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Abortion question.

Deo Vindice

Member
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven. That of course is a given. However what he went on to say afterwords left a lot of the congregation scratching their heads. He spoke of the unclean spirits of the unsaved babies haunting the wombs of their promiscuous mothers as punishment from God. I don't like to question my pastor, but this doesn't seem biblically sound to me. It seems obvious that the souls of the aborted babies would go strait to hell rather than hang around and torment their mothers as ghosts in their wombs? Perhaps I misunderstood him. If not, I wonder if the hauntings stop if they repent?
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
With all due respect, your threads are disturbing...
no wonder you chose "through God the avenger" as username
 

stvdv

Veteran Member
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven. That of course is a given. However what he went on to say afterwords left a lot of the congregation scratching their heads. He spoke of the unclean spirits of the unsaved babies haunting the wombs of their promiscuous mothers as punishment from God. I don't like to question my pastor, but this doesn't seem biblically sound to me. It seems obvious that the souls of the aborted babies would go strait to hell rather than hang around and torment their mothers as ghosts in their wombs? Perhaps I misunderstood him. If not, I wonder if the hauntings stop if they repent?

Some pastors have a wild imagination. This seems one of them. I think that no human knows the answer about this. They can claim to know, but that does not make it true.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven. That of course is a given.
Actually, no. There is no scripture to support that position and King David's first-born was not baptized but went to Heaven.

However what he went on to say afterwords left a lot of the congregation scratching their heads. He spoke of the unclean spirits of the unsaved babies haunting the wombs of their promiscuous mothers as punishment from God. I don't like to question my pastor, but this doesn't seem biblically sound to me. It seems obvious that the souls of the aborted babies would go strait to hell rather than hang around and torment their mothers as ghosts in their wombs? Perhaps I misunderstood him. If not, I wonder if the hauntings stop if they repent?
I would change churches. IMO. This is an unsupported religious hogwash. IMO.
 

Cacotopia

Let's go full Trottle
This pastor of yours is up there with the Muslim televangelist that says your hands get preggers in heaven if you grip and rip.
 

Frog

Cult of Kek.
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven. That of course is a given. However what he went on to say afterwards left a lot of the congregation scratching their heads. He spoke of the unclean spirits of the unsaved babies haunting the wombs of their promiscuous mothers as punishment from God. I don't like to question my pastor, but this doesn't seem biblically sound to me. It seems obvious that the souls of the aborted babies would go strait to hell rather than hang around and torment their mothers as ghosts in their wombs? Perhaps I misunderstood him. If not, I wonder if the hauntings stop if they repent?
Your church is a circus steered by a fanatic. This is what brings when religion takes superiority over spirituality, untamed, running amok, unable to rationalize scripture and weighing irrelevance.
 
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Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven. That of course is a given. However what he went on to say afterwords left a lot of the congregation scratching their heads. He spoke of the unclean spirits of the unsaved babies haunting the wombs of their promiscuous mothers as punishment from God. I don't like to question my pastor, but this doesn't seem biblically sound to me. It seems obvious that the souls of the aborted babies would go strait to hell rather than hang around and torment their mothers as ghosts in their wombs? Perhaps I misunderstood him. If not, I wonder if the hauntings stop if they repent?

Ask you pastor what drugs he's using, then stay away from those drugs.
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
True.... True...

But I don't think that is a good reason to stay away from church but rather find a better church.

Unfortunately most, if not all "churches", have an agenda that must be accepted before you can belong; and you are expected to follow the teachings blindly and without question. Once you start thinking for yourself and discovering you own truth you'll start seeing how shallow most of these denominations really are.
 

stvdv

Veteran Member
During church service a few weeks ago our pastor gave a sermon about abortion. He said that because the babies are not properly baptized they cannot enter The Kingdom of Heaven
Actually, no. There is no scripture to support that position and King David's first-born was not baptized but went to Heaven
Are we talking about "aborted" babies won't go to heaven when not properly baptized?
I am curious if "King David's first born, not baptized, who went to heaven" was "aborted"

It seems from the context it's about aborted babies. If that is the case God needs to update His justice system
But more probably the pastor needs to find another job, because obviously he is not good in this job
 

stvdv

Veteran Member
Unfortunately most, if not all "churches", have an agenda that must be accepted before you can belong; and you are expected to follow the teachings blindly and without question. Once you start thinking for yourself and discovering you own truth you'll start seeing how shallow most of these denominations really are.

I went to a Baptist Church and questioned the priest "judging others (and religions) in his sermons" and said "but I think there will be 1 person of the 4000 thinking different.
NO, he claimed all 4000 think the same. This pastor did have a photographic memory, knowing all 4000 by name etc. So I do believe him telling this. So you seem right IME.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Actually, no. There is no scripture to support that position and King David's first-born was not baptized but went to Heaven.
I think that is technically incorrect. Nobody goes to heaven till the end of time when God will judge the people. The traffic to heaven and hell will start at that time. Presently, the buildings are ready to be occupied but absolutely empty. It could be anytime, depending on the desire (whim) of the old man.
 

stvdv

Veteran Member
I think that is technically incorrect. Nobody goes to heaven till the end of time when God will judge the people. The traffic to heaven and hell will start at that time. Presently, the buildings are ready to be occupied but absolutely empty. It could be anytime, depending on the desire (whim) of the old man.

I fully agree. Although I thought "God was ageless, beyond time"
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Are we talking about "aborted" babies won't go to heaven when not properly baptized?
I am curious if "King David's first born, not baptized, who went to heaven" was "aborted"

It seems from the context it's about aborted babies. If that is the case God needs to update His justice system
But more probably the pastor needs to find another job, because obviously he is not good in this job


Uhhh...no babies were baptized back then, no matter what their air sucking status happened to be...just sayin'.
 

pearl

Well-Known Member
Does Limbo still exist in Christian mythology or was that scrapped?

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned it has been 'scrapped'.
"Vatican-appointed theologians is about to recommend that the Catholic Church close the doors of limbo forever. Many Catholics grew up thinking limbo -- the place where babies who have died without baptism spend eternity in a state of "natural happiness" but not in the presence of God -- was part of Catholic tradition. Instead, it was a hypothesis -- a theory held out as a possible way to balance the Christian belief in the necessity of baptism with belief in God's mercy. Like hypotheses in any branch of science, a theological hypothesis can be proven wrong or be set aside when it is clear it does not help explain Catholic faith. "
The 1992 Catechism maintains a very deliberate silence about limbo.
 
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