BIBLE: Quotes for religious debate
According to C.R. Becker, God’s word trumps government and the laws of government. All right, then I would like to know what part of God’s word Mr. Becker has not read today.
Hosea 14:1, “Samaria must bear her guilt, for she has defied her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed to death, and their women with child ripped open.” This is from the Tanakh, but the New International Version, which came out some years ago, also carried a similar scripture.
Continuing with Jeremiah 20:14 - 18, “Accursed be the day that I was born! Let not the day be blessed when my mother bore me. Accursed be the man who brought my father the news and said, ‘A boy is born to you,’ and gave him such joy. Let that man become like the cities which the Lord overthrew without relenting. Let him hear shrieks in the morning and the battle shouts at noontide — because he did not kill me before birth so that my mother might be my grave, and her womb (big with me) for all time. Why did I ever issue from the womb, to see misery and woe, to spend all my days in shame.”
And finally concluding with Job Chapter 10:1 - 22, “I am disgusted with life; I will give rein to my complaint, speak in the bitterness of my soul. I say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know what You charge me with. Does it benefit You to defraud, to despise the toil of Your hands, while smiling on the counsel of the wicked? Do You have the eyes of flesh? Is Your vision that of mere men? Are Your days the days of a mortal, are Your years the years of a man, that You seek my iniquity and search out my sin? You know that I am not guilty, and that there is none to deliver from Your hand. Your hands shaped and fashioned me, then destroyed every part of me. Consider that You fashioned me like clay; will You then turn me back into dust? You poured me out like milk, congealed me like cheese; You clothed me with skin and flesh and wove me of bones and sinews; You bestowed on me life and care; Your providence watched over my spirit. Yet these things You hid in Your heart; I know that You had this in mind: To watch me when I sinned and not clear me of my iniquity; should I be guilty — the worse for me! And even when innocent, I cannot lift my head; so sated am I with shame, and drenched in my misery. It is something to be proud of to hunt me like a lion, to show Yourself wondrous through me time and again! You keep sending fresh witnesses against me, letting Your vexation with me grow. I serve my term and my own replacement. Why did You let me come out of the womb? Better had I expired before any eye saw me, had I been as though I never was, had I been carried from the womb to the grave. My days are few, so desist! Leave me alone, let me be diverted a while before I depart — never to return — for the land of deepest gloom; a land whose light is darkness, all gloom and disarray, whose light is like darkness.”
Finally and very briefly, what part of federal law was Mr. Becker quick to ignore or have a selective memory about? Planned Parenthood does not receive federal money for their operations. It is illegal for them to do so.
JOAN E. HARMAN
Coeur d’Alene