Favorite Pro-Life slogans

 

Life begins at conception. It ends at Planned Parenthood.

 

I worked in the abortion industry. I am now pro-life. You CAN quit!

 

Heartbeats detected must be protected.

 

1/3 of my generation is missing.

 

It’s a child – not a choice; I regret my abortion.

 

I mourn my aborted sibling.

 

I regret lost fatherhood.

 

Terrorists have killed 3,000 since 1990. Abortionists killed over 2,500 in America yesterday.

 

We protect: rainforests, whales, trees – but not unborn babies.

 

Call me an extremist but I think that dismemberment is wrong.

 

No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.

 

This feminist opposes discrimination by dismemberment.

 

A fetus=a child=a human being (Luke 1:39-45).

 

Real men love babies.

 

In the name of women’s rights – babies’ rights are snuffed out.

 

I am the pro-life generation; my generation will end abortion.

 

There is no argument for abortion that makes sense!

 

Both lives matter! Life is for everyone!

 

If abortion is about women’s rights – where were mine?

 

All those in favor of abortion have already been born!

 

The greatest threat to Planned Parenthood is the Truth!

 

Abortion is called a choice – but someone dies.

 

The unborn are human beings just like you and me. That is why it is wrong to kill them

 

A massacre of Innocents; abortion is an American holocaust.

 

I survived the rape. I never got over my abortion.

 

It is not a war on choice; it is a revulsion against killing.

 

Abortion is an industry of death.

 

Abortion is always wrong because it is always killing.

 

We march for those who can’t.

 

One unborn baby is murdered every 98 secs.

 

Abortion on demand = the gospel of choice.

 

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish. ( Mother Teresa?)

 

No law can give you the right to do what is wrong,

 

Abortion is legal because babies can’t vote.

 

Every abortion has 2 victims: one damaged, one dead.

 

It’s not science; it’s violence. Pro-life is pro-science.

 

Speak up for those who cannot. I cannot stand by while innocent lives are being lost.

 

Butchering babies for trade in the open market is barbaric.

 

The most dangerous place for a black American baby is in the womb of its black American mother.

 

My birth mother walked out of Planned Parenthood. 60,086,776 babies never left. I walk for them.

 

Your baby has its own DNA. That makes you separate humans!

 

I love adoption!

 

Abortion is the definition of evil – pure and simple.

 

The Constitution says: “No state shall deprive any person of life…” So why is abortion legal?

 

Abortion really is about adults wanting to kill children legally.

 

I am pro-life because there is always a better answer than abortion.

 

Abortion is not medicine. It is not necessary. It is just a license to kill.

 

Why do grown-ups get to bash the baby, when we kids don’t get to break our toys or hurt our pets? Isn’t abortion like breaking my doll – only worse?

 

One unplanned pregnancy saved us all!

 

Help us make abortion unthinkable.

 

You have to join the side you are on!

 

Some babies die by chance, None should die by choice!

 

Sanctity of Life vs. Sanctity of choice!

 

It’s OK to kill a baby in the womb when?____________________

 

Life is for everyone!

 

It’s not choice – it’s violence.

The Friday of Passover Week: John 19:14

 From The Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties 

The uniform impression conveyed by the synoptic Gospels is that the Crucifixion took place on Friday of Holy Week. If it were not for John 19:14, the point would never have come up for debate. But John 19:14 says (according to NASB): 

"Now it was the day of preparation [paraskeue] for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he [Pilate] said to the Jews, `Behold, your King!'" 

The NIV suggests a somewhat less difficult handling of the apparent discrepancy: 

"It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour." 

This latter translation takes note of two very important matters of usage. 

First, the word paraskeue had already by the first century A.D. become a technical term for "Friday," since every Friday was the day of preparation for Saturday, that is, the Sabbath. In Modern Greek the word for "Friday" is paraskeue.   

Second, the Greek term tou pascha (lit., "of the Passover") is taken to be equivalent to the Passover Week. This refers to the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Heb. massot) that immediately followed the initial slaughtering and eating of the Passover lamb on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month Abib, which by Hebrew reckoning would mean the commencement of the fifteenth day, right after sunset. The week of masso-t, coming right on the heels of Passover itself (during which masso-t were actually eaten, along with the lamb, bitter herbs, etc.) very naturally came to be known as Passover Week (cf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed., 12:1041), extending from the fifteenth to the twenty-first of Abib, inclusively. (Arndt and Gingrich [Greek-English Lexicon, pp. 638-39] state: "This [i.e., Passover] was followed immediately by the Feast of Unleavened Bread...on the 15th to the 21st. Popular usage merged the two festivals and treated them as a unity, as they were for practical purposes.") It was unnecessary to insert a specific term for "week" (such as sa-bua`) for it to be understood as such. Therefore, that which might be translated literally as "the preparation of the Passover" must in this context be rendered "Friday of Passover Week."   

It turns out, therefore, that John affirms just as clearly as the Synoptics that Christ was crucified on Friday and that His sacrificial death represented an antitypical fulfillment of the Passover ordinance itself, which was instituted by God in the days of the Exodus as a means of making Calvary available by faith to the ancient people of God even before the coming of Christ.   

Note that in 1 Corinthians 5:7 Jesus is referred to as the Passover Lamb for believers: 

"Purge out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, just as you were unleavened. For Christ our Lamb was sacrificed for us." 

The statement of E. C. Hoskyns on John 19:14 is very appropriate here: 

"The hour of double sacrifice is drawing near. It is midday. The Passover lambs are being prepared for sacrifice, and the Lamb of God is likewise sentenced to death" (The Fourth Gospel [London: Farber and Farber, 1940], ad loc.). 

It simply needs to be pointed out that the lambs referred to here are not those that were slaughtered and eaten in private homes--a rite Jesus had already observed with His disciples the night before ("Maundy Thursday")--but the lambs to be offered on the altar of the Lord on behalf of the whole nation of Israel. (For the household observance on the evening of the fourteenth of Abib, cf. Exod. 12:6; for the public sacrifice on the altar, cf. Exod. 12:16-17; Lev. 23:4-8; 2 Chron. 30:15-19; 35:11-16. These were all known as Passover sacrifices, since they were presented during Passover week.)   

Thus it turns out that there has been a simple misunderstanding of the phrase paraskeue tou pascha that has occasioned such perplexity that even Guthrie (New Bible Commentary, p.964) deduced an original error, for which he had no solution to offer. The various ingenious explanations offered by others, that Christ held His personal Passover a night early, knowing that He would be crucified before the evening of the fourteenth; that Christ and His movement held to a different calendar, reckoning the fourteenth to be a day earlier than the calendar of the official Jerusalem priesthood; or that He was following a revised calendar observed by the Essenes at Qumran--all these theories are quite improbable and altogether unnecessary. There is no contradiction whatever between John and the Synoptics as to the day on which Christ died--it was Friday. 

Study notes: Romans 13

 CONTEXT: Romans 12:14-21

• v. 14: "bless those who persecute (you), bless and do not curse."

• Paul choes Jesus, “love your enemies”: Mat 5.38-39

• Change of the OC law “an eye for an eye” (lex talionis): Lev. 24.20

Cp. God commands lethal self-defense: Ex 22.2. But Jesus says “pray” for them: Luke 6.28-29

• v.19 Don't be an avenger, AB footnote

Paul sees the state as a tool of vengeance in 13:4, but he never imagined that believers assume that role. NT believers are not part of the present political world-system. They are resident aliens, and should not be fighting in the wars of this world-system. Satan’s kingdoms become the Kingdom of God only at the future seventh trumpet which signals the arrival of Messiah to rule with the saints (Rev. 11:15-18). Jesus did not attempt to interfere with politics at his first coming.

Gregory Boyd, author Myth of a Christian Religion and Myth of a Christian Nation.

Jesus’ complete lack of interest becomes even more significant when we remember that he lived in politically volatile times. The reason is that the kingdom of God that Jesus [preached] has nothing to do with having the “right” opinions about how the kingdoms of the world should run. It’s rather a kingdom that “is not of this world” (Jn. 18:36). The only instructions Christians are given vis-à-vis government in the New Testament is to respect and submit to authorities as much as possible, to pay our taxes and to pray for leaders so there will be peace (paying taxes, Mk 12:13-17; Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:13-17). And even these instructions are not given out of any concern for how government should run but to simply facilitate the spreading of the Gospel.

J.W. Allen, A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century, 1928, p 132.

"Yet it would be a gross mistake to suppose that men, at any time, took their political opinions from St. Paul."

CONTEXT: Roman government headed by Nero (57-64 AD).

• According to some killed his mother (poison or drowned); killed his 2nd wife (kicked her while pregnant!)

• Blamed Christians for burning Rome;

• CFs called him the first persecutor of the faith; others the AntiChrist!

• Tradition states he martyred Paul and Peter!

Roman 13:1, Authorities = Government

• Paul echoes OT scheme, God “removes and sets kings…they rule and make laws” Dan 2.21; Prov. 8.15.

• The point is “What God allows, He is sometimes said to ordain.”

• True even of Satan, Luke 4:6

The devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory, for it has been handed over to me [by Adam!], and I give it to whomever I want."

Romans 13:2 rebels "will bring judgment upon themselves"

• Example from John the Baptist who criticized Herod.

• Paul and Silas beaten by the Roman magistrates at Philippi (Acts 16:23).

Romans 13:3 The "rulers"

• The Greek archon used for human rulers, cp. Josephus ref. to Roman rulers over Jews during the War.

Romans 13:4, Gods’ servants for good and evil, I.e., avenger!

• God has given government the responsibility to punish evil, even capital punishment.

• This job is explicitly forbidden to the Christian (12:17a, 19)!

Rom 12:17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil;

12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends!

• Again, Paul echoes Hebrew Scriptures where God sometimes uses the nations to punish His own people.

Romans 13:6-7, pay your taxes.

• Ancient Rome funded military conquests, the same that persecuted Christians;

• Funded public works like the coliseums, gladiatorial games, orgies, etc.

John MacArthur US revolutionary war was “contrary to the clear teachings and commands of Rome 13:1-7.”

“So the United States was actually born out of a violation of New Testament principles, and any blessings God has bestowed on America have come in spite of that disobedience by the Founding Fathers.”

• Rom. 13:11 “salvation is now closer to us than when we first believed”:

Salvation in the NT is in 3 tenses of the verb:

1. We were saved (Rom 8:24),

2. We are being saved (2Cor 2:15),

3. We will be saved at Messiah’s return (Acts 15:11).

Romans 13:12 The night has advanced toward dawn;

• Messianic symbol, Zecheriah the priest:

Luke 1:78 “Through God’s caring kindness to us, heaven’s dawn will break upon us, 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and under the shadow of death [Dan 12.3], and to guide us along the path which leads to peace.”

Jesus Practiced What he Preached

Throughout the Gospels we see Jesus practicing what he preached and commanding his listening audience to do the same. For example, Jesus is seen eating with "sinners," a word that can only apply to two classes of people: non-religious Jews and the uncircumcised, i.e., Gentiles. So it would make sense that Jesus broke Kosher laws, similar to the allegations against Peter in Acts 11:3; Gal 2.12.

In Mark 7 Jesus uses his criticism of the tradition of the Jewish elders to make a further teaching on the food laws.

"Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. 'All of you listen,' he said, 'and try to understand. It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart'.”

(Mar 7.14-15; NOTE some manuscripts add verse 16, "Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.")

As a result, Mark later says that by saying these things "Jesus had made all foods clean." (Mar 7.19)

The Apostles likely broke the once a year law on fasting from Lev. 16, i.e., for the Day of Atonement. In Mar 2.19 Jesus clearly says: "They can’t fast while the groom is with them." And we all know that the ministry of Jesus lasted for at least years.

In Numbers 5 God commands the removal of people with all kinds of illnesses "so that they will not defile their camps." The same in Numbers 9.10 where God commands anyone who has been in contact with the dead not to take the Passover. Yet, Jesus and his followers are recorded time and again as having to touch the sick, demonized in order to heal them.

In Matthew 12:1-6 and John 5:17-19 we see Jesus and his followers breaking the Sabbath yet, not making them lawbreakers, i.e., sinners.

Lastly, under Moses you could kill your enemy and even the "intruder: (Lev. 24.20; Ex 22.2) but under Jesus you have to unconditionally “love your enemies” (Mat 5.38-39; cp. Luke 6.28-29).

And under Moses a certificate of divorce was granted (Deut. 24.1-4) but under Jesus divorce is allowed for only one reason (Mat 5.31-32; 19).

The fact is Jesus was sent to preach and practice New Covenant Law (Heb. 9.15; 12.24). As a result, Jesus was under his own Law, what Paul later calls the Law of Messiah (Gal 6.2; 1Cor 9:21, not the same as the Law of Moses!). Hence, Paul clearly says "imitate me as I imitate Messiah" (1Cor 11.1). And though we all know that both Paul and Jesus were "born under the Law" of Moses, it doesn't mean they had to remain Torah-observant for the rest of their life!

The Sound Doctrine Dictionary

Compiled by Sarah Jiménez 

Synonyms for the whole body of established Christian doctrine in 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus

(Note that Christian teaching is not just one doctrine, not a single issue!)

 

The defining text: 1 Tim. 6:3: “Health-giving words – namely the teachings given by our lord Jesus Messiah” = the Gospel about the Kingdom

 

The faith: 1 Tim. 1:2; 1:19; 3:13; 4:1; 5:8; 6:10; 6:12; 6:21; 2 Tim. 3:8; 4:7; Titus 1:1; 1:4; 1:13; 3:15

The truth: 1 Tim. 2:4; 3:15; 4:3; 6:5; 2 Tim. 2:18; 2:25; 3:7-8; 4:4; Titus 1:1; 1:14

The health-giving (sound) teaching (or words): 1 Tim. 1:10; 6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13; 4:3; Titus 1:9; 1:13; 2:1-2; 2:8 (sound message)

The revealed truths (mystery) of the faith: 1 Tim. 3:9; 3:16

The words of the faith and good doctrine: 1 Tim. 4:6

The Gospel of the glory of God = The Gospel of the Kingdom of God: 1 Tim. 1:11

The Gospel: 2 Tim. 1:8; 1:10; 2 Tim. 1:11; 2:8

The word (Gospel) of the truth: 2 Tim. 2:15

The word (Gospel) of God: 2 Tim. 2:9, Titus 2:5

The word (Gospel): 2 Tim. 4:2; Titus 1:3; 1:9

The standard (pattern) of health-giving words: 2 Tim. 1:13

The treasure (deposit) entrusted to you: 2 Tim. 1:14 (see also v. 12: “what has been entrusted to me” and 1 Tim. 1:11, 6:20; 2 Tim. 2:2; Titus 1:3)

The teaching (“Christian teaching,” NET Bible): 1 Tim. 6:1

The teaching of God: Titus 2:10

Demons in the Bible

According to Unger's Biblical Demonology:

“It’s to be noted carefully that Hebrew possesses no precise equivalent for the Hellenistic Greek terms daimon or daimonion. [Furthermore] the rabbis divided demons into 2 classes: purely spiritual beings and half-spirits [halbgesiter].”

Yet, the LXX translates ’elilim in Ps 96.5 as demons.

Other Hebrew terms translated demons include:

• Satyr (seirim, Lev 17.7; 2K 23.8; Isa 13:21; 34:14);
• Shedhim, elohim (Deut 32.17);
• And personal names like Gad (Isa 65.11);
• And the only known female-demoness, Lilith (Isa 34).

You also have the rephaim, translated shades or dead ones who meet other nocturnal demonic creatures who inhabit desolate/destroyed places. These are described as animals like owls, jackals, hyenas, wolves, ostriches, vultures (Isa 13.19-22).

Emerson, in his book The Serpent's Seed (p. 71) notes:

"Unlike today, in ages past a common belief was that evil spirits [i.e., "demons"] were the ghosts of dead Nephilim/Rephaim."

The 1st book of Enoch [aka Book of the Watchers], written c. 300BC.

"The giants [Heb. nephilim] who are produced from [the cohabitation of] spirits [cp, spirits in prison, 1Pet 3.19] and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling; because they are born from men, and from the holy watchers [aka angels, Dan 4.13, 17, 23LXX] is their beginning and primal origin.”

"Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits [children?] assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till the day of the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of." [1 Enoch 15:8; 19:1-2]

This was the belief of the earliest Christian writers like Athenagorus (A.D. 137-175) who writes that some angels:

“fell into impure love of virgins, and were subjugated by the flesh. [Of these] were begotten those who are called giants. [And] the souls of the giants, which are the demons who wander about the world, perform actions similar [to fallen angels. They] haunt the air and the earth, and are no longer able to rise to heavenly things…”

Justin Martyr, 2nd Apology 5 (c. 200s AD).

Angels “transgressed the divine ordering, and by sinful intercourse with women produced offspring who are demons [cp. evil spirits in Enoch, Peter].”

Commodianus (A.D. 240).

The Almighty did not allow [the giants] to be brought back from death after they died, because they were of an evil seed. As a result they now wander and fight for control of people's bodies.

Origen, (A.D. 248).

"Wicked demons [of the race of Titans or Giants] haunt the denser parts of the bodies. They also frequent unclean places on the earth. Since they are without bodies of earthly material….They also secretly enter the bodies of the more predatory, savage, and wicked of animals…."

Pauline Kingdom Gospel Dictionary

 Code word(s) for the Gospel about the coming Kingdom, Acts 14:22, 19:8, 20:24-25; 28:23; 28:31; 2 Tim. 4:1:

• Gospel (1Cor 9.18)

• Gospel of peace (Rom 10.15; Eph 2.17)

• The inheritance; reward (Col 3.24)

• The promise (Rom 4.16)

• The blessing (Gal 3.14)

• Immortality; eternal life (Rom 2.7)

• Glory (Rom 8.17-18; 15.7)

• the word (1Thess 1.6); word of truth (2Tim 2.15); word of the Lord (1Thess 1:8); word of Christ (Col 3:16); word of life’ (Phil. 2:16); words of faith and good doctrine’ (1 Tim. 4:6); word/message of the Cross (1Cor 1:18)

• The revealed truths of the faith (1Tim 3.9, 16); aka mystery/secret (Eph 6:19; Rom 16:25)

• The standard of teaching’ (Rom. 6:17)

• The pattern of sound words’ (2 Tim. 1:13); Sound teaching’ (2 Tim. 4:3; Titus 1:9); teaching (1Tim 6.1);

• The faith (Phil. 1:27; Eph. 4:5; Col. 2:6-7; 1 Tim. 6:20-21)

• The truth (Col. 1:5; 2 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 2:18, 25; 4:4)

• The apostolic traditions (1 Cor. 11:2; 15:1ff; Gal. 1:9; Col. 2:6; 1 Thess. 4:1; 2 Thess. 2:15)

• Salvation (2Cor 1.6)

• The hope (Col 1.5; Eph 1.18)

• Life of the age to come (Eph 1.21; 1Tim 4.8); coming ages (Eph 2.7);

"The body of doctrine…is to be utilized in the public proclamation of the Christian message (e.g. 2 Tim. 2:15 ‘the word of truth’).” Ralph P. Martin, Worship in the Early Church, 1975, p. 54-57.