hey guys colin here and welcome back to
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as ever please know this video isn't a
sinful attack but rather a biblical
critique in today's video we're going to
be talking about russell moore's
comments regarding killing babies in the
womb and the reason this is so important
is that it demonstrates a disturbing
trend among evangelical leaders in the
evangelical industrial complex as it
were what it demonstrates is that they
don't understand the fundamental issues
behind our culture's desire to kill
babies in the womb now for those who
don't know russell moore is the former
head of the ethics and religious liberty
commission of the southern baptist
convention in the following quote i will
be substituting a certain word that
starts with a for the phrase baby
killing please note that this is my word
not russell's the rest of the quote
though is his in a recent article
russell said the following quote the
reason we have baby killing at all is
because of the loss of the sort of
social trust that would enable
communities and governments and
religious bodies to care for women in
crisis and for children born or unborn
end quote there are several issues here
the first issue is that russell seems to
be blaming the practice of killing
babies in the womb at least in some
major part on christians or at least
lack of trust in christians he
specifically writes that if our
communities trusted our churches more to
care for women in crisis well then we
wouldn't even have baby killing at all
and this is a very common trope among
evangelical leaders today they posit
that if the church would simply love
women more if the church could be
trusted to stop being so judgmental if
they could be trusted to be more
understanding if they could be trusted
to be more generous well then baby
killing roe v wade and all the rest of
it never would have happened in the
first place in other words they look
squarely into the eyes of every
dedicated christian in the us people
much like you watching this video and
they say it's your fault but wait you
might respond i've never killed any
babies and i've actually voted against
the practice of killing babies how is
this my fault well they retort the
reason it's your fault is that you
didn't give enough of your time or your
money to women who are pregnant or to
their children this in turn has caused
them to not trust you or other
christians and they want to kill their
baby now do you see where they're going
with this and ladies and gentlemen we
need to stop buying into this lie that
is being foisted upon us the practice of
baby killing does not stem from a lack
of compassion in the church for women
there is no evidence for that whatsoever
in fact there is a plethora of evidence
to the contrary in the united states
clinics that offer baby killing services
you know the ones i'm talking about are
outnumbered by crisis pregnancy centers
by a margin of over three to one it is
reported that there are about 739 unborn
baby killing clinics in our country yet
there is a whopping 2
700 crisis pregnancy centers and who do
you think is founding and funding these
pregnancy centers is it your local
atheist association is it your local
walmart corporation no they are by and
large almost always started and funded
by conservative christians the very
people who are being blamed for the
problem oh the irony so for a leader
like russell moore to somehow declare
that christians cannot be trusted to
care for women in crisis or that they
haven't been trustworthy in that area
that is absolutely absurd and it has no
basis in reality at all also this proves
russell's entire point wrong from start
to finish think about it russell's
central assertion here is that if our
religious bodies got their act together
if we all joined up to help struggling
women in every institution including
religious institutions and we could be
trusted to do this then these women
wouldn't be killing their unborn babies
at all but in reality religious bodies
primarily conservative christian
churches by the way have come together
they have devoted countless amounts of
money and time and resources to help
these women yet the rate of baby killing
in our country has not been fully or
drastically diminished yet as russell
moore claims and the defense of baby
killing from many of these women has
become even more passionate and enraged
over time so again how can russell moore
claim with any accuracy contrary to
sound reasoning that if the church could
just be trusted in this area then baby
killing would fade away as if it never
happened well it's quite simple the
reason he can assert this and the reason
that so many others can assert this is
because they're using a sort of loophole
a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts you
see there will always be churches and
there will always be christians who
aren't doing as much as they could do
there is not perfection in our
performance on this issue on this side
of heaven we all know that and it's a
clever trick that can be exploited
russell moore can always say under any
circumstances with complete accuracy
that the church could be doing more of
course they could that's always true the
problem is that it doesn't take into
account the truth of whether or not the
church by and large has been doing a
good job or an adequate job or an
admirable job in some way so when you
say that the church needs to be perfect
effectively in order for any of their
efforts to be recognized you've just
given yourself permission to never
recognize any of their efforts because
the church will never be perfect on this
side of heaven but the facts remain
conservative christians in this country
have done more than any other group to
end the practice of baby killing and
that isn't debatable at all so when
conservative leaders come out and
criticize the conservative church on
this topic all the time which they do i
don't take many of their comments
seriously and i don't think you should
either keep in mind i'm not saying that
you can never listen to these people on
this particular topic i'm saying that
comments like these like russell moore's
in the article simply don't work out the
encouraging words of galatians 6 9 apply
well here quote and let us not grow
weary of doing good for in due season we
will reap if we do not give up end quote
this does not guarantee the success of
all of your efforts but it does
guarantee that the lord sees them and
recognizes them if you're a christian
who is diligently giving money or time
or prayer to help solve this problem
keep up the good work and don't listen
to the naysayers who keep telling you
that your lack of compassion is the
problem and with that said let's turn to
another issue in russell moore's
statement in fact this is the
fundamental issue russell's comments do
not reflect a biblical view of human
nature and that's at the root of this
whole thing he says that the lack of
trust in religious bodies or other
institutions is quote the reason we have
baby killing at all end quote that's
what he boils it down to and it's simply
not biblically accurate romans 1
correctly diagnoses the sickness at the
heart of sinful man and romans 1 21 says
this quote for although they knew god
they did not honor him as god or give
thanks to him but they became futile in
their thinking and their foolish hearts
were darkened end quote this is the
fundamental issue refusing to honor god
as god refusing to follow his just and
holy standards when we run away from god
the source of all goodness and light our
foolish hearts become darkened we begin
to see children as clumps of cells
rather than as human beings with souls
made in the image of god we become more
concerned about our right to kill people
than we are about their right to live
the core issue here is secular culture
which is at odds with god and his word
russell moore is blame shifting trying
to place the blame on christians and
other various institutions and the fact
that they can't be trusted to help
struggling women and hurting children
but that will not work studies show that
at least 25 of women who kill their
unborn baby that's one out of four are
living at or above 200 percent of the
federal poverty level in the united
states but wait i thought that if we
just gave them more help and more money
they wouldn't want to do it anymore well
quite simply we know that's not the case
first off financial strain is not a good
excuse for murdering someone anyway and
second at least 25 of these situations
have nothing to do with any kind of real
financial strain one out of four of
these people could definitely afford to
have a child they just don't want to so
again is the church the problem or is
sinful decision making the problem i'll
leave it to you to decide russell moore
thinks that society is at fault but the
facts don't support his conclusion
studies show that over 70 of women who
obtain a baby killing procedure do so
because the child in the womb would
interfere with their education or their
career is this really something that we
can lay at the feet of the pro-life
church this is clearly an individual
choice a personal assessment on the part
of the woman she wants her education or
her career opportunities more than she
wants that baby to live and this
accounts for three out of four baby
killing procedures in this country so
for russell moore to suggest that the
lack of institutional trust is the
fundamental reason that people want to
kill their babies it's just wrong the
real reason people want to do this is
because they are sinful and they do not
submit to god's law the statistics show
that rational thinking shows that and
most importantly the bible shows that
james 4 2 says quote you desire and do
not have so you murder end quote killing
comes from unrestrained desire and
selfishness in this case its desire for
career desire for education desire for
more stability murder cannot be
eradicated by money or resources or
community organizing or institutional
trust because there will always be
people who do not respond to these
things the christian church and
christian charities have done more to
help struggling women in america than
any other group of people by far it's
not even close so next time you hear
someone saying the kind of thing russell
moore says here don't buy it it's
absolutely untrue in virtually every way
so keep up the good work if you're
following the biblical standard here
don't be complacent or apathetic towards
struggling people of any kind and don't
get discouraged and blame yourself for
sinful decisions that other people make
i pray that this has been a blessing to
you and please know this i do not offer
any of this correction from a high and
mighty position i am nothing but a
wretched sinner saved by the grace of
jesus christ so let's pray for russell
moore that he would stop this false
teaching by god's grace and turn to the
truth of god's word thank you so much
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