Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: World's Right to Life Message-ID: <186@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 11:27:38 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.186 Posted: Wed Aug 22 11:27:38 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:47:25 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 64 THE WORLD'S RIGHT TO LIFE I set before you life or death, a blessing or a curse. Choose life then, so that you and your descendants may live in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying His voice, clinging to Him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He would give them. Deuteronomy 30:19-20 In these perilous times Christians and all the peoples of the World face a grave threat to their Right to Life. It is a threat not only to the unborn in mother's wombs today, but a threat to all the unborn children , to all the children, to all the women and men of the future. This threat to every living person's right to life is now only 10 minutes away-closer than at any time in history, closer than it was less than 4 years ago when it was 30 minutes away. This threat to the Right to Life affects not only the guilty but the innocent, not only sinners and unbelievers but Christians and saints, it threatens all of us. It is the ultimate sin of pride and hubris- Man not merely taking away God's judgment of when another person should live, but Man attempting to take away God's judgment of when the whole World should live or die. If Christians are compelled to speak out for the Right to Life of the unborn in mother's wombs, how much more are Christians compelled to speak out for the Right to Life of our living children, vibrant and full of life, the Right to Life of our husbands and wives, and most of all, for the Right to Life of all the generations yet to be born that they may be allowed their chance to enter God's Kingdom? Will Christians lie silent while the Powerful in their relentless quest for Power, go unquestioned in their right to threaten the life of Mankind itself? The greatest moral question for Christians as well as all the peoples of the world is the question of the World's Right to Life-- i.e. what shall we do about the prospect of nuclear war? Is spending $1.65 trillion on preparing for War a moral thing to do? Is bringing the world from 30 minutes away from nuclear holocaust to 10 minutes away from nuclear holocaust a moral thing to do? Is preparing to wage nuclear wars in space a moral thing to do? Can anyone imagine Jesus Christ pressing the button to annihilate the whole human race? Tim Sevener whuxl!orb Bell Labs, Whippany