you mercy condemning you to Hell and choose to show mercy to that POS you know in jail. So that innocent unborn child may live a full and happy life and bring happiness to others . . . and still not receive God's mercy.
In addition, there are some hard core born again Christians that believe the souls of fetuses who die during a miscarriage go to Hell because they weren't "saved." Let me be clear they are a minority and I'm not trying to claim the majority of Christians believe that, but I've read their scripture based explanations for that belief which they are teaching to others. It's just another belief that I can't reconcile with a Creator capable of creating the universe and everything in it to the last detail.
