The Gosnell Trial and the Image of God

The Gosnell Trial and Destroying the Image of God [Excerpts]

Kirsten Powers’ article on the trial of abortion “doctor” Kermit Gosnell...is something not to be missed. Powers rightly calls out the odd suppression and, in some cases, revisionism being practiced by the media where the current Pennsylvania abortion trial is concerned.

Let’s be clear about what this trial is all about. During some abortions, Gosnell delivered babies alive and then literally beheaded them in his abortion clinic, according to staff that observed the procedures. Performing about 1,000 abortions per year, prosecutors assert Gosnell made millions from taking the lives of both newly born and unborn children.

However, Powers chronicles the media silence that has accompanied the Gosnell trial and contrasts their wide coverage of insignificant events that never belonged on Page One. “The deafening silence of too much of the media,” she says, “once a force for justice in America, is a disgrace.”

With all the public outrage and outcry over any violation of human rights, isn’t it strange that there is no major coverage of the Gosnell case in the mainstream media?

Abortion is nothing new, including (sadly) the killing of newborn babies. “Deformed infants shall be killed,” said Cicero (106-43 B.C.) “We drown children who are weakly and abnormal,” said Seneca (A.D. 65). Archaeological evidence found at Delphi revealed a census taken of 600 families with only one percent of them having more than one daughter.

So as horrifying as what occurred at Gosnell’s clinic is, it’s a bloodstain that’s very old.

But again, why do the same voices upset over human rights violation cover their mouth in cases like the Philadelphia abortion trial? Why does logic that produces laws protecting the eggs of endangered birds not extend to human beings?

I’d like to propose that the answer is a spiritual one. The first book of the Bible declares that human beings are created Imago Dei – in the image of God: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen:1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
See All...). Contrary to what Ingrid Newkirk, head of PETA, says (“A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy”[1]) we are not animals, but instead are imprinted with the image of the Creator.

We must understand that the Bible also introduces the enemy of both God and humankind in its opening book. Throughout Scripture we learn of Satan’s desire to manifest the image of God (Is. 14:14), of his intense hatred for God and His people (Rev:12:17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
See All...), and that he was and is a murderer from the beginning (John:8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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From a spiritual standpoint, abortion (and every act of murder) is all about exterminating the image of God. Satan hates God, and by extension all those who are made in His image, and is tireless is his pursuit of killing that image.

We are also taught in the Bible of Satan’s position as god of this world (2 Cor:4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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See All...) and holds them captive to do his will (2 Tim:2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
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If you’ve ever agonized over why many champion abortion, guard its practice, and carry out abortion procedures, you need look no further than the four Bible verses just mentioned.

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/the-gosnell-trial-and-destroying-the-image-of-god-15615/