3 Reasons Christians Reject Abortion and the LGBT Agenda
By Pastor Jon Mark Olesky
There are 3 primary reasons Christians must reject abortion and the LGBT agenda.
I highlight those cultural sins because Scripture highlights them as particularly destructive to society, the family, the church, and the self, even more than other sins.
Too many Christians feel under-equipped with maybe a proof text or their own personal outrage. This is insufficient when there is a cord of three strands that is not easily broken in which to tie ourselves:
The Law
God’s Character
Nature Itself
The Law
For many years now Christians have seen that in God’s law, we have adequate clarity for these matters. Especially the “3-fold division of the law,” which teaches that God’s law, as revealed to Israel at Mount Sinai, can be and should be divided into three elements: moral, ceremonial, judicial. This division serves the church with a correct understanding of theology, ethics, and soteriology.
While it’s true that for Israel all these laws were moral, the threefold division is helpful in understanding how Christians should relate to the law.
Christians rightly see the ceremonial fulfilled in Christ, and still debate the applications of the judicial, yet most agree that the Ten Commandments are perpetually binding and existed before Sinai and continue to be the ethical standard for all people, including Christians.
Regarding the moral law, Herman Bavinck rightly said,
The moral law as such is not an arbitrary positive law but a law grounded in the nature of God himself…In maintaining the law, God maintains himself and vice versa. It is therefore unbreakable and inviolable. It bears this character throughout the Scriptures; our own conscience bears witness to it; and the entire so-called moral world order, with its phenomena of responsibility, sense of duty, guilt, repentance, dread, remorse, punishment, and so on, is based on this inviolability.
Leviticus 17–20 is our spot, it covers a lot: from goat demons, to the meaning of blood, to the holiness of God, to types of sexual perversions and deviances, to child sacrifice to Molech and punishments for it, all flowing into objective ways to love your neighbor as yourself.
You’ll find in the same stream of thought “you shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister” (Lev 18:9) regarding incest, to “you should not give any of your children to offer them to Molech” (v.21) and “you shall not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination. And you should not lie with any animal… it is a perversion” (v.22-23).
God’s Character
Before and after these prohibitions, you have the refrain beginning with ”I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules” (18:4-5) and ending with “I am the Lord your God” (v.30).
Since these prohibitions are rooted God himself they remain binding, and they are why the NT (after law is fulfilled) upholds this standard (Rom 1:26-27) “God gave them up to dishonorable passions, women exchange natural relations for those that are contrary to nature, likewise men…”
Nature Itself
This is why arguments against LGBT behaviors and abortion are not merely arguments with a scriptural proof text, but arguments from nature itself: “you can’t procreate, society can’t continue, it contradicts biology, mothers can’t kill their children no matter the circumstances,” etc.
These are ultimately arguments regarding nature. Human nature’s distortions not only violate God‘s law and God’s character, but are an affront to God’s creative design.
The argument from Scripture is quite holistic, because it is rooted in 1) the character of God, which is revealed specifically in 2) his law, and and that law reveals what is in accord with 3) human nature and maximum human flourishing.