The Bible supports the pro-life cause.

I thank Con for the time in putting his rebuttal together.Premise 1Con does not contest this point, so there is nothing more to say. Con is correct in that all means all.Premise 2Con seems to be confusing physical punishment with spiritual punishment. There are no innocents in God's eyes in the spiritual sense. We have all sinned and so we are all deserving of death. But not everything is punishable by death. When an abortion is performed, it is performed on an innocent human who is innocent of any wrongdoing. As I explained in my case, we are told not to murder (which is to kill in cold blood). Therefore abortion is not permitted Biblically because the unborn has done no deed deserving of being killed.Con is correct in quoting the verse in Romans which shows that we all die because we all sin. We are all sinners and therefore, at the end of our lives we all must die. But this is a natural death, which is why we call it "natural causes." Because people die of natural causes does not give us grounds to kill someone intentionally.We are all made in God's image, and God has told us not to shed innocent blood. The reason that we have courts is because when someone wrongs us, the courts step in to force the offender to make restitution. But none of us are spiritually innocent, which is why God is justified in judging humans.In short, Con is equivocating on the term "innocent." In my argument, I am referring to the fact that the unborn have committed no act worthy of being killed. We are all made in God's image. I can't kill an adult who has done no wrong against me deserving of death, neither can I kill a toddler, neither can I kill the unborn.Now unfortunately Con commits a common error, in that he takes Bible verses out of context in order to show his point. In fact, the verses he counts works against his case, because they are cases of spiritual judgement, not physical judgement. They are being punished for their idolatry and other sins, and God is exacting judgement on them. It is important to remember that God is the giver of life, so only he has the right to take it away. If God kils someone, that does not give us, his creation, the right to kill, as well. I will briefly examine the verses in question:Exodus 12:29 -- This was divine judgement over the Egyptians. It should also be noted that Israelite children were spared. The Egyptians were punished with the death of their firstborn because Pharaoh would not let his people go out of captivity. He was keeping them as unwilling slaves, which was expressly forbidden in Scripture. [1] Pharaoh had nine other chances to let their people go, but refused. So this was a last resort by God (and Pharaoh still went after them, even after this happened).Numbers 31:17 -- This is a perfect example of the fact that just because the Bible shows it does not mean it condones it. God did not tell anyone to keep the virgins for themselves. This was Moses speaking. God would not have condoned this.Deuteronomy 2:33-34/1 Samuel 15:3, 7-8 -- God sanctioned wars in the Old Testament as means of divine judgement. The nations were guilty of idolatry and following other gods, which was detestable to God because he created them. For someone to follow other gods rather than the one who created them is very much a heinous act to God.None of these verses prove Con's case; just the opposite.Premise 3I have already shown why Con's reasoning is flawed regarding the unborn being innocent. They are innocent of any wrongdoing deserving of death. Since we are told not to murder, and we are made in God's image (as Con conceded), then we are not to kill the unborn, who are also humans made in God's image. You'll never find the word "fetus" or "embryo" in the Bible. That's because there was no word for fetus of embryo in Biblical Hebrew or Greek. The Hebrew word yeled is typically used of children outside the womb, but in Exodus 21:22 and Genesis 25:22 (the plural form), the same word is used of children inside the womb. Additionally, the Greek word brephos refers to the children killed at Pharaoh's command in Acts 7:19, but it is also used of the preborn John the Baptist in Luke 1: 41 and 44. The Bible does, in fact, consider unborn children to be human.Finally, Con's "more humane" (if abortion can be considered that) method of abortion is still murder. To remove an unborn human from the only habitat in which it can survive is still murder, as surely as kidnapping someone and dropping them, naked, in the middle of Antarctica.My argument has been sustained and is surely a sound argument.Con's ArgumentI'm unsure if Con was merely sourcing from Evil Bible or made arguments from it. But if he wanted more arguments from that website, I would ask he make them in the debate itself, since my debate is with Con and not with the internet.Numbers 5: 11-21 -- This was a curse instituted by God. This does not excuse us committing abortion. The reality is that children were considered a blessing to the Israelites. No woman would have ever dreamed about aborting her offspring because children were highly prized by Israelite women. That's why a woman becoming barren (such as through this curse) was considered a curse in the first place.As Matthew Henry has written, "This law would make the women of Israel watch against giving cause for suspicion. On the other hand, it would hinder the cruel treatment such suspicions might occasion. It would also hinder the guilty from escaping, and the innocent from coming under just suspicion. When no proof could be brought, the wife was called on to make this solemn appeal to a heart-searching God. No woman, if she were guilty, could say "Amen" to the adjuration, and drink the water after it, unless she disbelieved the truth of God, or defied his justice. The water is called the bitter water, because it caused the curse. Thus sin is called an evil and a bitter thing. Let all that meddle with forbidden pleasures, know that they will be bitterness in the latter end." [2]Numbers 31:17 -- I have already addressed this.Hosea 13:16 -- This was a prophecy. God was not saying that he will do these things, only that they will happen in the future. God will allow it because of their idolatry which, again, was heinous to God. 2 Kings 15:16 -- If we look at this in context, we see that Menahem killed the king of Israel and took his place, something God certainly wouldn't have condoned. Killing pregnant women was an act by Menahem, not sanctioned by God.Hosea 9:11-16 -- Hosea asks God to give them a miscarrying womb. Again, God is the giver of life and only he has the right to take it. God "giving a miscarrying womb" does not justify our committing abortions, anymore than God killing someone outside the womb justifies our killing someone outside the womb.As we see, taking verses out of context and twisting the Bible like a pretzel is par for the course when trying to support abortion. The Bible supports the pro-life case and does not support humans performing abortions.[1] Exodus 21:16.[2] http://www.christnotes.org...;