Re: New Abortion Quiz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry M. Gray" <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: New Abortion Quiz

> George wrote:
>>
>>Furthermore, we now know that a large number - I have seen estimates
>>considerably higher than 50% - of conceptuses are spontaneously aborted at
>>such an early stage that the mother is seldom even aware that she was
>>pregnant. It seems odd to think that Heaven (or Limbo for RCs) is going
>>to be primarily populated by such human beings.
>
> I've never understood the force of this argument. Why does the fact of
> spontaneous abortion influence the discussion at all? The fact of infant
> mortality doesn't influence arguments against infanticide, does it?
>
> While I'm not sure he had aborted persons in mind here, the Reformed
> theologian Lorraine Boettner, arguing that all who die in infancy must be
> counted among the elect, claimed that the vast multitudes of heaven would
> be from these.
>
> Setting aside my personal take on Boettner's argument, it's clear that he
> didn't think such thinking to be "odd". Striking George as "odd" doesn't
> make it not true.

True. By itself the fact doesn't prove anything. Taken together with the
other points I noted it may be significant.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Thu Oct 14 06:13:49 2004