I'm afraid, dad, that this is just a lot of hand-waving to avoid the crucial issue. I'm not interested in discussing God's role as judge, or your curious ideas about "child sacrifice". My point, which you tried and failed to address, is that the Bible does not condemn abortion. All you're doing is picking fights with strawmen because you know you can't win the real fight.
Overruled. Jesus love all the children. God clobbered the child sacrificers and will do so again. God said do not kill. God said children are from Him, and has commanded that we teach them right. God is love. It was His love for mankind that was the reason He made a plan of salvation for us. That lan involved setting up a nation to work through and send the Scripture to. For you to disrespect and ignore the rest of the bible in order to try and make Him look unloving and unjust for teaching right and wrong to the people He chose is a cheap and losing strategy. Your shortsightedness in seeing the love and mercy and wisdom of God in dealing with a situation in ancient times is your problem. Here are just some verses that should make this crystal clear.
Leviticus 18:21 ESV
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:31 ESV / 80 helpful votes
You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the
Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Ezekiel 16:20-21 ESV / 68 helpful votes
And
you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
Leviticus 20:1-5 ESV / 67 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the people of Israel,
Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.
Psalm 106:37-38 ESV / 52 helpful votes
They
sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they
poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
2 Kings 21:2-6 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.” And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
2 Kings 17:17-18 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And they
burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.
Jeremiah 7:30-34 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to
burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind. Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere. And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away. And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
Jeremiah 7:31 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to
burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Behold,
children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Ezekiel 20:31 ESV / 25 helpful votes
When you present your gifts and
offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
2 Kings 3:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
Amos 1:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four,
I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Leviticus 20:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“Say to the people of Israel,
Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Luke 1:41 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Jeremiah 32:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to
offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this
abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 19:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
2 Kings 23:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
Isaiah 57:3-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman. Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit, you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree,
who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
Exodus 20:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“You shall not murder.
Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Matthew 19:13-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away.
Isaiah 1:13-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
2 Kings 16:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even
burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Leviticus 20:2-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Say to the people of Israel,
Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.
John 15:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Psalm 139:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 128:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
What Does the Bible Say About Child Sacrifice?
One more time:
"27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result:
Correct. If a citizen of the nation He was setting up in that time committed a grievous sin, there would be a penalty. By the same token, the test that was set up would show if she was innocent. Nothing to do with God wanting to kill babies. It had to do with weeding out sin, and not giving the blessing to a wicked woman.
3. There is, apparently, nothing wrong with abortion, according to the Bible.
Wrong. Abortion and child sacrifice are people taking lives that God gave. When God acted in this case it was God transporting the child to a better situation AND teaching His nation a lesson as well!
Nothing to do with abortion.