Is abortion in the Bible?

Jul 18, 2022 3:45 PM

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FFS it's a medical procedure, that's it.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Wow, it's almost like people care more about their interpretation of the Bible, than what's actually written in it.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

We. Know. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. You medieval failed state

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That's like arguing about spiderman lore. Spiderman ain't real. Nobody should live their lives differently because it says in a book.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Respectfully disagree. I think we all should bear in mind that with great power comes great responsibility.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The classical rabbinical interprets was life begins 30 days after birth. Infant mortality was simply so damn high….

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Essentially, if you could show you were a survivor then you'd be deemed a person.

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I'm tired of people not being able to figure out grey areas. If you wait so long a fetus could survive without you if removed, it's "murder"

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...also: You can't charge ppl with injuring/killing 2 EVERY time it involves pregnant lady if you're so sure it's only 1 until outside vag

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not that I disagree, but that show just sounds like a giant echo chamber.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Seems the first step here is not confusing Catholicism with the Bible..

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Islam might not ban abortion, but I believe that Sharia law does to some extent.

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If you're so ashamed of saying your faith's stance on topics like this... Maybe it's time to get a new faith.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 3

I think this is wonderful. I also think Catholics and Christian’s will use this info to further denigrate Islam and Judaism.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

This isn't info about İslam, that woman is outright lying about Islams supposedly position on abortion.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Well I seem to remember she is right but the limitation is 12(?) weeks

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The wiki page is decent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_abortion

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Psalm 137:9. Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. Don't use the bible for your morality.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

So does restricting abortion infringe on religious freedoms?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every law could be. Depending on how funky the religion is. Doesn’t matter.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Muslim here, she completely incorrect about the Islamic position. Contraception is ok, but no abortion after 3 months (when fetus has life)

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

about as accepted by Muslims as most Christians: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/views-about-abortion/

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

"Is god against abortion." Here's the simple answer. I don't give a fuck. Whether sky daddy likes or not doesn't matter.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Life of the pregnant person comes first. What a concept.

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Can't have more babies if she's dead.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Good logic. But it's also easier to groom and manipulate the young, especially if they have 1 less parent to teach them stranger danger.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

‘Pregnant person’?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I could use a little fuel myself, and we could all use a little... change.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1/ My wife and I watched New Amsterdam while she was pregnant, and at one point one of the characters told her husband "if it's me or the

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

2/ baby, choose the baby." I looked at my wife and told her. "I'm choosing you 100% of the time." I need her on my team, I can't raise a

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

3/ baby on my own, and my wife is worth so much more."

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

You are right. But you would likely rise to the occasion.

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I conscientiously don't want to be in that position, I'd choose to either try again, or go without before picking that.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

ikr?

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I dont give a fuck what any of your little mythical books say.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Numbers 5 described how to perform one as part of a temple ritual.

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Bit hypocritical of the guy to ban abortion,canonically no one has killed more babies than God himself.In fact he makes many of them suffer

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

that plan though...

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I don't care for any of their views. I don't need religion for that kind of question, AT ALL.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I use to think that Japan was a strange place, still do! but America is on another level

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Abortion has been legal in Japan longer than contraceptive pills, IIRC.

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Who gives a fuck if its in the bible? Has anyone actually read that thing? Its stupid whacky shit!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

the bible specifically says life begins at first breath, so being born.

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Cool story. Why should a Muslim, Jew or atheists be forced to do anything the Bible says?

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agreed. they shouldn't

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Well, the Muslim, Jew, and Christian all drink from the same well. They all carry the concept of Pneuma in their texts. That said, they 1/2

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obviously shouldn't... but are you then making a non-religious argument against abortion? 2/2

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This is more saying that Christians aren't even following their own fiction.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

cus theists love forcing their bs on others?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fascists don't care about being consistent, they care about power.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah but these are all women, we need men's opinion, that's what really matters /s

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You should never let a work of fiction dictate you life choices.

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NEVER FORGET YOUR TOWEL

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Now that's just plain good advice right there.

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*Especially* when you take metaphors and stories in that work of fiction as literal fact.

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You can let it INSPIRE your life choices. But Jesus was a teacher using logic, Socratic method and metaphor, not a dictator.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

If we're going with fiction, I prefer Mr. Miyagi.

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As long as you use it to get your shit together and find self-confidence instead of use it as an excuse to beat people up, why not?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But...Star Trek TNG!

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Abstinence is just as bad.

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You're missing the point though... It isn't in the bible. The rule is essentially made up by the leaders of the church.

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Which also makes it fiction. kinda.

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The Organization of Kiddie Diddlers are opposed to lowering the supply of Kiddies to Diddle.

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"But unwanted children are the easiest!"

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I dunno, I pretend to be Will Hunting on the regular, so...

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Me too! I walk around with a mop and solve math equations im the university! I usually get kicked because i dont actually work there and

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just write random numbers on the walls but it really gets me through the day

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You must like apples

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The baaable says that life begins at first breath. It also has handy instructions on primitive abortions without using a hanger.

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Thought it was three breaths….?

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If you go back far enough it teaches you how to treat your slaves, too! Really handy piece of text, that bible is.

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Citation please?

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The Trial of the bitter water in Numbers 5:11-31, Exodus 21:22-25 says abortion ISN'T the same as murder, Hosea 9:14 says that miscarriage

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is god's will (meaning the law has no right to investigate miscarriages or punish the mother), Isaiah 13:18 says killing the unborn is cool,

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

How does that state that the law have no right to investigate miscarriages?

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From a biblical standpoint (aka the justification that christians use) miscarriage is god's will, so investigating is questioning god's will

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Spirit = Breath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneuma#Christianity English translation drops about half the meaning.

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Pneuma is important here because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_the_New_Testament compare also anima and ruach.

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Really? Downvotes? I guess I should have written 'sauce'?

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4 years ago (deleted Jul 20, 2022 1:25 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

What narrative? I just want a citation. Methinks you do infer too much.

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4 years ago (deleted Jul 19, 2022 12:51 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

You're asking for proof of something from a work of fiction which is rather oxymoronic to begin with.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Not asking for proof. JUST THE CITATION.

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Abortion IS in the bible. It includes instructions on how to perform one. The bible does not ban abortion.

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4 years ago (deleted Jul 18, 2022 7:47 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

So it’s not called an abortion if the woman was unfaithful? That is just an abortion. And the Bible allows it. I’ve looked it up and read it

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think she meant that "abortion is murder" isn't in the bible.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

To be fair, it doesn't explicitly say "here's how to end a pregnancy," that's just how some people interpret that passage.

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It also explicitly states that if someone injured a pregnant woman to the point she miscarries it's property theft, not murder

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Wouldn't it only be property theft if the baby was a girl? /s

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It's probably property theft from the father, not the pregnant thing.

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You're right. What's the crime for damage to livestock?

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Usually replacement and a fine on top for the inconvience, I think, though theft also carried loss of hand or other bodily effecting punishm

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This is accurate in scope.

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Technical correct, but I think the question implied "is it [, the characterization of abortion as murder,] in the bible?" Which it's not.

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The best kind

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I am promoting you to bureaucrat grade 36

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An increase of 2 schmekels per day

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The catholic church also establishes life as beginning at first breath, so their position regarding abortion is purely hypocritical.

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"BUT BREATH MEANS SOUL HUR HUR"

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The old testament is also only laws for Jews. Non Jews have the 7 laws of noah but that's it. None of the rest apply

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Read Mathew 5:18

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"but i don't like that one"

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Which part of the old testament is that?

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And you may want to muse on the names "old testament" and "new testament"

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And find some kind of justification why jesus died. For our... For our. You know, idiots keep saying it but I can't recall

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well he did say old testament. and it's Matthew with 2 t's

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He said the OT is only for jews. I shared a verse that refutes that. The OT law still applies to Christians. Just not the sacrificial stuff

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Citation please?

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Not to be a stickler, but this has more to do with making a woman barren. It never actually mentions pregnancy, she just can't conceive.

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Read the actual passage. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%205%3A11-31&version=NIV Specifically verse 27

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I've read multiple sources, it's still technically incorrect translation. We can discuss it in a PM if you like.

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"So, again, Numbers 5:11-31 does not refer to abortion in any sense." - direct quote from article

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It's a test of infidelity. If there is a baby it gets aborted. So it's not explicitly about abortion but it shows God is ok with abortion.

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Well yeah. That answer is a complete lie. The passage is literally describing an abortion. Christians and honesty don't mix well.

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This says it doesn't say it's an abortion, doesn't say she was pregnant. So... no?

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That's the point. I think they're interpreting this passage as including abortion and pregnancy.

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"May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.” -not an abortion lol

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