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The biblical view thats younger than the Happy Meal
By Fred Clark, February 18, 2012 7:04 pm
In 1979, McDonalds introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
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That year, Christianity Today edited by Harold Lindsell, champion of inerrancy and author of The Battle for the Bible published a special issue devoted to the topics of contraception and abortion. That issue included many articles that today would get their authors, editors probably even their readers fired from almost any evangelical institution. For example, one article by a professor from Dallas Theological Seminary criticized the Roman Catholic position on abortion as unbiblical. Jonathan Dudley quotes from the article in his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics. Keep in mind that this is from a conservative evangelical seminary professor, writing in Billy Grahams magazine for editor Harold Lindsell:
God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed. The Law plainly exacts: If a man kills any human life he will be put to death (Lev. 24:17). But according to Exodus 21:22-24, the destruction of the fetus is not a capital offense. Clearly, then, in contrast to the mother, the fetus is not reckoned as a soul.
Christianity Today would not publish that article in 2012. They might not even let you write that in comments on their website. If you applied for a job in 2012 with Christianity Today or Dallas Theological Seminary and they found out that you had written something like that, ever, you would not be hired.
At some point between 1968 and 2012, the Bible began to say something different. Thats interesting.
The Rest:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/