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The Same Bible which Condemns Abortion Condemns Fornication

Re: Oh my god..
----- Original Message ----- From: "GLORIA MONROE" <gloria_monroe69@yahoo.com> To: <Feedback@panews.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: Oh my god...
> As I read this article..I was in shocke that someone
> would try and justify these extremely horrible
> acts..it is not abortion..there is no other word but
> Murder that can describe these actions..I'm a 28 year
> old female..I have been sexually active since 18 years
> old..not once have I'm been pregnate..the reason for
> that is because I'm responsible for my actions..and I
> have taken birth control... birth control and
> responsibility is the answer..not murder.!!!! I don't
> belive there is enough space in hell for these people
> who partake in these emensly evil doings..
>
> __________________________________________________
 
Dear Gloria,
 
    I have kept your email at the top of my list to respond to, since you sent it; but until now I haven't been give the words for a response.
    I am glad you are above killing your own child. God appreciates it, too. Please  allow me to inspire you to still greater heights.
    The same Bible which condemns Molech worship (their technological equivalent of abortion) in Leviticus 20:1-5 also condemns "fornication", in the KJV terminology.
    I realize much of our Christian society today expresses "moral outrage" abortion but preaches against promiscuity very, very seldom if at all. This selective attention to morality was the same in Bible times.
    In the long line of kings succeeding David, each story concludes with a one or two verse summary of how they did, on the whole, about obeying God.
    Notice, as we meander down David's geneological chart, how some were considered "wicked" because they made Israel more wicked, while others were "good" because they made Israel a little better but still left many sins remaining. Watch especially the progress made against the "high places".

(The Scriptures are reprinted below.)

    My challenge to you is be like Hezekiah. Stop ALL the sin. And be like Josiah. Tremble at God's judgments, and resolve to serve Him. Then go out and drag every blasphemy, every abomination, into the garbage pile and burn it.
    Sure, God may let you coast a little longer. Like the "good kings" before Hezekiah, God might smile upon your opposition to abortion, though leaving fornication intact. But why would you want to sin, when you don't have to?
    Romans 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

(Here are the Scriptures showing the degrees of righteousness of Israel's kings:)
 
    1 Kings 14:21  And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22  And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23  For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24  And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations
     1 Kings 15:11  And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12  And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13  And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. 14  But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
    1 Kings 22:42  Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43  And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
    2 Kings 12:2  And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 3  But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
    2 Kings 14:14:1  In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.  3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. 4  Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
    2 Kings 15:1  In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; 4  Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
    2 Kings 15:32  In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.  34  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35  Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
    2 Kings 16:2  Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did NOT that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, [burned him alive, sacrificing his son to Molech] according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4  And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
    2 Kings 18:18:1  Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4  He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. 5  He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.6  For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 7  And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
    2 Kings 21:21:1  Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4  And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5  And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6  And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7  And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:  8  Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9  But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
    Next came Josiah. His wicked father had apparently destroyed all the Bibles, but 2 Kings 22:8 records how a priest managed to find one! Josiah was terrified when he heard God's judgments for the crimes of his father which remained in Israel to that day. So here's what he did next:
 
    2 Kings 23:1  And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2  And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 3  And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. 4  And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 5  And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6  And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. 7  And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. 8  And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. 9  Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. 10  And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. 11  And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12  And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 13  And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14  And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. 15  Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. 16  And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17  Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel. 18  And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. 19  And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel. 20  And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. 21  And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. 22  Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 23  But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem. 24  Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 25  And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26  Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah,
 
  

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