Regarding Abortion -- God's "WIN-WIN-WIN" Situation

God is omniscient and omnipotent. That means that He has always known everything about everything, past present and future. And that He may freely interact, uniquely, with any person, group, or all humanity, however and whenever He chooses.

Trillions (indeed, even octillions) of years ago, God knew just which human entities from gametes on -- sperm & ova, inclusive) would be born, and which ones would NOT, for whatever reason. In the case of Jeremiah, He interacted before Jeremiah reached the womb -- while Jeremiah was still at the sperm-and-ovum stage! (Jer. 1:5). In that particular case, at least, Jeremiah had been instilled with his soul while he was still at the sperm-and-egg stage -- the stage at which the Bible says God interacted with Jeremiah. So it's very possible that God instills all souls at that stage... since God already knows which of them will later become people, and which ones will not. And if He does choose to instill souls in all of those, then heaven must be a very populated place. And any potential people that happened to have been aborted then got a free pass to heaven. And missed the risk of not making it there, that's faced by all of us here on earth... God's "basic training grounds."

These pillars are incomprehensibly huge! It takes four years for light to travel, at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, from one end to the other of the taller one! But this is only an infinitesimal part of the universe. Think... perhaps akin to one molecule within one grain of sand vs. all such molecules from all the other grains of sand in the world.

And then, there also is the very real possibility that God chooses to instill souls only in the entities that He knows, beforehand, will be born. Then there are no free passes to heaven, except for infants and children below each one's age of accountability. Presumably. But that's no loss to the quadrillion human reproductive-process entities (RPEs) at Stage One which are electively aborted daily, worldwide, by men. Which, like the later-stage RPEs, never experienced conscious awareness, so never knew the difference.

Any way you look at it, it's a "win-win" situation for God. Which makes it no great surprise that neither He nor Jesus ever said so much as one single word against abortion in the Bible. And if He had felt so inclined, He certainly could have, via His writers. By the time of Christ, abortion had already been practiced for at least 1,000 years. (Mostly via abortifacients.) And from His vantage point in eternity, and through His omniscience, He already knew that in our age, abortions would be performed a billion times over any given 18-year-long period. But still probided no admonitions against it. (For anyone who's thinking about "Thou shalt not kill," at this point, I caution you against stepping on any ants! The Bible never accords any importance to RPEs, nor defends them. With only one exception. A passage In which the fetus was regarded merely as property. And which condoned slavery! (Ex. 21:20-25.)

Since abortion is a highly-beneficial remedy that enables millions of women to put their lives back on track, and gives them another chance to pursue the full ranges of future opportunities that they'd had before the ill-timed pregnancy, the availability of it is far more in line with God's compassion (and the compassion that Jesus commanded us to show to our neighbors), than it would be for women to be cruelly forced, instead, by their neighbors, to gestate unwanted pregnancies to term against their will, and thus have many of their opportunities and their well-being destroyed. (Particularly since God also was/is well-aware that most women who do obtain abortions go on later to have children, by choice, when the timing is better, and the circumstances and prospects for long-term stable family environments are far more favorable.)

Finally, God is a God of loving compassion and second chances. The woman at the well had sinned, but Jesus gave her her life back. Perhaps sin might have been involved in a given person's getting pregnant, in this discussion. (Whether or not that was the case is beyond this discussion's scope.) But if so, it wouldn't be at all hard to imagine Jesus blessing her getting her life via this remedy. (And if she had sinned in the course of getting pregnant, can't you almost hear Him saying to her, gently, "Go. And sin no more." (?) )

So for God, the status quo is "win-win-win" -- all the way!

Originally written on 10-21-2001.