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By Admin, July 1, 2010 10:16 am

posted by Pastor Charles R. Moore

I share this piece written by Albert Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, this morning …

Moral earthquakes, like earthquakes of the geophysical variety, most often occur suddenly and without warning.

At one moment the moral argument is framed in conventional and familiar ways.  Just an instant later, all is changed.

An article that appears in the June 30, 2010, edition of The Times [London] represents a moral earthquake that resets an entire issue – and that issue is abortion.  This chilling essay by Antonia Senior is hard to read, but impossible to ignore.  To read it is to feel the moral ground shift under your feet.

Abortion, which Senior acknowledges is the killing of a human life, is defined as ‘a lesser evil’ than the curtailing of abortion rights in the name of liberating women:

‘As ever, when an issue we thought was black and white becomes more nuanced, the answer lies in choosing the lesser evil.’

‘The nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK each year are the lesser evil, no matter how you define life, or death, for that matter.  If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too.’

You must be prepared to kill for the sake of defending abortion rights?  That is exactly what abortion entails – the killing of an unborn child for the sake of asserting a woman’s so-called ‘right to choose.’

As a church, may God grant us the grace to respond to moral issues like this.  May we not be driven by politics, but by Truth.

Yours for that Truth,

Pastor Charles

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By Admin, March 12, 2009 5:08 am

posted by Matt Rouse

The answer is no.  Christians should not oppose stem cell research, but they should think about opposing embryonic stem cell research.  Why?  Because the definition of an embryo is a fertilized egg that has undergone development (i.e., a baby) and the use of a human embryo for research inevitably destroys/kills the embryo.  This is where former President Bill Clinton was confused in a recent CNN interview when he said he supported embryonic stem cell research as long as the embryo wasn’t fertilized.  Huh?

Christians should support adult stem research and other research done with stem cells retrieved from umblical cords.  Embryonic stem cell lines have been fraught with problems, especially tumor development, but there has been success with adult stem cell lines.

If you are interested in more information about this issue, click HERE for an question/answer article from Baptist Press.  I would also recommend visiting the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity’s website.