The Bible supports the pro-life cause.

Here we go. My opponent states, "Now, it's true that the Bible doesn't actually condemn abortion. But it's a fallacy to claim that whatever the Bible doesn't expressly condemn, it condones. " I am not insisting the bible supports 'Pro Choice. ' This may seem backdoor-tautological, but my only duty as Con is to reject the premise that the bible is 'Pro Life. ' The bible may support neither and there may be no express direction either way as my opponent has stated. I'm not arguing that the bible is 'Pro Choice,' I am simply arguing that it does not support the 'Pro Life' case. Now with that out of the way: I will first engage in rebuttal and then go on to present my own case. All Humans Are Made In God's Image This first point is true scripturally. I will not contest it, but it is the only point where my opponent and I find common ground. This is not a concession of argument, it simply suits my debate to also assert that all humans are made in God's Image. (1. Genesis 1:26) I will however add that under 'all' this includes rapists, serial killers, murderers, capital criminals and the rest. God hates the shedding of innocent blood of humans made in God's image. Firstly, Exodus is a book of Law. (. http://en.wikipedia.org...) And as a book of law in the source my opponent cites (6: Exodus 23:7) it is referring to a legal 'innocent' or 'honest one. ' It is addressing legality, not transcendent truth of human nature. The passage is saying to be honest in trial and not to falsely accuse or testify against one who is innocent of the crime. (. http://www.studylight.org...) Why is the distinction between 'innocent' and those 'innocent of a specific crime' important? Because the bible is clear that after the fall there are no transcendent innocents! "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. (Rom. 5:12). " All have sinned and fall short of the glory of god! (Romans 3:23) ALL! So this point my opponent tries to raise is a non-issue, as there are no innocents in God's eyes only in the eyes of human law (And human law allows abortion in many places). But if all are created in God's image and all have the same nature, then we can see that God clearly doesn't hate shedding the blood of 'innocent (no such thing)" humans in the verses bellow: And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. " (Exodus 12:29) Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. " (Numbers 31:17) "And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city we left none to remain:" (Deuteronomy 2:33-34) "This is what the LORD says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and a ss . .. .' And Saul . .. utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. "(1 Samuel 15:3,7-8) In these verses, God commands his people to commit genocide, to kill infants, and to rape virgins. He commands his people to destroy sons and daughters and to take the lives of the 'innocent (per my opponent's definition. )" We can clearly see that this negates my opponent's premise that God hates the shedding of innocent blood as long as we assume that God doesn't hate anything in accordance to his nature (a perfect being cannot hate himself) and that he cannot do anything that is not in accordance to his nature. He issues command to commit genocide and murder infants, so therefore it is not hateful to his perfect being to do such things. Abortion is the shedding of innocent blood of humans made in God's image. And here's the rub. My opponent asserts that abortion is the shedding of innocent blood of humans made in God's image. Firstly, my opponent is making a factual claim not founded in the bible that a fetus is human. And secondly he uses the term 'innocent' as an argument from pathos rather than biblical fact. So all I really have to say is that Abortion isn't the shedding of innocent blood of humans because there are no innocents and fetuses are not human beings. And as for my opponent's arguments concerning children: we have seen clearly that God orders the death and rape of children in the above verses. We also see that my opponent seamlessly slips from 'fetus' to 'child' quite easily--in doing this, he undermines his argument as I reject that notion that fetuses are 'children. ' And furthermore even if we were to accept this as true "If innocent unborn humans are killed, surely their blood are upon the hands of those who take their lives. " My opponent is presupposing a certain violent method of abortion. I say, why not just have the umbilical cord cut and the fetus removed from the mother's belly with gentle care. If the fetus can survive on its own, let it. My Arguments: NOT pro-life: (. http://www.evilbible.com...) Numbers 5:11-21 "here the priest is to put the woman under this curse —“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. This is an induced abortion to rid a woman of another man’s child and an entire ritual dedicated to abortion. “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every women that hath known man by lying with him. ” Women that might be pregnant should be murdered so as to kill those who are pregnant, aborting the fetus. Numbers 31:17 God speaks an oath determining to dash the infants of Samaria to pieces and the “their women with child shall be ripped up”. Hosea 13:16 God determines it just to let the pregnant women of Tappuah to be “ripped open”. 2 Kings 15:16 Hosea 9:11-16. “Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. " Hosea desires that the people of Ephraim can no longer have children. God makes all the unborn children miscarry. Is not terminating a pregnancy unnaturally “abortion”? This is an unpleasant business to be sure. But we can see that the biblical God is not averse to abortion, he allows and commands the death of children. Suppose you reject that. Suppose after I've provided all this evidence, you say that God is NOT in favor of abortion. Fine, say it even though you'd be wrong. But at least know that I have fulfilled my role as Con by making it clear that at least God is not exclusively supportive and the bible is not supportive of 'pro-life' doctrine.