Abortion Is the Anti-Gospel

From Abortion is the Anti-Gospel by Daniel Ritchie at Desiring God:

....While the gospel reveals a Savior who lays down his life for those who ran from him, abortion reveals humans extinguishing a life we were meant to love and protect. As you scan the pages of Scripture, it is clear that abortion is the anti-gospel.

Abortion says,

• Unborn babies have value only as expendable commodities.
• Each baby is only a clump of tissue, devoid of any purpose or life.
• There’s not a place for you in my plan right now.
• Disability limits a chance at any manner of a quality of life.

But the gospel says,

• We have tremendous value as God’s image-bearers (Genesis 1:27).
• Each one of us is “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14).
• We have lovingly “received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’” (Romans 8:15).
• God’s glory and grace shine even, and especially, in those with physical limitations or weaknesses (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Abortion is an assault on the image, character, grace, gospel, and glory of God. For the Christian to see it as anything less than that is to reject a biblical view of God’s gospel and God’s glory....

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