Some Facts About Planned Parenthood

August 28, 2012 abortion No Comments

Please consider some of the facts about Planned Parenthood:
1.  Planned Parenthood has a net worth of over $1 billion.
2.  Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States.
3.  Planned Parenthood performs an abortion on over 91% of its pregnant clients.
4.  Planned Parenthood aborts over 300,000 babies a year.
5.  Planned Parenthood’s abortions:  over half of all aborted babies are girls–that is the real war on women!
(Statistics from Ohio Right To Life, spring, 2012).
46% of the revenue that Planned Parenthood receives comes from government health service grants and reimbursements.  The organization cannot legally use taxpayer dollars for an abortion, however, the agency does not segregate funds as it should and consequently, taxpayer dollars do go to support abortions.  Christianity Today reported in the February, 2012 issue that members of the pro-life group Live Action posed as a pimp and prostitute in hidden-camera missions designed to expose Planned Parenthood’s underbelly.  They asked for and received help from Planned Parenthood employees in four states to obtain abortions for the underage girls they supposedly “manage.”  Planned Parenthood aided underage sex trafficking by offering to provide the abortions.  Earlier this year, the House of Representatives voted to defund Planned Parenthood.  The amendment to defund Planned Parenthood lost in the Senate 42 to 58.  No Democratic Senator voted for defunding.  Eleven states have moved to eliminate or defund Planned Parenthood (Christianity Today, February, 2012, pp. 17-19).
Abortion involves the murder of innocent children.  Human life begins at conception.  At that moment, God gives each person a soul.  Consider the following Scriptures:  (1)  Ecclesiastes 12:7, “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”  (2)  Hebrews 12:9, “Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”  The materialists of our day deny that man has a soul.  But, God says otherwise.  Abortion is a sin in God’s sight.  “These six things doeth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren” (Proverbs 6:16-19).  Those who reverence God, will restrain themselves from transgressing His holy Will.  Do you fear God?

Accuracy of the Bible

August 13, 2012 Bible No Comments
Clay Bulla 0.6 inches wide with Bethlehem on it

     Hershel Shanks reported recently in Biblical Archaeology Review (September/October, 2012, p. 12) a new find from a wet sifting of dirt provided by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).  The wet sifting was done by Zachi Zweig and Gaby Barkay of dirt that came from the IAA’s excavation of the City of David (also known as Bethlehem).  The find is a tiny clay bulla about 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) wide.  It contains for the first time in any ancient archaeological context the name of the city of Bethlehem.  According to the Hebrew Bible, King David was born in Bethlehem, and according to the New Testament, Jesus was born in Bethlehem.  A bulla is a seal impression.  The seal itself was used to impress a small piece of clay that secured a shipment or document (p. 12).  In this case, the seal is what is known as a “fiscal bulla.”  The fiscal bulla seem to be part of Judah’s taxation system in the time of Hezekiah (727-697 B.C.E.) or Manasseh (697-642 B.C.E.).  The bulla indicated the city from which the payment had come.  The three-line Bethlehem bulla reads: “In the seventh (year of the king’s reign) (taxes from the City of) [B]ethlehem, to (or “for”) the king.” (Hershel Shank, “Bethlehem” from IAA Dig Found by Archaeologist IAA Arrested” in Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October, 2012, p. 12).
Many such details from the Bible have been validated by archaeological finds such as this.  It is a remarkable testimony to the accuracy of the Bible and the veracity of the Scriptures.  As noted in a previous blog on this site, the Book of Mormon does not have a single fact that has been documented historically outside of the book itself!  The Bible stands alone as the Word of God!
Reform Jewish Scholar Nelson Glueck said, “It is worth emphasizing that in all this work no archeological discovery has ever controverted a single, properly understood Biblical statement” (Horizon, 2/2, (Nov., 1959) 6 -as quoted by Gordon H. Clark, The Trinity Review, no. 302, Sept.-Oct., 2011, p. 4).