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Where is the word "abortion," found in the New Testament?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It's not. However, abortion does not mean murder ... it means more closely to "end" - note the word abort (to abort a mission).

    Anyhow - I think I answered your question :)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The specific word is not found in the New Testament, but check out these verses:

    Psalm 106:38

    They shed innocent blood,the blood of their sons and daughters.By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,they polluted the land with murder.

    Jeremiah 2:34

    Your clothing is stained with the blood of the innocent and the poor,though you didn’t catch them breaking into your houses!

    Jeremiah 19:4

    “‘For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness. The people burn incense to foreign gods—idols never before acknowledged by this generation, by their ancestors, or by the kings of Judah. And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.

    Ezekiel 33:25

    So tell these people, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You eat meat with blood in it, you worship idols, and you murder the innocent. Do you really think the land should be yours?

    Isaiah 1:15

    When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look.Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen,for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.

    From these verses, it would seem that God has something of a soft spot for innocents that have been murdered...and a particular loathing for those who shed innocent blood.

    And it doesn't get any more innocent than a child who hasn't even been born yet.

    GorgeousTx: You're sure taking a lot of giant leaps with those Bible verses. I guess you can find a justification for your politics just about anywhere. Have you also seen Jesus in a tortilla?

  • 1 decade ago

    It is not. It is a euphemism for the intentional destruction of a human child. It may be convenient for the mother, but it is murder and murder is condemned all over the NT.

    Why, are you naive enough to tell yourself that if a word doesn't appear in the NT then the Lord hasn't addressed the issue or has no opinion? I urge you to get more acquainted with the God of the Bible and with His Word.

  • 1 decade ago

    Where are the words from the New Testament found in the original bible?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Nowhere the word was created long after the testament.

  • neil s
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Both abortion and infanticide (killing of infants up to one year of age) were *rampant* in the Roman empire of the first and second century CE. Paul felt it was more important to tell the men to cut their hair than address this, so that tells me everything about what they actually believed.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The word "abortion" did not exist at that time.

  • 1 decade ago

    EVERY OTHER WORD IS RELIGIOUS ABORTION

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Nowhere. Neither is homosexual.

    The Bible shows that God does NOT consider human life to be precious. He kills OVER 2 million people, including babies, and that isn't counting fetuses or the number of men, women, children, and fetuses killed during the Flood or the Slaughter of the Firstborns, when we are not told how many people he killed.

    The Bible clearly shows that God approves of abortion, and in many cases commands it:

    The Bible approves of killing pregnant women: Genesis 38:24, Numbers 31:17

    The Bible approves of abortion: 2 Kings 15:16

    God approves of abortion: Hosea 13:15-16

    People are not counted as persons until they are a month old: Numbers 3:15

    The Bible contains directions on how to abort any pregnancy caused by adultery: Numbers 5:12-31

    The Bible says that being aborted is better than living a bad life: Ecclesiastes 6:3-5, Matthew 26:24

    The Bible says that a person becomes a living soul when he BREATHES the BREATH of life into his nostril (fetuses don't breathe): Genesis 2:7

    What the Bible says about Abortion

    Abortion is not murder. A fetus is not considered a human life.

    If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life. -- Exodus 21:22-23

    The Bible places no value on fetuses or infants less than one month old.

    And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. -- Leviticus 27:6

    Fetuses and infants less than one month old are not considered persons.

    Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD. -- Numbers 3:15-16

    God sometimes approves of killing fetuses.

    And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. -- Numbers 31:15-17

    (Some of the non-virgin women must have been pregnant. They would have been killed along with their unborn fetuses.)

    Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. -- Hosea 9:14

    Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. -- Hosea 9:16

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. -- Hosea 13:16

    God sometimes kills newborn babies to punish their parents.

    Because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. -- 2 Samuel 12:14

    God sometimes causes abortions by cursing unfaithful wives.

    The priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell. And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. ...

    And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. -- Numbers 5:21-21, 27-28

    God's law sometimes requires the execution (by burning to death) of pregnant women.

    Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. -- Genesis 38:24

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  • Daver
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Here, it couldn't be made clearer:

    http://www.catholicdoors.com/courses/abortion.htm

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