The Value Of Human Life And The Hands Of God
Based on God’s Word, let’s answer the question, “What has God done that gives value to human life?”
The Image Of God And The Value Of Human Life
Some Christian defenders of the value of human life will argue that since human beings were created in the image of God human life has special value. Others will argue that this is improper since the image of God was lost when Adam and Eve sinned.
Abortion Slogans
This study lists a number of statements often used to justify abortion and examines them in the light of God’s Word.
Adoption – An Act of Love (A Bible study)
Rev. Charles Loring Brace is credited with beginning the institution of adoption in the U.S. around 1854. Having a deep concern for many children in the New York City slums who had been abandoned and were often starving and “drifting about our streets,” he formed the Children’s Aid Society. This organization sought out towns, usually in the Midwest, that were willing to place children in adoptive homes. In 1854 the first “orphan train” left New York City with 46 orphans from age seven to fifteen bound for Dowagiac, Michigan. There they were chosen by farm families eager to give them homes. Over a 75-year period, nearly 100,000 children were sent by trains to find adoptive homes in the Midwest.
Forgiven in Christ
“I am forgiven in Christ Jesus, God’s Son. My tormentors are forgiven in Him, and I pray that they know this by faith. You too are forgiven in Jesus—no matter your particular sins or regrets—you are forgiven. Look to the cross of Christ. Therein is God’s peace toward you. There is mine.”
Biotechnology and God’s Word
While mankind has benefited from the blessings of biotechnology, especially in medicine and home life, the corrupted human nature strives to redefine the meaning of humanity through the premise that “the end justifies the means.” As long as the end is for the greatest number and their pleasure and happiness, then the Biblical teaching that God is the Author and Creator of every good and perfect gift is set aside and trampled on by those who would abuse scientific progress for personal gain and self-fulfillment. In C.S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man he addressed this tyranny of corrupted man saying, “man controlling man using nature.” The beginning of mankind’s tyranny and exploitation by mankind is set in the Garden of Eden and Satan’s temptation of Eve and Adam.
Abortion and the Christian Faith
We live in an age of attempts to shut God out of life and to make individual choice supreme. “If it feels good, do it.” “If you think it’s right, then it’s right for you.” God’s Word, however, makes it clear that it is not for any of us to discern right or wrong on the basis of what we think or feel. In no issue is that truth more vital than abortion …
The Father Who Speaks – A Bible study for fathers
Dr. Randall Shields authored this excellent Bible for fathers several years ago.
Into His Loving Care
Dedicated to the mothers and fathers who mourn the loss of a child’s life through miscarriage or stillbirth.
Adoption – God’s Way – A Bible Study
We live in a world of growing numbers of unplanned pregnancies, birth control abortion (1.3 million each year), child abuse on the rise, children living in poverty, and young men and women for whom the assumption of parental responsibilities for the babies they bring into the world presents a crisis. A Bible study about adoption serves a much needed purpose by focusing on adoption as an honorable, positive, and productive choice-a choice that can be a blessed and satisfying solution for both birth parents and adoptive parents, the adoptee, and society.
Adoption has a prominent place in Scripture, with examples of God’s Word revealing adoption as a life-affirming and enhancing decision for many individuals.