Wednesday Bible Study: I demand that Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., and Robert Jeffers read this

This being Numbers 5. I don ' t really know about Judaism in this regard, but the Catholic church didn ' t prohibit abortion until the late 19th Century, in reaction to the feminist movement of the time; and it did not become a cause celebre for Christian evangelicals until the mid-20th Century. In case you haven ' t noticed, anti-abortion crusaders never actually quote the Bible, and that ' s because they can ' t. There is no condemnation of abortion anywhere in the Bible, Old Testament or New, and in fact it is condoned and even, in Numbers 5, affirmatively promoted under the specific circumstance that a woman has become pregnant by adultery. Uh-oh! Remember this is the literal and inerrant word of God! There are a few more things about this chapter that are, uh, interesting. Let ' s dive in.5 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[a] or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them. ”4 The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as theLord had instructed Moses.Okay, so drive sick people out into the desert to suffer and die alone. God seems nice.5 TheLord said to Moses,6 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way[b] and so is unfaithful to theLord is guil...
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