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More Wack Analogies and Scripture-less Arguments From Scott Klusendorf
Scott Klusendorf has published another article defending pro-life incrementalism and criticizing abolitionism, this time at The Gospel Coalition (TGC). Let’s get right into it. 1) Rhetorical Demonizing In a previous article on the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion, Klusendorf wrote that abolitionists will “wield it like a cudgel” against pro-life compromise. In the TGC…
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WATCH: Romans 13 Teaches That Civil Government Must Submit to Christ
Romans 13 is commonly used to teach Christians about our duty to obey civil authorities. But rarely, if ever, is this chapter used to teach what the Lord reveals concerning the duty of those authorities themselves. All authority resides in God, and He delegates it to others in certain spheres. Romans 13:4 identifies governing authority…
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Abolitionist Perspective on the Texas Heartbeat Bill: Three Quick Observations
The Texas Heartbeat Bill is big news at the moment, as it is the first such bill banning abortion pre-viability to go into effect since Roe v. Wade. The reason the 5th circuit court and supreme court declined to give the serial killers at Whole Women’s Health the injunction they were asking for is because…
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Catechism for Anti-Abolitionists (Pro-Choice and Pro-Life)
1) Why is abortion not sinful? Because the victims are preborn. 2) Why do those who most fancy themselves the champions of equality and justice support abortion? Because their victims are preborn. 3) Why is it wrong and judgemental to call abortion “murder?” Because the victims are preborn. 4) Why is it unconstitutional to abolish…
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Moving Beyond Regulationism: A Response to David Norman
During the floor debate at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. David Norman made a motion to indefinitely postpone the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion — effectively killing it. Here, we will examine Norman’s stated reasons for his motion and the assumptions and errors he makes. Reason #1: Abolition Repudiates Previous Pro-life SBC Resolutions Norman opened…
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The Rise and Progress of Abortion Abolitionism in the Southern Baptist Convention
Three weeks ago, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) adopted a mold-breaking resolution calling for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise,” and further, for the convention to “lament any complicity” in pro-life incrementalism which “compromises God’s holy standard of justice” by establishing “incremental, regulatory guidelines for when, where, why, and how to obtain…
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Against Pro-Life Compromise: Responding to Denny Burk, Andrew Walker, et al.
The passage of the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Annual Meeting two weeks ago has sparked a slew of articles from pro-life SBC leaders opposing it. This article is the third installment in a series of articles here on the FTS blog responding to the anti-abolitionist pieces of…
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Responding to Klusendorf and Newman: Trading a Prophetic Voice for Cowardly Compromise
On Wednesday, Scott Klusendorf and Marc Newman published an article for Townhall defending pro-life incrementalism in response to the recently passed Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion. The resolution was a thoroughly biblical, decidedly abolitionist document that called for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.” Sounds great, right? Not to Klusendorf and…
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Refuting Dana Hall McCain’s Nonsensical Anti-Abolitionist Slander
Dana Hall McCain, a member of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee, wrote an article opposing the Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion, which was passed by the convention last week. She makes six main arguments, none of which amount to a formidable refutation of abolitionism or the resolution. As will be demonstrated, her…
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The Antidote to Van Maren’s Poison
Jonathan Van Maren partially responded to our article which corrected his false statements from a podcast episode with Josh Brahm on various aspects of the history of the Abortion Abolition Movement and the Slavery Abolition Movement. Van Maren responded to three of the eleven points in our article. Part two of Van Maren and Brahm’s…
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