****01. Life Comes from God
• Gilman M. Ostrander: The American nation had been founded by intellectuals who had accepted a world view that was based upon Biblical authority as well as Newtonian science.
• The Founding Fathers declared their dependence on God in the Declaration of Independence.
• Patrick Henry: It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
• The Bible ... is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.
• 1 Timothy 4:7--8 The Founding Fathers of our country had a Biblical worldview.
• In colonial times, the Bible was the primary tool in the educational process. According to Columbia University Professor Dr. Lawrence A. Cremin,* the Bible was the single most primary source for the intellectual history of Colonial America. From their knowledge of the Bible, a highly literate, creative people emerged. Their wise system of education was later replaced by a man-centered system which has caused a steady decline in literacy and creativity.*
• Genesis 1-2 Scripture is very clear that life begins with God, who created all things. Day 6-Genesis 1:24-31: Only the creation of man is described in further detail (Genesis 1:26-27), detailing that man was created in the image of God. Jesus clearly declared that man was created and not evolved (Matthew 19:4 and Mark 10:6).
• The only day in the week of Creation that God declared very good was the 6th day after God created man. God easily could have created a filled earth like He did the rest of creation (Isaiah 45:18). But instead, when He created man, unlike any other creature, He created them as a single pair (Genesis 1:26-27), which shows the uniqueness of mankind.
• Because God is the Creator, that means He is also the owner, for He holds the copyright and trademark on all of creation (cf. Psalm 24:1; Isaiah 44:24; John 1:3; Acts 17:25; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 3:9; Hebrews 1:2; Colossians 1:16--17).
• Colossians 1:16 created is κτίζω (ō), means *to construct, build, or fabricate from nothing.*
Aligns with Genesis 1:1: The Hebrew verb for createdבָּרָא (ârâʾ), means to shape, fashion, create and is used to describe divine activity to create something out of nothing.
• Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27), and in fellowship with Him (Genesis 1-2), which is never said of any other aspect of creation.
• Man was commanded by God to replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over all of creation (Genesis 1:28), thus any attempt to equalize the human role with other aspects of the created order is an insult to God and humans. We were created to have dominion over all of creation, not to be equal to it, or worse, to prefer creation over people.
• When Adam and Eve sinned (Gen 3:1-7), they sinned against God (Ps 51:4), breaking their fellowship with God. They once were able to commune with God, and now cast out of the Garden (Gen 3:23-24), thus making it impossible by man's efforts to be in the presence of God.
• Because of sin, it is now completely impossible by any human effort to enter the presence of God, and only God had the ambition and aptitude to communicate with humans. Once Adam ate of the tree (Genesis 3:6-7), the effects of sin settled into their bodies, bringing along with-it death and decay. The curse that God placed on the 3 participants of sin (Genesis 3:14-19) is still wreaking havoc upon all of God's creation, and one of the biggest is the separation between God and man.
• Upon the 1st sin, man did not lose the image nor likeness of God, he lost his fellowship with God.
• We fast forward to the 3rd Dispensation: Dispensation of Government: Genesis 8:15-11:32. Scofield writes that a dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in respect of obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God.
• Genesis 9:3--7 mankind is now allowed to eat meat as long as there is respect for the sanctity of life and the government of man by man for man, specifically that of capital punishment. Man is now responsible to govern the earth for God, and sadly the governance that is offered throughout this world is a governance of promoting oneself and agenda, and not unto God.
• In Genesis 1:27, we saw that God created man in his own image. Now after the Flood, God forbids murder (Genesis 9:5--6) since man is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27; 1 Corinthians 11:7; James 3:9).
• Romans 13:4 When Paul wrote this letter to the 1st century Jewish believers in Rome, they were under the rule of Nero, who persecuted Christians to no end.
• Tacitus writes about this time: Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.
• Genesis 9:7 The responsibility of man before God is to replenish the earth and rule righteously, and that is done with the knowledge that life comes from God.
02. The Right to Life
• Alienable: 1. Chiefly Law. Capable of being transferred to the ownership of another; able to be sold or given away. Thus, unalienable means something that cannot be taken away!
• The Founding Fathers believed that these certain unalienable Rights of *Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness* are given by God, thus only God can remove them.
• The 5th Amendment of the Constitution: *No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of la*w...
• Thomas Jefferson: God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever...
• The Founding Fathers didn't award us our rights, they stated that these rights are from God. They believed that God created all men with a Right to Life. They cited the Genesis account of Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:26--29). Scripture shows us that all men are created equal, and the Declaration of Independence recognizes this fact. Our nation's Founding Fathers recognized that life came only from God and that life is deserving of liberty, so much so that they were willing to die for these rights.
• When did it change? When mankind changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (Rom1:25)
• The Supreme Court DOES NOT bestow rights to the people, for rights DO NOT come from the government. As we have seen, our rights come from God, and God never gave the right for women to murder their babies.
****03. Abortion
• We believe that life begins at conception, but let's look at books written by scientists:
• Langman's* Medical Embryology*: INCLUDEPICTURE "https://abort73.com/images/medicaltexts/medicalembryologyvol13.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET “Development begins with fertilization, the process by which the male gamete, the sperm, and the female gamete, the oocyte, unite to give rise to a zygote."
• Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology: Human development begins at fertilization when an oocyte (ovum) from a female is fertilized by a sperm (spermatozoon) from a male."
• Essentials of Human Embryology: “Human embryos begin development following the fusion of definitive male and female gametes during fertilization... This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development."
• Patten's Foundations of Embryology: ontogeny, of the individual."
• Pathology of the Fetus and the Infant: INCLUDEPICTURE "https://abort73.com/images/medicaltexts/pathologyfetus_infant.jpg" \* MERGEFORMATINET “Every time a sperm cell and ovum unite a new being is created which is alive and will continue to live unless its death is brought about by some specific condition."
• Hippocrates), which is still used in most graduation ceremonies of many medical schools' states: *..** regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary* *to produce abortion... abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption**...*
• Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood in Brooklyn, NY: ered*.*
• The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
• We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population...
• I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world -- that have disease from their parents.
• “birth control" intending to stop the reproduction of people who were considered “less fit." In her writings from “Morality and Birth Control“Birth Control and the New Race," the founder of Planned Parenthood “cleaner race." Her vision for contraception was to prevent the birth of an individual who believed she was unfit for humanity.
• Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. Birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective.
• Margaret Sanger's ideology for Planned Parenthood was cemented in eugenics. “unfit" for the human family.
• Margaret Sanger, publicly condemned abortion. She called it “dangerous and vicious." In attempting to distance contraception from abortion, she wrote in 1932 that “no new life begins unless there is conception." In other words, Sanger knew that a new life begins at conception—and she knew that abortion entails "the killing of babies."
• The Guttmacher Institute: In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.
•...black women consistently have had the highest abortion rates, followed by Hispanic women (see chart). This holds true even when controlling for income: At every income level, black women have higher abortion rates than whites or Hispanics, except for women below the poverty line, where Hispanic women have slightly higher rates than black women.
• This means that on average, 1 out of every 4 black people has been murdered by abortion!
• Part of this is because black women get pregnant more often than white women, and black babies are 3.5 times more likely to be aborted than white babies.
• No matter what you think about abortion, the fact that it disproportionately purges members of the minority community is an important sociological issue.
• United States Census Bureau: out of almost 332 million people, only 13.4% are black, yet 38% of black babies are aborted!
• Compared with white women (60% of the population), yet only have 35% of all abortions!
• The CDC states that 35% of 2016 abortions were performed on non-Hispanic white women; the Guttmacher Institute places the 2014 number at 39%.
• The abortion ratio for black women is 401, for every 1,000 live births, there are 401 abortions, which means 28.6% of black pregnancies will end in an abortion, not counting miscarriages!
• Compare that with white women, whose abortion ratio is 109 (for every 1,000 live births, there are 109 abortions), which means 9.8% of white pregnancies end in abortion.
• Many surgeries carry the risk of harm, but the purpose is to heal the patient. However, the clear intention of abortion is to cause fatal harm to the embryo or fetus.
• X) or Partial-Birth Abortion:
the abortionist pulls a living babya pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter (tube) into the wound, and This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby.
• Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 negates this by stating the ban only applies to living babies, but to bypass it, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) advises abortionists to kill the baby by injection before performing the procedure.
• If anyone needed more proof that a baby in the womb is a legally protected human, many murders of pregnant women are charged with 2 murders and not one.
• Ronald Reagan: “I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
• John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail on July 3, 1776:
*I am apt to believe that [a Declaration of Independency] will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.*
