How can CHRISTIANS say that ABORTION is MURDER?!!

Philippines
January 15, 2007 8:56am CST
How do christians sit there and say abortion is illegal when christians have been murdering/killing for centuries? They say that only GOD can take away life because HE is the ONE who gave it to us. But they have been killing for centuries now.
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@abednego7 (1060)
• Philippines
15 Jan 07
Just want to correct something, True Christians never ever done some murdering or killings. If you read bible when Jesus was caught by the roman soldiers, apostle Peter attacked one of them but Jesus never commended for his action but healed the wounded ear of the soldier and explained Peter that he don't need that gory gesture to defend him. What you are referring is the "Christendom", this organization commit inquisition not for the sake of Christ but for them who was craving for lands and money. True Christians majority at that time had been vanished, only on the following centuries that some little groups begun to showed some characteristics of self-sacrifice Christians which what Jesus Christ really left as an example.
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@sunshinecup (7871)
16 Jan 07
Actually, God does condone killing in the Bible. There is a sweet little story in there (one of many really) where God killed a child because he was evil! Then how about the one in Kings, where the pagans were slaughtered along with their leaders, at God's command? Those that say God is against killing has not read their Bible very well. God is all for homicide when it’s justifiable. Kind of like abortion, IMO.
@Jude68 (34)
• United States
16 Jan 07
So, are you saying that all killing is murder? I don't think that Scripture supports that. If you want to go by Old Testament teaching, you'll find many justifications for killing under the law. Check out the difference between killing and murder in Leviticus. And if you want to go by New Testament teaching, I think that the coolest thing that Jesus said was in Matthew chapter 13, "Go and learn what this means 'I desire mercy not sacrifice'" Mercy for the unborn. Mercy for the mother.
16 Jan 07
So, are you saying that all killing is murder? I said nothing in regards to that. Are you sure you replied to the correct post?
@katyzzz (2897)
• Australia
16 Jan 07
how could anyone not say it's murder?
@mkirby624 (1598)
• United States
16 Jan 07
K. I'm a Christian and I believe that abortion is murder. And it's not wrong to say that or hypocritical to say that because I, myself, have never killed anyone. Maybe others in my religion have, but I don't know any. So I guess it's just fine for me to say it is murder.
@skygirl85 (119)
• Italy
15 Jan 07
Life is a present that God give us, and so It need to respect the life, of myself or of the others, to any stage of life. Remember that you, like other , would not be here if your mother had aborted didn't gave you the possibility of life... For the killing of the centuries that you said, now i don't know about you report... but from when the world is up every had killed for many kind of motivations, and all of kind of people and religions......this is bad, bad bad, but unfortunately it's true
• Indonesia
16 Jan 07
Than the they are not Christians. True Ghristians gives their live, not taking from other
@WebMann (4731)
• Canada
15 Jan 07
You aren't making sense to me. If a murder says that murder is wrong does it change the fact that murder is wrong. Of course not murder is murder.