Abort! Abortions: The Killing Fields

By Salidor C. Coetzee

ABORT! ABORTIONS
The Killing Fields

Statutory rape and abortion. A true, life event - A must read by everyone. Non-fiction, Religious and Educational contents, many lessons to be learned.
How “YOU” and “I” developed and became the “ME”! Everyone has a right to life, even the unborn in the mother’s womb. “OUR BODIES, OUR SOULS”.
Far more babies have died in the wombs of their mother’s, than people killed in World War 1 & 2 combined. Many catastrophic events are unfolding, amongst others global warming. However, abortions are a much bigger apocalyptic event than global warming and all the violence and political unrests of the world combined.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK OURSELVES. ARE ABORTIONS A WOMAN’S CHOICE OR ARE THEY A MODERN HOLOCAUST?
“A PROMISE MADE IS A PROMISE TO KEEP”. One disastrous family event changed my whole life. From a staunch supporter of abortions to a Pro Life Activist. During the last week of May 2010, just before the start of the FIFA World Cup Soccer in South Africa, I promised God through my wife on her deathbed after borrowed to us from a coma, that I will tell the world that ABORTION is a deadly sin, only God can give and take life. Hope the message in the book speaks to the inner soul of each person who reads it. May the message spread and enrich the life’s, of many people.
On the foreheads of unborn killed in their mother’s wombs are written “INNOCENT”, a not guilty plea. The reader needs to understand that those innocent unborn babies killed, are now little angels in heaven. The last Chapter of the book teaches about God’s Grace, Love and Forgiveness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Mar 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543759488

Salidor C. Coetzee

The Author was born in 1958 in South Africa where he lived most of his life. He obtained a wealth of experience, amongst other 3 and a half years forced military service during the “apartheid” years in the then South African Defense Force (SADF), where he qualified as Captain in the Mechanized Infantry Force. After compulsory military service, he obtained a B Compt. Accounting Degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1987. After political transition in 1995, when Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa, he completed an Executive Development Program (EDP) at the University of Stellenbosch, Graduate School of Business, in 1999. He worked for more than 20 years at SASOL LTD, a South African Oil and Gas company listed on the Johannesburg (JSE) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), respectively. As member of a broader strategic business management team, he functioned for more than 15 years as Financial Manager of various Strategic Business Units within the SASOL Group of companies. He later completed a SASOL 2020 Senior Leadership Program at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg South Africa. He then went on to obtain his Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree at the University of Pretoria, in May 2006. The University of Pretoria or now Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), digitized his MBA Research Report as part of the “Open Scholarship and Digitisation Programme, 2017”, whereby the university officially recognized him as the author of his own publication titled “Creating High Performance Value Chain Organizations (HPVCO)”. He ironically worked and lived in both Iran and Saudi Arabia. He worked for a short period in Iran as Financial Manager of Araya Sasol Polymer Company (ASPC), a Joint Venture (JV) between SASOL South Africa and Iranian National Petrochemical Company (NPC). Apart, from working in Iran, he also worked for more than 6 years in Saudi Arabia as a Cost Engineerof major projects. Despite limited financial resources, he managed to visit many countries and cities. Countries such as Paris (France), London (UK), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bangkok and Phuket (Thailand), Manilla and Cebu City (Philippines), München and Dusseldorf (Germany), Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Singapore, Istanbul (Turkey) and many African countries and cities. His ever passion for quality education and sharing of knowledge and expertise, including to the less fortunate and His intense belief in God, his Creator constantly motivates him to inform and educate people through his books, across the globe. His main objectives as an author are not only to inform and educate people, but to also promote and build a diversified capacity of mutual trust, respect and understanding between nations, each other individually and groups of people, to respect the dignity of all. He was married for more than 28 years to Charlotte Freda Coetzee (Van Heerden) who passed away on June 4, 2010 due to breast cancer, just before the start of the FIFA World Cup Soccer on June 11, 2010 in South Africa. Salidor and Charlotte have 4 children of their own.

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Contents

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

WHEN AND HOW LIFE STARTED AND GOVERNMENT’S ROLE TO PROTECT LIFE

A BIBLICAL VIEW

GOVERNMENT’S ROLE IS TO SERVE AND PROTECT

THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR A WORLD IN TURMOIL

A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

■Abraham and His Two Sons

■How Princess Hagar Became Sarah’s Maidservant

■Abraham and Ishmael Reunite as Father and Son

■Abraham and Ishmael Continued a Sound Relationship

CHAPTER 2

RULE BOOK FOR HUMAN LIFE – YOUR GUIDE AND COMPASS

CHAPTER 3

PURPOSE OF LIFE, BORN TO BE REBORN (REBIRTH)

THE WORD BECAME FLESH

THE NEW BIRTH, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

CHRIST EXALTED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST

FALSE PROPHETS AND THE ANTICHRIST ARE ALREADY IN THIS WORLD

GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE, JESUS REPRESENTS GOD’S LOVE

THE AUTHORITY OF THE SON, JESUS IS EQUAL WITH GOD

JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE, HIS FLESH IS THE BREAD TO THE WORLD

IT IS THE SPIRIT WHO GIVES LIFE

I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL

JESUS, SON OF GOD, HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE, THE ‘ONENESS’

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE REBORN (REBIRTH)?

CHAPTER 4

TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS, AND TEMPTATIONS

INTRODUCTION

WHY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS?

TAKE UP YOUR CROSS

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, A CATALYST FOR GROWTH

COMFORT IN SUFFEREING

TEMPTATIONS

FROM SUFFERING TO GLORY

BE BOLD, COMMITTED, AND STAND FIRM IN YOUR BELIEF

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GOD IN YOUR LIFE

YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS

HOW TO BE A GOOD CHRISTIAN

Psalm 140: PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL MEN

CHAPTER 5

MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY, BIRTH CONTROL, AND DIVORCE

MARRIAGE, A SACRED INSTITUITION OF GOD

■MARRIAGE TRIANGLE, GOD THE FOCUS POINT

■SPIRAL OF SIN, FOUNDATION OF EVIL

SEXUALITY AND BIRTH CONTROL

CATHOLIC THEOLOGY OF SEXUALITY

NATURAL LAW

SCRIPTURE, THE WORD OF GOD

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: PROTECT THE DIGNITY OF MARRIAGES

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: BREAKAGES IN MARRIAGES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 6

WHEN HUMAN LIFE BEGINS – UNBORN CHILD

INTRODUCTION

BEGINNING OF LIFE STARTS AT FERTILISATION (LAUNCH PAD)

■Research and the Abortion Debate

■Fertilisation, the Catalyst for Life

■Definition of an Embryo

BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE OF LIFE

■Jesus Is the Bright Shining Star

BEGINNING OF LIFE, BIBLE SCRIPTURES

VALUE OF LIFE

GOD IS THE CREATOR OF THE PREBORN

GOD IS CONCERNED WITH THE PREBORN IN THE MOTHER’S WOMB

THE PREBORN IS A HUMAN BEING

■Foetal Development and Listening and Hearing Abilities

LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, A WORLDLY VIEW OF WHEN LIFE BEGINS

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 7

ABORTION – EMERGENCY, WAKE-UP CALL

BACKGROUND

PRESIDENT OF AMERICA DONALD TRUMP’S VIEWS ON ABORTION

THE BIBLE ON ABORTION

WHAT IS AN ABORTION

■Abortion Pill Method

■In-Clinic Abortion

■Feeling after Abortion

SPONTANEOUS ABORTION, IN SELF-DEFENCE

■A Pregnancy That Threatens the Mother’s Life or Health

MISCARRIAGE AND SPONTANEOUS ABORTION

■Should a Child Who Might Be Born Deformed or Disabled Be Aborted?

■Should a Child Conceived as a Result of Rape or Incest Be Aborted?

■A Prayer of Repentance: How We Should Pray for Forgiveness

■Do You Call God a Liar? (1 John 1:9–10)

■The Test of Knowing Christ

■Who Is Responsible for Life and Death? (Exod. 20:1–17)

■Choose Life and Joy Abundantly (Deut. 30:19–20)

■The Body Is the Temple of GOD

CHRISTIANITY AND CATHOLIC CHURCH ON ABORTION

ABORTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING AN ABORTION, BEWARE!

AFTER ABORTION EFFECTS

EXAMPLE OF ABORTION LAWS – ABORTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

■South African Bill of Rights and Constitution

■South African Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act

■Constitutional Issues

■End of Legal Subjectivity According to South African Law

LEGAL POSITION ON ABORTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

CHAPTER 8

RAPE AND STATUTORY RAPE

INTRODUCTION

STATUTORY RAPE IN SOUTH AFRICA

UNBORN CHILD, ‘MEDICAL WASTE’

FINAL JUDGEMENT

DAUGHTER’S BIRTH DEFECTS AND FEBRILE CONVULSIONS

■Our Baby Daughter Diagnosed with Chronic Colic

■Febrile Convulsion and Bipolar Disorder

■Dangerous Gardens

A FATHER’S TALE, THE BEGINNING OF SADNESS

ANALOGY OF A BICYCLE, THE WHEELS CAME OFF

ANGEL OF DARKNESS, THE DEVIL COMES TO STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY

HARSH REALITY: AN UNPLANNED, UNWANTED CHILD

SURVIVING A RAPE CASE, A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

MY ELDEST DAUGHTER PASSED ON TO MEET HER CREATOR

ANOTHER TRAGEDY: WIFE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER

SIGNIFICANCE OF STARS: A STAR IS BORN

DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? GOD’S VICTORY!

THE AFTERMATH, AFTER-EFFECTS OF THIS SIGNIFICANT UNPLEASANT EVENT

THE EVIL WOMAN

■Stubbornness of Men

■The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast

■The Judgement of the Evil Woman Announced

EXPOSE THE ANTICHRIST

■Who Is the Antichrist?

■The Prince of Darkness

■Monopolistic Corporate Giants, Excessive Control

■Eye of Providence

■The God of This World

■Powers and Principalities

■CONCLUSION

CHAPTER 9

THE LIFE OF JESUS, GOD’S GRACE AND FORGIVENESS

SALT OF THE EARTH

DOOMSDAY CLOCK STATEMENT

THE NEW BIRTH

HUMANITY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL ON EARTH – THE LEGACY OF JESUS LIVES ON

END TIMES PROPHECY

CROSS tHE SYMBOL OF HOPE, FOLLOW JESUS

GOD’S FORGIVENESS AND GRACE

CHRIST WILL REMOVE THE CHURCH BEFORE THE GREAT TRIBULATION

RULE OF THE ANTICHRIST

■The Beast from the Sea

■The Antichrist, the Man of Lawlessness

CONCLUSION

PARABLE – LUKE 10:25–37

MORE PARABLES – LUKE 18

Doomsday Clock, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

DOOMSDAY CLOCK – LATEST UPDATE (28 JANUARY 2020)

About the Author

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

UNSUNG HEROES

This book is dedicated to my wife, Charlotte, who passed away on Friday night 21h40 on 4 June 2010, a week before the start of the FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa.

Cause of death, according to the state death certificate notes, she died from ‘natural causes’, which is totally misleading. She struggled with breast cancer for many years. Charlotte refused to let doctors remove her breast, the pride of any woman, the breasts used to feed their small babies.

After her death, I discovered a signed agreement between her and a USA pharmaceutical company in a file at the back of her wardrobe. This agreement permitted the company to test a new chemotherapy, for the sake of helping other women around the world who suffer from the same disease, breast cancer. At the time, her doctor did not believe that the chemotherapy will kill her. However, the real cause of death as officially stated on the oncologist report is ‘Toxic Chemotherapy’. Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease by the use of chemical substances, especially the treatment of cancer by cytotoxic and other drugs. According to legal advice, signing an agreement with a pharmaceutical company to test a new chemotherapy does not permit that company to kill somebody.

The main objective with the book is to get the reader to reflect on history, understand where we came from, why we are placed on earth, and what God’s purpose is for our lives. The book’s targeted audiences are mature men and women, and young adults who are above 15 years of age, to teach them basic biblical values, with the aim to prepare and equip themselves psychologically in life against the attacks of the devil (evil). Pregnancy, human development, abortions, and God’s Love, Grace and Forgiveness are the main themes discussed in the book for both women and men to understand that abortions are a deadly sin punishable with eternal death and know that only God can give and take life.

The notion that abortions are a deadly sin, in other words, viewed by God the same way as murder, are supported by biblical scripture and a real-life event that played off two o’clock in the morning during the last week of May 2010 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Little Company of Mary’s Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, when God miraculously brought my wife, Charlotte, out of a coma for three days long. In a coma, meaning her body was in an unresponsive state, a state of deep unconsciousness where she was not able to use any of her senses, such as responding to voices or being touched. Charlotte was regarded as alive, however, her brain functioned with very limited activity. She eventually slipped back into a coma after she was borrowed to us for 3 days by God, and then later passed away to meet her Creator. She did not return into a coma before she delivered God’s message to me, forcing me to promise God that I will spread God’s message to the world that abortions are murder and a deadly sin punishable with eternal death and that only God can give and take life.

A promise made is a promise to keep. With this book, I fulfil that promise more than nine years later after working almost seven years in Saudi Arabia as a cost engineer, eventually forced and led by God to speak the TRUTH.

The truth. And only the truth.

The last chapter in the book focuses on God’s love, grace, and forgiveness, His love and caring for humans, so much so that he let his only begotten Son Jesus be crucified on the Cross of Calvary for your and my sin. His love, grace, and forgiveness are in abundance if you repent your sins and do like Jesus told the prostitute to do, ‘Go and do sin no more’. Follow Jesus and do God’s will for your life.

Only the ONE acknowledgement, to God who created me to his image, and Jesus Christ who was crucified on the Cross of Calvary for your and my sin, the Light in a dark world of evil conspiracies. Thanks to God for the Life he allowed me to live, although I sometimes had to travel on a rough-and-tumble road that led to destruction, His bright shining Light was always visible in my life. He guided and protected me for a reason, the start of a new journey honouring his Name and doing his will for my life. He allowed me to travel the globe, meeting many people, different people as far as race, gender, language, age, religion, and culture is concerned, which gave me a far better understanding of God’s Creation and his will for a world in doubt and turmoil.

INTRODUCTION

EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO LIFE, EVEN THE UNBORN IN THE MOTHER’S WOMB

The so-called nasciturus fiction refers to the legal principle in which foetuses if subsequently born alive will acquire all of the rights of born children whenever this is to its advantage. It is not only about the right of the woman, but predominantly about the right of the child, the unborn fruit, innocent and helpless to defend himself or herself.

When life begins according to a BBC guide titled ‘Ethics – Abortion: When Is the Foetus Alive?’ (www.bbc.com > child > alive_1), the BBC has a guide on the different stages of pregnancy, where life could be interpreted as beginning: including when the foetus first moves, when the brain is fully developed, or when the foetus reaches viability. Viable when the foetus can survive outside the mother’s womb? Ultimately, according to the BBC guide, there is no agreement in medicine, philosophy, or theology as to what stage of foetal development should be associated with the right to life. The idea that there is a precise moment when a foetus gets the right to live, which it didn’t have a few moments earlier, feels very strange.

As a matter of practicality, many abortion laws lay down a stage of pregnancy after which abortions is unlawful because the foetus has a right to life, and the dates chosen are usually based on viability.

Nonetheless, like most assumptions and laws, humanistic views are far from God’s Word, tHE only tRUTH in a totally confused world.

What is the difference between true and false? It is humanly difficult to distinguish between the two concepts. Anyway, in today’s world, a lot of stuff are humanly fake and simply not true. Humans are daily bombarded with fake news and fake marketing. Brainwashed, daily pressured into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means to unproperly influence human beings, for example, extreme religious values, media, marketing advertising, and other means to constantly create perceived value at inflationary or unaffordable cost. Fake marketing constantly invading human’s minds and privacies, referring for instance to advertising on television, internet, other media, and sometimes on a one-on-one front. Fake hopes and an intense desire created to win against all odds, for instance, competitions, lotteries, and gambling. Fake movies, fake and corrupt sport with reference to the highest soccer governing body’s fraud and corruption scandals and cricket match fixings. Fake moments of high expectations, a sudden vibe like a flash in the pan and then gone, a moment of happiness that is short-lived. The human brain and heart are constantly infiltrated by junk, a system of which we are all an integral part of, which we as human beings, individually and collectively, have created ourselves. The falsehood from and in this world call it the name it deserves, the spirit of the Antichrist.

On the contrary, Jesus God, a symbol of LOVE, CARING, HOPE, and PEACE, ensuring SHORT-, MEDIUM-, AND LONG-TERM PROSPERITY, our only guarantee for eternal life in heaven, in the ever presence of GOD himself. A very simple choice. A choice between RIGHT and wrong, between LIGHT and darkness. Choose RIGHT, choose LIGHT in an ever-dark world filled with evil hearts and minds. What goes in must come out. Bad that goes in can eventually lead to compulsive, impulsive human behaviour. One just needs to look around the world and see the destruction of the family fabric. Divorces, adultery, diseases, poverty, conflicts, protests, global warming, and natural disasters are some of the disastrous events that are blooming in today’s world we have coherently created. All the consequences of sin against ALMIGHTY GOD and HIS CREATION.

At the heart of the self-destruction mission is greed, lust, fraud, and corruption. Self-destruction caused by those who are supposed to lead by example, by shaping an environment of love, tolerance, peace, respect, trust, and stability for the common good and common wealth of all people and all nations, an environment in which we as human beings can strive and thrive. Those dangerous corrupt and fraudulent politicians and leadership, or people in positions of influence, supposed to protect civilisation from distinction. Not only those people misusing power, but also those who are not performing their duties as they should do, sometimes doing nothing, but instead of getting fairly rewarded for fair efforts, they still get rewarded for doing little or nothing. A biblical principle of ‘REWARDS FOR EFFORTS’, explained through the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14–30 from the Word of God.

‘A fish rots from the head down’ politicians and leadership are the root cause of an organisation’s or system’s failure and demise. This is true whether that organisation is a country, a company, a government, the United Nations, or the world at large. A leadership that lacks the most important value of honesty, trust, respect, and fairness, grouped under one concept: ‘INTEGRITY’. Integrity comprises all values.

The Word of God speaks of only two paths, the path of right and the path of wrong, the one that leads to heaven and the other one that leads straight through the gates of hell into the pit of hell, an extremely unpleasant, boring, and depressing place. Hell is the absolute worst place to be, in an ever-burning hell of fire. It is all about choices in life; you and only you are in control of your decisions. Only you can make a difference. Important to always operate between two borders, one of Reasonableness and the other of Fairness. One earns trust and respect, and trust and respect does not come free. Money cannot buy trust and respect. In short, the world is rapidly moving on a path of self-destruction because of a lack of knowledge. Who suffers the most? Innocent children, elderly, and women are the ones that suffer the most. Men are constantly engaged in conflicts and wars, men who likes to create and fight their own wars, with little or no guilty conscience. An attitude of ‘Cowboys do not cry!’, tough-minded attitudes and responses. Sadly, many women demonstrate similar behaviour as men do on battlefields; they became tough-minded with no guilty conscience.

Call it the ‘The Killing Field’, allowing the killing of innocent babies in the wombs of their mothers. Sadly, the World Health Organisation recommends safe and legal abortions be available to all women. Around 56 million abortions are performed each year in the world, with about 45 per cent done unsafely. More unborn babies died in the wombs of their mothers than people killed in Word War 1 and 2 combined. A disgrace and dishonour to God and his Creation. Politicians and organisations should focus on education and improvement of quality of life, a basic human necessity and a human right, ‘Proactive Risk rather than Reactive Crisis Management’. Negotiate and implement measures to prevent fraud and corruption globally and spend less on warfare apparatus. It requires value-driven solutions through extensive negotiation efforts—‘glocally, think globally and act locally’. Women are the biggest conspirators of abortions, in fact, the root cause and effect. They indulged with their man in sexual behaviour without thinking about the consequences, no guilt at all. After an abortion, women later carry on with their lives as if nothing happened, and the man walks away a free man, not taking up his responsibility and accountability as a prospective father, a real man. The Bible calls this compilation of evil, LUST. Lust, the mother of all evils.

Although there are geishas who make their living by selling themselves, there is no need for a geisha to stoop to that. Stoop meaning lower one’s moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible. Instead of reprehensible, deplorable, or disgraceful, rather be the opposite: be priestly and praiseworthy.

Therefore, let us make sure that the soil of our figurative heart never becomes hard, shallow, or overgrown but remains soft and deep. Numerous recent studies have indicated that there is an increased level of altruism among the religious. Altruism meaning more ordinary people choose to work with selfless concern for the well-being of others, behaviour to benefit another at one’s own expense. If that is indeed the case, we all have a responsibility to work together in order to prevent abortions, the killing of innocent unborn babies in the wombs of their mothers. Love God and love your neighbour as God commanded us to do.

Above are also true when it comes to the slaughtering of innocent babies in the wombs of their mothers. Love and honour the unborn babies in wombs of mothers; they are God’s Creation. Only God can give and take life. The same cold, heartless attitude towards abortions exists; women selfishly act the same way men do. The KILLING FIELDS, except that the innocent has no means of protection and self-defence, just when it seems to be safe and protected in the mother’s womb. On their foreheads automatically printed ‘INNOCENT’. A ‘NOT GUILTY PLEA’, no one to represent their case over proceedings. A ‘So what’ attitude by the real guilty parties; why care anyway? Well, God does care, and he is terribly upset. Do humans realise how God can and will respond to these vicious atrocities against the core of his Creation? Doomsday prophesy a FINAL BIG BANG when all of humanity will disappear from the surface of the earth, either to HEAVEN or to hell. A WAKE-UP CALL, ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING CLEAR AND LOUD.

The only prevailing TRUTH through darkness is the Word of God. Most biologists coincidently agree with the biblical view on life and abortions, which will be discussed in the book.

A staunch warning to the conspirators of abortions: ‘THOU SHALT NOT KILL’ and ‘THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’. Two of the old Roman seven deadly sins, ‘LUST’ and ‘GREED’. The Word of God describes lust as a sin with horrible consequences, amongst other destroying the social fabric of marriages and families, with huge ramifications. Marriage is a sacred institution of God. Marriage and family are the foundation of society, that sacred bond between husband and wife that the devil aims to destroy.

When Moses read ‘the book of the covenant’ to Israel on the plain facing Mount Sinai, he did so in order that they would know their responsibilities before God and fulfil these. God’s Commandments and his rules, however, elevated the Law to a plane higher than that of human justice.

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The sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill. (Source: Unsplash.com, photo edited.)

CHAPTER 1

WHEN AND HOW LIFE STARTED AND

GOVERNMENT’S ROLE TO PROTECT LIFE

A BIBLICAL VIEW

In order to understand who we are and where we came from, it is important to go back to scripture in the Word of God, the book of Genesis. When and how life started on earth and what God intentions were when he originally created man and, later, the woman.

All scripture quotations in chapter 1 are from the Holy Bible, New International Version® (NIV). © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, by Biblica Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Genesis 2:4 and 2:7–9

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. ⁸ Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. ⁹ The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground-trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10–14

¹⁰ A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. ¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there. ¹³ The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15–17

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."’

After the Lord God formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky and brought them to the man (Adam) to name them, the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals, but for Adam, no suitable helper was found (Genesis 2:19–20).

The most exciting part, the marvel or WONDER of creation. Genesis 2:21 reads: ‘So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh’. Genesis 2:22 describes the continuation of the developing process: ‘Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man’.

And now for the most exciting part. Genesis 2:23: ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man’. Genesis 2:24: ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh’. Genesis 2:25: ‘Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame’ .

After Adam and Eve sinned, they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves, and they hid themselves from God. All Christians know what followed after this, and are welcome to read the book of Genesis in its entirely to understand where we came from and where sin originated. Back to basics, before we can move on and enjoy life to its fullest as God intended us to do. We are faced with the same challenges that Adam and Eve faced, about a choice between good and bad (evil) every day of life.

Adam and Eve were empowered by God to make their own decision, to choose between good and bad. Likewise, we are daily confronted to make our own decisions for good or for bad. Both have consequences, good or bad consequences. We as human beings ultimately remain individually and collectively in control of our decisions. We cannot decide on each other’s behalf; my plea to you this very early morning while writing chapter 1 of the book is to choose good and reject bad (evil), choose eternal life opposed to eternal death.

The wages of sin is death. The wages of doing good according to God’s will, your just reward is an ETERNAL LIFE in the Kingdom of Heavens, God’s dwelling place where we will be reunited with Jesus, our Lord and saviour, to claim back our original inheritance.

Adam and Eve are the Bible’s first man and first woman. Adam’s name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, described as ‘mankind’. Important to note that angels, also the one who later became the dark angel of destruction, Satan the Devil, was created before God created earth and man. The RESISTER, the one who started and led the rebellion against God. God does not tolerate rebellion. In a chapter later in the book, you will learn how God dealt and will in the future deal with Satan, the rebel of rebels, the destructor of lives, including the killing of innocent babies in the womb of mothers. The devil is leading the process of destroying families and the killing of INNOCENT babies, just as innocent as JESUS was when he sacrificed his life for us on the Cross of Calvary. How do churches react to these atrocities against God’s creation? Alarmingly, you hardly hear pastors or messengers of God preaching about these topics anymore. Topics that should be the main theme of preaching and discussion in this