A Dark Time In Our Time
Yesterday was election day, 2006. The Democrats have taken the House and the Senate is up for grabs as of 11:24 am. In the state of Missouri, incumbant Jim Talent lost his seat to Claire MaCaskill. That disappoints me. But the darkest part of the election is not the inevitable shift in power, for the Democrats will slip up and the Republicans will take the Congress back, it is the passing of Ammendment 2: legalizing the idea of man playing God, cloning.
It is dark to me because we have fallen so far as to lose our sense of morality so that we can selfishly live. My grandfather right now is dying of so many ailments right now. He has very little voice, he can’t walk the short distance from his living room to his bathroom without losing his breath–while on oxygen. I do not say this lightly.
It is dark to me because we have sunken to a new low: we are willing to unethically research stem-cells for the possibility of curse several years, if not decades, into the future. We have no guarantee that this will even work. Adult stem-cells work. But we would much rather legalize cloning, create and destroy human life, so that we can create cures when the process is unyielding of any hope. We would rather spend our money on a doomed process than on one that is showing real signs of hope. How backward we as a society we are. We do not treasure life: we treasure being God.
Then, we are going to have the opponents sueing and trying to have laws passed to hold up the implemenation of this ammendment. Which also saddens me, somewhat. It gives us the appearance of being sore losers. But at the same time, this issue is that important. I hope that those who continue to fight the legal battles will do so in a way that will not discourage people from knowing the truth, embracing the truth, and acting upon the truth.
Yet it is at this dark time that I see the glory of God in Jesus Christ the most. It was by God’s sovereign will that this ammendment passed. Therefore I believe that he can and will turn this ammendment into something that brings the greatest glory to himself. I trust in him during this time of distress and distaste. I believe that he is preparing something so great, so grand, so beautiful, so glorious that I can’t wait to see what it is.
Join me in praying that in spite of this set back, God will be made known to the nations and that his glory will shine forth accross the is planet.
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What do you think about the fertilized embryos that are thrown away during the in vitro fertilization?
I don’t like it any more than using cloning because those embryoes ar still just as human as the clones and they will die as a result of the stem-cell research, unless I haven’t read up enough on it. It just doesn’t solve the problem of dead human beings.
I agree. You just don’t hear a lot about it and I think you should. Every anti-abortion and stem cell platform needs to touch on it.
From what I have heard from some Christian leaders, such as Hank Hanagraaff, the church position on in vitro fertilization is not one of encouragement because of the fact that the spare embryoes are frozen and thawed out for something like stem-cell research. Half of the anti-stem-cell rhetoric came from the fact that the embryoes died in the process and that is just as immoral as abrotion (but I know you already know that). The church should bring this up more I definitely agree there. I am actually surpirsed this compromise didn’t come up more before this amendment was proposed. Like I said though, while this cleans up the cloning issue, the issue of taking advantage of women for getting these embryoes and the death of the human beings in those embryoes still haven’t been solved. If the pro-stem-cell side could have sufficiently answered these questions I will be the first to say lets go for it. But they did not answer any issue and left cloning part of the language of the amendment. Oh well, what is done is done. God is bigger than some state-wide amendment and he brought this about for his own purposes in Christ Jesus so I just trust him with it.