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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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esponsibility to subdue and exerc<strong>is</strong>e dominion over the earth. I alsoestabl<strong>is</strong>hed God’s prohibition about the Tree of Knowledge of Goodand Evil. Th<strong>is</strong> creation covenant includes a procreation clause, if youwill, to allow for other people to experience God’s covenantal grace.Part of man’s covenant responsibility <strong>is</strong> to “be fruitful, and multiply,and replen<strong>is</strong>h the earth.” 174 God always provides for the futuresuccession of a covenant. Reproduction <strong>is</strong> intrinsic to the holy andpermanent institution of marriage. Since conception marks thebeginning of personhood and God <strong>is</strong> the author of life, abortiond<strong>is</strong>annuls a specific part of God’s creation covenant, the successionof the covenant. We are not upholding our part of God’s covenantwith us when we kill our unborn children.186Gen. 1:28; see also Gen. 9:1.272

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