...This was not the title of today's lecture in Infant Development but a topic we touched upon. As we discussed the topic of abortion in class today our instructor voiced her view on abortion in so many words...she's anti as it seems. However, she also stated that she gets upset with Christians who call abortion a sin and who also call the mother who has a child out of wedlock a sinner as well. As you can imagine, when I looked around the room after the statement was made I found almost unanimous head nods of affirmation. I then spoke up and stated that as a Christian I and the Scriptures would consider both sin. I did agree, however, in the statement that some Christians leave no room for redemption for the sinner in either case (whether the unwed mother aborts or keeps the child). She then responded, "well if you say that you make the child a sinner too in a sense," My response: "Yes, the child is both conceived in and born sinful. We find in the Scriptures the doctrine of Total Depravity." I quoted Psalm 51:5, she somewhat agreed with this in that she said basically we're all sinners... no one can deny that but in the sense that we shouldn't judge one another. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

Ok, this is where it gets shaky on my part...I then stated that we can use our sinfulness as a point towards redemption. Once our eyes are open to the fact that we are sinful from birth, we can then be pointed to the solution.

Did I blow it on this one or not? What do y'all think? How would you have handled it differently?

tj
"-that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection..."