The Bible does not deal specifically with abortion. For that matter, it does not deal specifically with infanticide, the killing of babies. Nor does it talk about parricide, fratricide, uxoricide (killing of one’s wife), nor genocide (the killing of a whole race). Examples of such crimes are mentioned, but not singled out for special treatment. In fact, the Bible does not even discuss suicide (self-killing). There are specific provisions against homicide – the deliberate taking of human life (“killing” or “slaying” is the usual expression). The Bible prohibits the taking of innocent human life. If the developing fetus is shown to be a human being, then we do not need a specific commandment against feticide (abortion) any more than we need something specific against uxoricide (wife-killing). The general commandment against killing covers both.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. (1940–2021), Bestseller-Autor und Verfasser von Ratgeberliteratur
Topics: Ethical Questions, The Bible & the Word of God
Occasions: For Reflection
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer Werbetexter und Bestsellerautor, der von 1940 bis 2021 vor allem in Nashville wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch das Werk „Life’s Little Instruction Book“, eine Sammlung lebensnaher Ratschläge zu Werten wie Güte, Demut und persönlicher Integrität. Für Bibelleser bieten seine pointierten Maximen alltagspraktische Anknüpfungspunkte an christliche Ethik, auch wenn Kritiker seine Spruchsammlungen mitunter als seicht einstuften.
All quotes by H. Jackson Brown Jr. (3)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
C.S. Lewis
The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother Teresa
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are no ordinary people; every neighbor carries eternal significance.
C.S. Lewis
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Desmond Tutu