R.C. Sproul Jr. - The Church's Silence on the Abortion Issue

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[doobersmanster]

This video is so good and thank you for uploading it:)

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[M30WM3]

@PatriotRachel Actually, the Catholic Church opposes the ending of another life without exception. Only cases in which the lives of mother and child are severely at-risk does it become a possibility that the child's life could be prematurely shortened, but even in these extremely rare cases it is not necessary to end the child's life by abortion. For more information you may wish to visit Abort73.com

[PatriotRachel]

The Catholic church opposes abortion with the exception of rape and incest.

[petruscephas]

jcr4runner

Very good question indeed. But I suppose that all of us should ask ourselves that question. What am I not doing to end this holocaust of 3,700 innocent lives destroyed every day in our country?

I will ask that question of myself in the coming days and try to answer it before I am called to answer it in front of the Lord.

Again, thank you for posting this video and thanks for the discourse.

May God bless you and, as we say in the Catholic Church, "Pray for an end to abortion."

[jcr4runner]

@petruscephas Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Abortion is surely a gate of hell and right now it is prevailing.

What is your explanation for that?

You say the church condemns abortion. But what is the church NOT doing?

[petruscephas]

jcr4runner

Perhaps it would seem that the Church could, of its own will and influence, bring about an end to abortion. If only this were so.

Yet you may be overestimating the power of the Church in the world. No secular government is under any obligation to obey the Church, and although the Church has made clear God's repulsion to abortion, governments are more interested in obeying the wishes of their electorates.

But, since the Didache in the 1st cent., the Church has condemned abortion.

[jcr4runner]

@petruscephas As I said, in word not deed. If the Roman Catholic Church, which is the largest single organization in the world of any type, cannot stop abortion in America, it is simply because they are pro-life in word not deed. The same goes for every other church organization.

Or do you have an explanation as to why abortion is legal in the USA if the RCC (the "ONE TRUE CHURCH" as you see it) actively opposes child killing? How could it be possible?

[petruscephas]

jcr4runner

I'm simply speaking to you from the point of view of Catholic Canon Law which is absolutely clear in its condemnation of abortion.

To understand the severity of Church law on the subject of abortion, please do a search on "Catholic Canon 1398" which reads, “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication."

By the way, Fr. Pavone and Fr. Pacholczyk have done great work along the lines of educating the public about the Church's views.

Thanks.