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ARTICLE TITLE: Eternal Security for
Infants: Illogical Indifference for Pastors
DATE: Monday 5 July 2010
AUTHOR: Gregg Cunningham
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Gregg
Cunningham is the Executive Director of CBR (The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform). Gregg Cunningham earned a BA degree
from The Pennsylvania State University and a JD degree from The Ohio Northern
University School of Law where he served as executive editor of the Law
Review. He is the co-author of a handbook on attorney misconduct entitled
“Ethics And Discipline In Ohio” (Ohio State Bar Foundation, 1976).
He is a former two-term Member of The Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he introduced legislation which ended public funding for abortion. He was also a prime sponsor of the Abortion Control Act which was litigated before the U.S. Supreme Court in Thornburgh v. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He later helped direct the ballot initiative campaign which stopped public funding for abortion in Colorado.
During the first Reagan Administration he served as a political appointee in the U.S. Department of Education and later in The Office of Legislative Affairs with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He next served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles.
He is a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Colonel with six years of active duty service and twenty-five years in the ready reserve. He is also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. http://www.abortionno.org/index.php/site/directors/
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| Gregg Cunningham |
Eternal Security for Infants: Illogical Indifference for Pastors
One
of the most common heresies committed by pastors who attempt to evade
responsibility for defending life is to trivialize abortion on grounds that
“aborted babies go to Heaven anyway.” Pastor Rick Warren, one of America’s most
outspokenly pro-life clerics, made repeated resort to this argument when I
challenged him to do more to fight abortion at Saddleback Church. Steve Douglas,
now head of Campus Crusade for Christ, said the same thing in precisely the
same words when I pressed him to do more to stop abortion. This bizarre theory
is now endemic in the Body of Christ.
When
we repeat Satan’s lie that a child’s assurance of eternal life diminishes the
church’s responsibility to protect his mortal life, we are doing the work of
the devil. “The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the
Devil.” 1 John 3:8.
Not
all theologians agree that every deceased child goes to Heaven (Romans 9:13-15:
“Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’ What then shall we
say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on
whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’”) The
Bible doesn’t address this issue in doctrinaire terms. But there are many
passages from which we can reasonably infer that aborted preborn children will
spend eternity in Glory. For instance, in II Samuel 12:15-23, a Heaven-bound
David says of the death of the child who resulted from his illicit relationship
with Bathsheba, “I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
In
Luke 12:48, Christ explained that “… the one who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.” Little children are
obviously among those who do “things deserving of punishment” but do “not
know.” Notwithstanding the sin nature imparted by the Fall, preborn children
are obviously even more innocent than toddlers. Christ’s promises make clear that
children will be treated with mercy.
Scripture
abounds with testimonies to God’s great love for children. Such passages offer
at least circumstantial evidence of a child’s eligibility for eternal
fellowship with his Father. Matthew 18:2 says that Jesus “… called a little
child and had him stand among them.” In Matthew 18:10, still speaking of that
child, He said, “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For
I tell you that their angels in Heaven always see the face of my Father in Heaven.”
In Mark 10:14, we read, “When Jesus saw this [the apostles preventing children
from approaching Christ] He was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little
children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
such as these.’”
The
notion that God’s mercies cancel our obligations is deeply Satanic and not
least when used to minimize our accountability in response to genocide. Christ
warned in John 8:44 that Satan always lies and Satan always kills. He cautioned
that Satan “was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth.”
The truth is that God hates baby-killing and Satan loves it.
Satan
tried to kill the baby Moses by inspiring Pharaoh’s attempt to annihilate every
male Israelite child in Egypt (Exodus 1:15). The baby Jesus survived a similar
bloodbath as Satan tried to kill Him through Herod’s command that every male
child under the age of two be butchered (Matthew 2:16). Satan would kill God if
he could. Since he can’t, he grieves the heart of God by provoking the
slaughter of children created in God’s image. God signalled His regard for life
in the womb when He chose to become man at the moment of Christ’s conception,
not the moment of His birth.
But
if the horror of baby-butchering were mitigated by the fact that butchered
babies go straight to Heaven, why would God say of child sacrifice in Jeremiah
(7:24-26, 30-31), “… they burn to death their little sons and daughters as
sacrifices to their gods – a deed so horrible I’ve never even thought of it …”?
In
Isaiah 59:2-3, He says, “…[B]ut your iniquities have made a separation between
you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does
not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood ….” The blood of which He
speaks is the blood of murdered children.
In
Ezekiel 16:20-43, He says that His own people “… have enraged me …” with child
sacrifice. In Psalm 106:37-42, He says that because of their child sacrifice “…
Jehovah’s anger burned against His people and He abhorred them. That is why He
let the heathen nations crush them.” In Jeremiah 19:3-11, God says that because
of child sacrifice, “… will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a
potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended.”
I
have actually had pastors tell me that child sacrifice enraged God because it
involved idolatry, not because it involved baby-killing. Did they mean that
baby-killing would have been okay if it weren’t a sacramental element of some
pagan ritual? There can be little doubt that any worship of pagan deities would
have provoked God’s wrath but not the wrath He reserved for worship which
involved child sacrifice. The enemy of our souls claims the same victory
whether a child is slaughtered at the altar of Artemis or Baal or the altar of
selfish “choice.”
But
despite the virtual certainty that an aborted baby inherits eternal life, God’s
will for his mortal life has still been thwarted. God could have created man,
as he did the angels, to remain with Him in Heaven. But instead, He intends for
man to be born, attain the age of reason and choose whether or not to be
reconciled to God and serve Him, for which choices he will be judged.
Satan,
who comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), kills a baby to destroy the
good God intended for that child to eventually confer on His Kingdom. Multiply
that loss by the roughly 50 million babies the World Health Organization
estimates are aborted globally each year. That is 100 million babies every 24
months. A billion is a thousand million. At current rates, that is a billion
babies every 20 years. Can our indifference to such unfathomable carnage please
God?
Rationalizing
that “babies go to Heaven anyway” could argue for abortion and even infanticide
as a means of preempting any possibility that a child might reject Christ after
reaching the “age of reason.” This sort of thinking calls into question the
wisdom of caring about the mortal peril in which any born-again believer of any
age might find himself. Immediately upon their unjust or preventable death,
every believer will go “straight into the arms of Jesus” so why intervene?
Taken
to its logical conclusion, this illogical assertion compels the absurd belief
that we are doing Christians a favor if we actually hasten their departure,
either passively or even actively! In John 16:2 Christ warns that “… in fact, a
time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to
God.” That time seems to have arrived!
This
heresy is beyond lunacy. It is demonic.
Gregg
Cunningham, Esq.
Executive Director
Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
www.AbortionNo.org
Executive Director
Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
www.AbortionNo.org
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