You could have fooled me. Just from what Christians on CF tell me, the only important tenet of the Christian faith is that the Book of Genesis is literal history.The main tenet of the Christian faith is the Jesus is God, any church that does not recognize that is a sect. This is not my opinion, that is how it is.
In that regard, all Christian churches are subgroups, or ‘sects’, of the original Rome-based religion. The Eastern Church is therefore a sect of the original, as are all of the Protestant churches. I see it simply as descriptive, rather than any slur...
Political Islam is here to stay in the Mid East. The real question is finding a way to encourage as much democracy and toleration as possible.Electing Trump will not make make abortion illegal. So, I'll shift gears, here. I have a serious question.
Obama was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Do we know about Biden's relationship with political Islamists?
Not that so much as inerrancy, of which that's one implication. For many Christians, it's important to know the truth, and truth is by definition unchangeable. That means they want an oracle. For centuries it was Tradition. That became embodied in the Pope. For Protestants it's Scripture.You could have fooled me. Just from what Christians on CF tell me, the only important tenet of the Christian faith is that the Book of Genesis is literal history.
Electing Trump will not make make abortion illegal.
I didn't say it shouldn't be discussed and your analogy is way off.
No, ‘I’ wouldn’t have existed. A group of cells would have existed for a short time. The concept of an ‘I’ would not, did not, occur until I was born.
So then explain how a baby kicks its mother inside the womb? You don't call that alive?
How about the Pope and really there are many Catholics and Protestants.
Never said those cells weren’t living...
Then you call it not existing? I'm sorry, still not quite sure that I understand you. :/
It’s a personhood thing. ‘I’ as a conscious identity...
How so? In one case a woman (or a man and a woman) doesn't want her (their) baby anymore, and in one case somebody doesn't want their child or family member anymore. I don't see that much of a difference.
The difference is boldly autonomy.
At the simplest, a person gets to chose what becomes of their body. Others do not get to demand use of it even if doing so will result in their deaths, ie I cannot be forced to give away my kidney or blood. Applying that to the abortion issue a woman gets to chose if she will allow a fetus to grow within her. The same does not apply to independent family members one does not want around as they are not making use of ones body.I got special needs. Care to explain what that means?
At the simplest, a person gets to chose what becomes of their body. Others do not get to demand use of it even if doing so will result in their deaths, ie I cannot be forced to give away my kidney or blood. Applying that to the abortion issue a woman gets to chose if she will allow a fetus to grow within her. The same does not apply to independent family members one does not want around as they are not making use of ones body.
The fetus if making use of the woman body hence its right are second to hers.Okay,.. that part makes sense,.. but how fair is it to the child who doesn't get a choice of whether or not they want to live or die?
Not really. Not every collection of cells has a personal identity. Arms don't. Samples taken for medical diagnosis don't. From a Biblical point of view, I claim that the definition is the image of God. By any reasonable definition that requires a functioning cortex. That happens around 2/3 of the way into pregnancy. Some have argued for the "breath of life," which happens at birth. But others have argued that the blood is life, which would be earlier, though certainly not conception. But those are metaphors. The image of God seems like the most sensible definition.You're still not really making any sense. If there's a live baby inside a woman then it's going to have an identity.
The fetus if making use of the woman body hence its right are second to hers.
Also, biology is not fair. Get over it.
Alright now you're making me mad but I think it's best that we end this discussion right here
but thankfully not everybody in the world is as cruel and heartless to say something like you just did.
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