Rape Victim and Abortion

You are considered to be cold and unfeeling if you would oppose abortion even for the victim of rape. It is assmed that such a pregnancy would only be a horrible experience for the girl, or woman. Why? Why couldn't she see it as a victim like herself? Why couldn't she sympathize with it for that reason, even bond with it for that reason? Isn't that as likely a possibility as that she'd feel nothing but repugnance at being so unfairly imposed upon? Th4e real cold-blooded attitude is the prevailikng one in today's culture, that dehumanizes the baby in the womb. If you see it as an innocent human being you may have an entirely different set of feelings toward it. I could write a long post about this but my computer only tolerates a small post these days.

The Nation Can't be Saved by Political Means

Recently I heard Sean Hannity say how simple it looks to him what we need to do to save the nation, and he went on to list the conservative policies he believes would do it. I agree, those policie4s would save the nation if they were vigorously put into practice by a majority of elected oficials. Mark Levin is another conservative who knows what would save the country. And there are others of course. Get the right people into office who will put the right policies into effect and that will do it. Quite right.

But the signs of the times are clear. It isn't happening, it isn't going to happen, and those who are so sure of what needs to happen and are right about what needs to happen don't seem to have a clue why it isn't going to happen.

It isn't going to happen because the nation is under god's judmgnet and all the policies that are now being denacted are only deepening the judgment against us. The policies alone won't save us, we are under judgment because we are in violation o God's Law. Only rolling back the violations would give us the foundations for saving the country and the forces working against that are loud and aggressive and the foces who would oppose them are weak and confused. The Left is violently in favor of abortion, of murdering our next generation of citizens in the womb, they are calling it a right, fulfilling the description in Isaiah of those who put evil for good and good for evil. And that's just one of the violations that need to be rolled back.

So the people who need to g3et into office where they might do some good aren't going to get into office or if they do they aren't going to be able to do what needs to be done to rol back god's judgment if they even had the foresight to realize that is what does need to be done which sadly isn't likely to be the case.

A fasting and praying Church is the only hope and that isn't happening either. g

The True Christian Life Found in Some of the "Mystics" as Tozer Knew. This is Fenelon.

A brief You Tube video about A W Tozer mentioned that it was Tozer's discovering of a book by Francois Fenelon that most affected the course of his life, that he cherished this book to the extent of never letting anyone borrow it. He was already well versed in the "Higher Life" writers such as Andrew Murray and Wesley and so on, but Fenelon took him to a new height, or a new depth of pursuing God Himself. From that book he went on to read the many other mystical writers that are so often these days and in Tozer's time as well despised by the Protestant leaders. I never understood this since it was those mysics who first turned me toward Christianity as I was reading my way through all the religions during my fortuies. What I found in them is what Tozer also apparently found, the love of God magnified in a way we hardly ever find it in today's churches. There are some elements in some of the mystic writers that have to be dismissed as belonging to the heresy of Roman Catholicism, but there are others whose writings are purse and biblical . Fenelon is clearly one of those. I had heard about it during my reading binge but I never actually read him so this is a discovery for me. I'm so Glad I was able to find a You Tube reading of some of his writings. This is the Christian life. It's sad that it is so neglectedd and even despised.

A Prayer for More Prayer, For a Spiritually Stronger Church

If pastors, an anybody else too of course, spent a lot more time in prayer, a LOT more time in prayer, payer for their congregations, prayer for their sermons, prayer that God would deepen the spiritual life of the church, or any such prayers, just lots lots more of them, hourse every week, I suspect we'd start to see revivals in churches, and that deepening of spiritual life in individuals, and more convicting sermons and a general livening of the whole Christian Church. Hours more, hours and hours more. This is my own prayer. Amen.

Apology

Listening to the previous two posts through the "read aloud" function reveals that there are lengthy sections of total gibberish and all I can say is I'm so very sorry for that. I can't see well enough to correct the problem beyond a word or two if I concentrate hard on it, which is of course why I created all that gibberish in the first place. And I was trying SO hard to position my fingers. I suppose it's time to give up, it's just hard to make thqat decision as long as I can see at least vaguely.

Abortion Ponderings

Since abortion is in the news right now, because of the leak of a potential ruling by the Supreme Court thqat would throw Roe v Wadd to the states, some of the usual opinions are heard here and there. One is that it's hypocritical to be pro life and yet support the death penalty. I always feel obliged to answer this one because it's so wrongheaded. There is nothing contradictory about the concern to defend INNOCESNT life while at the same time believing that the criminally guilty should be punishable by death. Capital crimes are capital crimes, that's what the death panalty is for. The only rational argument against the death p3enalty is the unfortunate fact that too many innocent people are wrongly convicted of capital crimes. I condsier that to be a reasonble argument against the death penalty in such a judicial system, but as a principle, no, there are cro,es tjat deserve deatj/ Ommpcemt imbprm baboes dp mpt deserve death.

On the dark horse podcast another question came up today: the sirtuation of the rape victim who gets pregnant. Should she be condemned to carry the rapitis's baby to birth? Drat, I meant to see if I could find a statistic on how many rapes issue in prengnancy but I forgot. Anyway I certainly agree that it is a serious burden on the rape victim on top of the rape itself, but if I'm consistent the preservation of an innocent life has to be the first consideration. I do't se any way around this. the only solution I see has to be that special care should be taken for the comfort and support of the woman. The churchews that provide Crisis Pregnancy Centers probably already focus on this special need but if not they should. Perhaps a convicted rapist would work to pay for the care of the woman and child while in prison. There are possible wsays to help mitigate the prolem that hneedf to be thought about.

Bret Weinstein brought of an interesting issue with respect to the rape situation. From his evolutionary point of view he figures that the rapist's gen3es might possible contribute to an increase in the birth of rapists because of hos he thinks of genes as related to behavioral possibilities in the offspring.

I found this interesting because from my Christian point of view behavioral characteristocs are veru ;ole;u tp be omjerotecdd becaise
tje soms pf tje fatjers
ARE omjeroted/ {rpbab;u mpt tjrpigj tje gemes bit tjrpigj wjatever s[orotia; [atjwau we a;; omjerote tje som pf aAdam as well as the soms pf tje fatjers om pir pwm [erspa; amcestru/ bit we a;; omjerot everulomd pf som frp, pir amcestprs becaise we are a fa;;em race amd tjere os mp argi,emt O cam fomd om amu pf tjos tp lo;; a babu becaise ot ,ogjt omjerot tje [rp[emsotu pf a ra[ost fatjer/ Raose tje babu as a Cjrostoam . get ot saved. tirm ot awau frp, sicj somfik; ex[ressopms/ Ot os foftu [ercemt ;ole;u tp be a gor; amuwau/

A Lot of Us are LIving a Subnormal Christian Life

The point of a spiritual renewal project such as I've been pursuing is to get the world and the flesh out of your life and receive exhorations and encouragement to a stricter Christian life. Soaking up good Christian teaching, books, sermons, long sessions listening to the Bible, prayer and even fasting when possible, staing away from the usual worldly input, it all helps.

Read the scriptures. How clear it is that we don't possess the spiritual power that should be ours. I guess some think this tepid level of spiritual life is all we're promised but that's not how I read it. "Rivers of living water" says Jesus, those who believe in Him will experience. Don't tell me the Church in general has this spiritual experience. Don't tell me even the best preachers and teachers have anything like it. They may have a fair amount of success at winning converts but it looks pretty feeble compared to the scripture if you ask me.

I want that living water. I want the spiritual power that implies of being able to represent God Himself to the unsaved so that God influences them instead of me. One thing I've been learning over this last month is how much of my life is mired in fleshly attempts to live the Christian life. I picked teachers to read who are stronge on that message, how fleshly and worldly today's church is.

Do we really "walk in the Spirit" if we don't even really know how to identify His presence in our lives? Isn't it too often simply assumed that we are walking in the Spirit because we know we have the Holy Spirit if we are believers, so we don't need any personal experience or evidence of it beyond that basic recognition. These writers I'm reading think otherwise. Tozer, Murray, Nee, Lloyd-Jones. >bri
>br? Dp we deny ourselves. die to ourselve Dp we lmpw pir p;d ,am. pir f;esj. os cricofoed wotj Cjrost amd dp we lmpw jpw tp act pm tjat Mpt veru we;; ot wpi;d see,/ We [reacj om tje f;esj amd assi,e tje S[orot os tjere. amd Je [rpbab;u os. bit mpt om tje [pwer we meed. we wrote b;pgs om tje f;esj amd jp[e Je giodes sp,e pf ot a;tjpigj we dpm t lmpw of Je os pr mpt fpr sire/

Just a hint at what I've been hearing and thinking about for now.