John G. Reisinger

At least that is what the Baptist minister, father of Congressman Condit, thinks. The Rev. Condit's remarks made the national newspaper as well as Newsweek. The blame even includes the responsibility of the congressman's alleged moral failures. Another clergyman insisted that God had nothing at all to do with the terrorists attack in New York City last week. The good Reverend was emphatic that it was the Devil's doing all the way. I would suggest to both of these clergyman, and anyone else, that their theology is not only wrong it is very dangerous. As long as you blame all of the evil on the Devil and refuse to see the hand of God in every event, including the terroroist's attack in New York City, you will never pray and say, "Oh, holy and sovereign God, what are you saying to us in all of this?"

To refuse to see the hand of God in the bad things that happen is to exalt the Devil above God. It is to treat God as if he were either asleep or looking the other way when all of this happened. It is to believe that God was powerless to stop it because the Devil is too strong. If this kind of thinking is true then we are "of all men most miserable." If God is that powerless and the Devil is that strong then maybe we are on the wrong side of the struggle. Maybe the ungodly are right. The reason no one wants to acknowledge God is that is involved in all things is that we must immediately ask "Why did our God allow this to happen to us?" But to ask that involves also admitting that we should learn something from all of this. It means we believe these events, like all other events, carriy a message from God to the people of our day.

In the long run, the populace will be driven to repentance from our conceited self sufficiency or be hardened in its rebellion against the God Who rules and reigns in all things. We need to be praying the prayer of Habakkuk 3:2,3. Look it up.

More nonsense!

Abigail Van Buren hands out advice in our daily paper. Some of it is excellent, some is silly, and some is simply very wrong, however, one thing is consistent. It always reflects the prevailing rejection of God's point of view. This morning Dear Abby was talking about abortion. It seems a woman's 11 year old daughter was told by an uncle that her mother believed "in killing babies" because she believed in abortion. The mother was very upset. Abby said, "Explain [to your daughter] that you are not in favor of killing babies, but you do feel it is important for a woman to have the right to choose."

I would like to say, "Dear Abby, exactly what does a woman have a right to choose about? It seems to me the choice you are insisting on as a `right' is the right to either give birth to a baby or to kill a baby before it is born. Does any woman have that kind of a `right?'"

I remember being on a plane and trying to witness to a feminist. She kept insisting that a "woman has a right to choose" and I kept asking, "the right to choose to do what, to kill a baby?" She said abortion had nothing to do with killing babies since "it" (what ever that was) has not yet been born. She refused to use the word `baby.' I asked her to define exactly what it was that was being aborted. She said it was a "fetus," merely a "piece of plasma." I said, "OK, let's call it a piece of plasma. I have one question: Do you have to kill that piece of plasma before it comes out of the womb or else you can be charged with murder? Must `it' be literally killed before it is legal to abort `it.'" The young lady refused to answer.

My friend, you can cut it any way you want to do but Dear Abby, and all who share her view, are demanding the right to kill. Calling the "thing" you kill a fetus or piece of plasma in no way changes the fact that abortion is killing, and we believe it is not killing something, it is killing somebody. It is killing a baby. You may prefer to say an unborn baby, but you are still killing a baby so that it cannot be born.

I love the response of a high school student who began his remarks on abortion by saying, "Have you noticed that all the people who believe in abortion have already been born."

Copyright 2004 John G. Reisinger