Irrefutable history


By Jim Killebrew

[December 15, 2014]  Let's examine a small portion of the Western world's thinking process of logic as it relates to the upcoming Christmas celebration. Christmas, of course, is the time we celebrate the Birthday of Jesus. Jesus, the baby, was born in a certain time and a certain place. His birth is a matter of record and a point in history that is identified even by extra-Biblical accounts. Even the most ardent atheist cannot deny the impact and influence Jesus has had on the world. Throughout the ages since His birth He has attracted multiple millions of people who even in today's world would rather go to their death than deny His name.

Yet, in a roundabout way, in Modern America we have actually created laws that would have had a significant possibility of preventing the birth of Jesus. Since 1973 when the procedures for abortion became the law of the land, there have been over 57,441,000 babies aborted in the United States. Consider the following passage from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament Bible:

1:39 In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

1:40 and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth.

1:41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

1:42 She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

1:43 And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

1:44 For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

1:45 And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:39-45)

Notice when Mary, the Mother of Jesus, became pregnant with God's Holy Son, she went to visit Elizabeth. Notice in verse 41 it was a baby in Elizabeth's womb that leaped when Elizabeth heard the voice of Mary. Then Elizabeth acknowledged to Mary how blessed Mary was, and the blessedness of the child in Mary's womb. Finally, Elizabeth recounted to Mary again the response her baby had when Mary spoke. The response was intentional and contingent upon the voice of the Mother of Jesus.

In today's Western logic one component of the rationale for the legality of abortion is the ability of the Western mind to deny the "humanness" of the child inside the mother's womb. In a misnomer, and an attempt to mislead the actual truth, Western logic has relegated the child in the womb as a "fetus" or a "mass of tissue." It is thought to be "non-human" until after the "life form" becomes sentient, or conscious after the "fetus" is born. Prior to the actual birth the life has entered the nether land of having no rights whatsoever other than the "woman's right to choose."

It is entirely possible, perhaps even probable, under the current laws of America there would be no Christmas to celebrate; Jesus would likely never have been born under our laws.

[By JIM KILLEBREW]