Matthew 24:12
And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
I suppose I am working backwards in the Bible from yesterday where I posted Matthew 24:13. But I think as I do that, we can look at is as causes for a condition that comes later,
I have lived for close to 69 years and even though I truly came to Believe in the True Christ 25 years ago---I remember many things in the times I was not a Believer.
One solid example of that is that my now-deceased wife and I had an abortion back in 1979. Abortions, of course had just been legalized just 5 years previously in America by “Roe”. It was very open and here in Wyoming we had a regional hospital that advertised for their services. I have long since found my forgiveness for being the father of an aborted child, while my wife then of course did not find her forgiveness in this life, as she died in a car accident in 1987.
I believe that I pushed her into that abortion and that is what is happening now—with a lot of fathers insisting that the child the wife is carrying be aborted. And even boyfriends will insist at times that his girlfriend has an abortion as it is far cheaper to go that route than raise a child to adulthood. My false rationale was that we could not afford another child with 2 already, but then I could envision how that act would affect our marriage later. I realized I was not being a man in protecting my family and that is why I believe my wife lost respect for me afterwards.
The Christian Right or the Moral Majority was just getting started about that time of our abortion and of course they had no protesters in front of this hospital-then. But then, as now, there is only focus on the mother and very little on the father and his responsibilities. I thought that aspect to be very strange [even as a non-Believer then] , as I still had the responsibility as the father for creating this child that we aborted that these Pro-Life groups were not addressing.
Now we have 2 states, so far, that threaten the death penalty against the mother if she has an abortion. So not much has changed, except the angry rhetoric is getting stronger on the so-called Pro-life side. In doing a little research on this I have found that right now there are statistics showing that 4 out of 10 are Church-going women [and men, of course] who are quietly electing for the abortion alternative. Quietly, because statistics show that very few will share their decisions with anyone in their Church. And like me many years ago, many of those decisions to abort are because of financial strains.
I lived as an “adult’ partially in the era before legalized abortions and there were all kinds of stories about women drinking certain chemicals to induce a miscarriage. Other stories of back-alley abortion clinics one could go to that were hardly sanitary. “Coat-hanger abortions” was also talked about, I knew a few guys then who had forced their girlfriends to go one of these routes in the era of “Free Love”. I simply learned more about birth control from then on as a man, we are by far, the ones who initiate sex.
So this is a definite condition of love growing colder in a slow and subtle way for the last 50 or 60 years. Not only from the woman and men who choose the abortion route, but from those on the Pro-Life side who try make it very black versus white.
And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
I suppose I am working backwards in the Bible from yesterday where I posted Matthew 24:13. But I think as I do that, we can look at is as causes for a condition that comes later,
I have lived for close to 69 years and even though I truly came to Believe in the True Christ 25 years ago---I remember many things in the times I was not a Believer.
One solid example of that is that my now-deceased wife and I had an abortion back in 1979. Abortions, of course had just been legalized just 5 years previously in America by “Roe”. It was very open and here in Wyoming we had a regional hospital that advertised for their services. I have long since found my forgiveness for being the father of an aborted child, while my wife then of course did not find her forgiveness in this life, as she died in a car accident in 1987.
I believe that I pushed her into that abortion and that is what is happening now—with a lot of fathers insisting that the child the wife is carrying be aborted. And even boyfriends will insist at times that his girlfriend has an abortion as it is far cheaper to go that route than raise a child to adulthood. My false rationale was that we could not afford another child with 2 already, but then I could envision how that act would affect our marriage later. I realized I was not being a man in protecting my family and that is why I believe my wife lost respect for me afterwards.
The Christian Right or the Moral Majority was just getting started about that time of our abortion and of course they had no protesters in front of this hospital-then. But then, as now, there is only focus on the mother and very little on the father and his responsibilities. I thought that aspect to be very strange [even as a non-Believer then] , as I still had the responsibility as the father for creating this child that we aborted that these Pro-Life groups were not addressing.
Now we have 2 states, so far, that threaten the death penalty against the mother if she has an abortion. So not much has changed, except the angry rhetoric is getting stronger on the so-called Pro-life side. In doing a little research on this I have found that right now there are statistics showing that 4 out of 10 are Church-going women [and men, of course] who are quietly electing for the abortion alternative. Quietly, because statistics show that very few will share their decisions with anyone in their Church. And like me many years ago, many of those decisions to abort are because of financial strains.
I lived as an “adult’ partially in the era before legalized abortions and there were all kinds of stories about women drinking certain chemicals to induce a miscarriage. Other stories of back-alley abortion clinics one could go to that were hardly sanitary. “Coat-hanger abortions” was also talked about, I knew a few guys then who had forced their girlfriends to go one of these routes in the era of “Free Love”. I simply learned more about birth control from then on as a man, we are by far, the ones who initiate sex.
So this is a definite condition of love growing colder in a slow and subtle way for the last 50 or 60 years. Not only from the woman and men who choose the abortion route, but from those on the Pro-Life side who try make it very black versus white.