Hope for Children - All of Them

"...your children shall come back to their own country."

 - Jeremiah 31

The Fourth Day of Christmas. The Holy Innocents.

Evil men have always used the massacre of children, as a way to establish terror, wipe out a population, totally demoralize an enemy, and model the terror of unfeigned power in the hands of fallible humanity.

Sometimes, the slaughter of innocents is justified: population control (because you know, overpopulation leads to global warming), economy, sustainability, and even, ecology (imagine that).

How about controversy? I am going to present some ideas here that are for discussion. I wonder if people can consider the points without feeling personally offended? The point is to challenge, maybe, but offend, no. If we cannot entertain hard concepts, then we cannot claim to be a progressive culture.

Assume that God really meant it when He said "Be fruitful and multiply." This therefore, is the ultimate step in faith. Men and Women: can you do that? Can you simply populate and repopulate the earth, without manipulating nature through procedures, medications, surgeries, gadgets, devices that will prevent the launch of a . . . . new life?

What would have been the outcome had humanity simply done that, with full trust and faith in the God that commanded it? Is there some beautiful result when the wealth of humanity realizes it's full potential via a complete flowering of its reproductive powers? First of all, God would not allow devastation to a race that follows His command to "be fruitful." We probably would have advanced to the stars hundreds of centuries ago, had we just obeyed. Full Human Potential (FHP) would have been realized scores of generations ago. The universe would have expanded exponentially with the growth of humanity. God called us "good." But governments, and some Science, calls humanity, with frightening increase "not good." Is there a single act of disobedience that more embodies our opposition to our Creator, than that? "No, God. We are NOT good. We must be limited and our growth prevented."

Of course God also would not have allowed the exasperated, unchecked growth of an unruly race. this growth must occur under our full humility and obedience to God. But that is not in our nature. I suggest all of these points, realizing that the playing out of God's plan would not allow this growth of humanity in an unredeemed, un-resurrected state. I simply suggest an ideal scenario, the one we may know, in eternity.

Infinite possibilities, in infinite combinations. We cannot have that when we kill children: the unborn, as well as the born. If we do not value life, even potential life, as a sacred and wonderful thing, we are only proving that we are far from fully actualized. And in God's eyes, it is possible that the very tolerance of abortion, by pro-lifers, itself is abominable.

King Herod did the worst thing of all. His response to the birth of a king that would never challenge  him directly, was to slaughter baby boys everywhere. Terror, in the face of perfect peace. 

And so our response should be to revere and adore the baby, the new life. And to resist, and abhor the wicked human government that fights peace and love, through the most horrible of terror acts.