Can Pro-Life Advocates Lie to Save Lives?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pretty heavy topic today. |
| 0:06.7 | Can we lie? |
| 0:08.3 | Can we lie to women who are seeking abortions? |
| 0:13.0 | If by lying, we increase the likelihood of saving the baby's life. |
| 0:19.0 | When this question came in, it immediately grabbed my attention. |
| 0:21.6 | It's a question from an anonymous woman in Pastor John Hello and thank you for this podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | I work in a crisis pregnancy center and a small community in the Bible belt helping meet |
| 0:30.8 | the needs of pregnant women and single mothers. |
| 0:33.2 | Along with providing access to clothing and parenting classes, we also share the glorious |
| 0:36.8 | message of Christ's work on the cross for centers. |
| 0:40.8 | It is our desire that expecting mothers make the right choice. |
| 0:44.2 | I know God is sovereign and only the Holy Spirit can make dead hearts come alive to make |
| 0:48.8 | those right decisions. |
| 0:51.2 | And this leads to my question. |
| 0:53.2 | Our clinic has experienced pressure from volunteers and leaders supported by local pastors to |
| 0:59.1 | pressure women and couples to save the baby or else the mother and father will be condemning |
| 1:06.8 | their child to an eternal hell for withholding from them a chance to be born, to live, and |
| 1:14.1 | to accept Christ as their savior. |
| 1:18.7 | You have made a strong case, the babies who die or who are killed are saved. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm thinking of baby J's 514 and 684. |
| 1:26.7 | The theology I hear in the clinic is wrong and I think others in the clinic know it's |
| 1:30.7 | wrong too. |
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