Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:51)
Is Belief in the Humanity of the Fetus Just “Medieval Superstition?” We Must Confront the Denial of Fetal Personhood and Recognize the Fervor to Deny Personhood as a Denial of All Human Dignity‘Fetal Personhood’ Has a Whiff of Medieval Theology by LA Times (Margaret Wertheim)Is a Fetus a ‘Person’? A Fringe Idea Could Be the Next Post-Roe v. Wade Chapter by Miami Herald (The Editorial Board)Part II (09:51 - 19:58)
‘For You Formed My Inward Parts; You Knitted Me Together in My Mother's Womb.’: The Most Conclusive Refutation of the Culture of Death Comes from the Word of GodPart III (19:58 - 27:18)
This is How Evil Defends Itself: Chinese Communist Leaders Learned Exactly the Wrong Lessons from the Life and Legacy of Mikhail GorbachevFor China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do by The New York Times (Hannah Beech)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 13, 2022. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.1 | from a Christian worldview. In the confusion around |
| 0:15.3 | us, Christians need to see some issues very clearly, issues that emerge simply because arguments |
| 0:22.0 | all of a sudden seem to break out into public conversation |
| 0:25.0 | arguments that demand our attention. Here's one. Margaret Wertheim, writing |
| 0:29.5 | for the Los Angeles Times, offers an article and just notice the headline quote |
| 0:34.0 | fetal personhood has a whiff of medieval theology. Now wait just a minute you |
| 0:39.2 | understand immediately what's going on here for one thing how often do you see a headline with the word |
| 0:43.9 | theology in it in this secular age? But you know exactly what's behind this. You don't |
| 0:48.7 | even have to look at the article yet. Trust me, we will. All you have to do is |
| 0:52.2 | see the headline to know that the use of |
| 0:54.7 | the phrase medieval theology along with fetal personhood is to say this is nothing |
| 0:59.6 | more than antiquarian oppressive some kind of presupposition and superstition. |
| 1:05.8 | Margaret Wertheim indicates that in the aftermath of the abortion decision, just a matter of |
| 1:10.8 | this past June by the Supreme Court, there are issues that are simply |
| 1:14.3 | going to have to be faced and one of them is the moral status of the unborn child. |
| 1:20.4 | And Wertheim writes, quote, Is a pregnant body one person or two? |
| 1:24.8 | If you believe the anti-abortion movement, |
| 1:26.8 | the answer is clear. |
| 1:27.8 | A pregnant body is two distinct persons |
| 1:30.6 | and one of those persons, the woman does not have the right to take away the life and the word life by the way is put in quotation marks of the other. |
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