Finn O’Connor’s Weblog

Okay before every Christian has a breakdown. I AM NOT SAYING GOD IS PRO-ABORTION. Wait your still not listening. So take a minute, count to five and breath deep. Are you calmer? Is your pulse below 90? Good so I will repeat it, God is NOT pro-abortion. But he is pro-choice.

Years ago I made this statement on a Christian talk radio show and the phones never stopped ringing. Most callers were from people screaming God is not pro-abortion. The problem was and still is that people cannot separate those two phrases, Pro-Choice and Pro-Abortion. But I assure you there is a difference. And that difference is never more evident then in the statement God is pro-choice. And pro-life.

For everyone of Christian faith, the most precious gift given to us is salvation through Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins. But do you know what is the second most precious gift given to all of us by God?

It is free will.

God gives all of us the free will to do what we want whether it is right, legal, good for us, bad for us or bad for others. He has even given us the free will to believe whether there is a God or not. And he has given woman the free will to have an abortion.

Now here is where I may lose some of you. I believe abortion is wrong. I believe it is ending a human beings life. I am sure all of you reading this do not believe that. You have the right to believe what you want. Remember, free will?

Here is where I lose more of you. I believe abortion is a sin and so does God but since God has given you free will, you have the choice to sin. Does God like it? I can tell you equivocally no. But he gives you the right to make that choice. But I am not telling you to go out and do what ever you believe is your free will because all choices come with a price. And some of those choices may even be illegal.

By now, I am positive that some of my readers are still chanting while reading this, God is not pro-abortion, God is not pro-abortion. And for those readers, this article never had a chance. And for those of my readers who see that I think abortion is a sin. Well I am sure you are equally blind to the point of this article. But the one thing that is rock solid is that God does give us a choice in what to do in life, in all manners of life including whether or not to have an abortion and whether or not to believe in him. Why? Because he is pro-choice. Thank God for his first precious gift.

Finn