Sanctity of LIfe

Princeton professor, Peter Singer says, “the life of an adult pig deserves protection more than that of a new born human baby, and . . . the parents should be free to kill their young children already born if they deem them unacceptably disabled.” Richard John Neuhaus, “While We’re at It” in First Things (January, 2006, Issue 159)

The Psalmist, David says, “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13)

The suffering Job says, “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?” (Job 31:15)

When did man become a murderous judge? Man became a judge when he exalted himself in the Garden of Eden above the wisdom of God (Genesis 3). When he exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator (Romans 1). At that point in time he became the judge of what was acceptable and unacceptable.

But the remarkable thing about what Professor Singer acknowledges in his judgment is that God is the one who knits the child together in the womb. In other words for man to deem a child acceptable or unacceptable, they are acknowledging that they are the receivers of a gift, a work already accomplished. He is acknowledging that David and Job are correct. It is God who has knit the child together, formed it from an egg and sperm in the womb of a woman, and delivered it into the hands of his creatures.

But at this point the human receivers take the place of God. They continue to worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator who has just given them a gift, a privilege and a responsibility. As they worship and serve the creature they receive, the gift, and determine its acceptability based upon its ability to give them what they want in the earth, that which really satisfies the exaltation of self and all that satisfies self. And if that child is going to cost them thousands of dollars, sleepless nights, vacations, rest, countless trips to the doctors and hospitals, pain and suffering then they deem the child unacceptable. The adult pig will provide pork loin, pork chops, ham, bacon and sausage all for the satisfaction of the creature. So protect it until it’s time to kill it for the creature’s pleasure. But please kill the child that is going to ruin the ham dinner at Christmas because they are crying, need feeding, can’t sit up by themselves and someone will have to wipe the drool and food from their face.

Jesus Christ was unacceptable to the Jews of the first century and so they had him put to death. But this was the definite plan and foreknowledge of God who put his son forward as a propitiatory sacrifice for sinners who would trust in God through Jesus Christ for salvation (Romans 3:23-26). There is hope for the unborn and the born. There is hope for those who have established themselves in the earth as judges, putting to death unborn children through abortion. We must give up the place of assumed authority to the one who is the only true judge, and cry to him for mercy.