Ungodly views of human life as well as dangerous social experiments are threatening America's future and clouding the legacy of the Gospel handed down from giants of the faith, Richard Land told messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 15 in Orlando, Fla.
He lamented the continuing slaughter of the country's unborn citizens through abortion and the impact the mindset behind the killing of the innocent has had on the nation. "I can't think of a deeper and more basic ethical issue that any society can face than who and what is a human being," Land said.
It is not news for Bible-believing Christians that life begins at conception, he said, citing Scripture passages as evidence of God's personal involvement in the creation of each human being. He noted that among the early civilizations in the Mediterranean basin, only the Jews did not practice abortion and infanticide, a position stemming from their belief in the teachings of the one true God.
He said church leaders early in the second century A.D., who were overwhelmingly Gentile and had come out of the Greco-Roman societies where abortion was commonplace, abhorred the "killing of human life in the womb."
"They bore eloquent testimony against abortion and eventually caused abortion to be put into the dark corners of the Roman Empire and there it stayed in Western civilization until the fall of the Christian consensus in Europe in the first half of the 20th century and in North America in the second half of the 20th century. There is no question where God is on this issue; God is, has been and will forever be pro-life," he said to sustained applause. Baptist Press
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