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Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [31] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [4] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy". [32]
There has always been much debate over the 'Christian views on suicide', with early Christians believing that suicide is sinful and an act of blasphemy. Modern Christians do not consider suicide an unforgivable sin (though still wrong and sinful) or something that prevents a believer who died by suicide from achieving eternal life. [1] [2] [3]
Some scholars have concluded that early Christians took a nuanced stance on what is now called abortion and that at different times, and in separate places, early Christians have taken different stances. [15] [16] [17] Other scholars have concluded that early Christians considered abortion a sin at all stages; although there is disagreement ...
Other writers say that early Christians considered abortion a sin even before ensoulment. [148] According to some, the magnitude of the sin was, for the early Christians, on a level with general sexual immorality or other lapses; [149] according to others, they saw it as "an evil no less severe and social than oppression of the poor and needy ...
In Theravada Buddhism, for a monk to so much as praise death, including dwelling upon life's miseries or extolling stories of possibly blissful rebirth in a higher realm in a way that might condition the hearer to die by suicide or to pine away to death, is explicitly stated as a breach in one of highest vinaya codes, the prohibition against ...
Abortion is far more complex than the false binary choice between one or the other. To ratify abortion on demand does not exhibit God’s love fully any more than does prohibiting all abortion.
There are no prohibitions of abortion in the Confucian texts, nor mention of it in the earliest Vedas. While there is no direct mention of abortion in the Bible, Exodus 21:22–24 states that a man who causes a woman to miscarry may be fined. The same passage states in contrast, that murder is punishable by death.
Final day of early voting Nov. 2 drew steady flow of voters to polls across Henderson County ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5 Bible, abortion rights, social issues drew Henderson County residents ...