I have been following your mess for a few weeks. I bet you will soon be
joining your brethren in the streets, trying to stir up some guilt and
animosity like you all do each year in your "Silent Marches" after your very
loud speeches, around the Roe v. Wade anniversary. Hope they finally get you
included in the hate crimes list.
Since your brand of Christian seems to be so interested in getting people
into heaven, whether they might care for your way, or not, why don't you just
relax when it comes to abortion. At least all the little aborted fetus
souls, if they are human like you say, ought to be happily on their way to
heaven. That ought to make you and the other religious meddlers real happy.
Dear Freed:
Thanks for your interest in my column -- and your heartfelt concern for the
eternal well-being of the never-born.
God has indeed given us assurance of the positive eternal destiny of
those youngsters who die having never made a profession of faith, and for
those who die or are killed in the womb. They can be covered with His
covenant blessing. A wonderful assurance for the believing parents! Backed
by clear scripture.
However, this policy is limited, you know. Those youths, infants and
unborn who die outside of the covenant have no more hope of Heaven than,
well, anyone else whom Jesus doesn't recognize as His own. (Argue with Him
about this, if you must -- not with me, please.)
I bet you are thinking of that old "age of accountability" loophole to
which many well meaning folk try to cling, right? A nice sentiment, but with
a fatal flaw. Sinners need saving from the penalty for their sins. People
sin because they are sinners -- they are not sinners because they sin.
Heaven is the highest hope of mankind -- the ultimate experience,
possession and reality a person can have -- agreed?
If your idea was correct, the most loving thing, the most positive thing,
the best thing that could be done for a human would be to assure his gaining
heaven by killing him before he could commit any sinful acts. Assure heaven
by abortion, by infanticide. Kill them all before they have a chance to sin
and they won't need any salvation! No chance of missing the soul train to
paradise.
What rubbish. Outside of the above mentioned Covenant, there is no more assurance of a dead unborn baby attaining heaven than there is for anybody picked at random out of a crowd. Probably a lot less.
Yes, look for old Daddy doing his tiny part of standing and marching, and
speaking and praying.
"Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do," it was once asked.
True then, true now.
Daddy.
Past Issues of 'Dear Daddy'
What is Gunophobia?
Reclaiming Freedom
Loving Correction
Throw Off the Shackles
Death Penalty 'Balance'
Keep Christ in Christmas
Ten Commandment in Schools
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