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Subject: World's Right to Life
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 11:27:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 11:27:38 1984
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          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