Abortion and the Character of God

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What does God think about abortion? Today, R.C. Sproul helps us answer this question and looks at the Christian response to a common claim made in conversations about the topic of abortion.

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0:00.0	And we start calling good evil and evil good, we're in trouble.
0:09.3	I'm supposed to be a theologian by profession, and I've had the privilege of being able to
0:14.5	study the things of God as my life's vocation.
0:19.4	Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure that there are errors in my theology if I knew where they
0:25.6	were I would try to get rid of them.
0:27.5	I want to be accurate.
0:29.4	I want to be faith.
0:31.7	I want to know God, not just abstractly, or academically.
0:36.8	I want to know God personally.
0:40.0	I want to say something bold.
0:42.5	I think God do know it.
0:46.4	Not perfectly, but I know something about God.
0:50.6	And hear this.
0:51.9	If I know anything about the character of Almighty God, who's person and work I have been
0:58.8	studying for so many years, I know that God hates abortion under me.
1:08.1	And there are evangelical preachers and evangelical teachers saying it's all right because a woman
1:14.9	has a right to her own body.
1:17.8	No, she doesn't.
1:21.6	I say to anyone out there who says that a woman has a right to do with her own body, what
1:26.5	she wants to do, you tell me where she got it.
1:32.7	Because what terrifies me about that is that somebody is now by saying, I have the right
1:37.4	to do this, is actually claiming a divine endorsement for their activity.
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