Tough Aspects of Our Faith<\/b><\/p>\n
I was reading This is The Faith<\/i><\/a> by Canon Francis Ripley. On page 82, in regard to the Fifth Commandment, it says:<\/p>\n Abortion,<\/b>which is willful murder committed before a child’s birth. Often disguised as “termination of pregnancy,”it deprives a child of heaven forever.<\/b>(emphasis added) It is punished by the Church by excommunication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Before I go on, let me add this disclosure, the purpose of this little blog isn’t to dispute whether or not unbaptised babies do or don’t get to heaven(EENS). Just to say I read this and thought “whoa”.<\/b><\/p>\n When I read this to my husband and later to my brother, they were both aghast. “I do not think God would deny little babies heaven when it is not their fault…” I am wondering if it may be dangerous to say otherwise. I mean we cannot begin to understand how far reaching the consequences of abortion is (or any sin for that matter). I think the point is it is prudent to weigh all the consequences of one’s actions before they take place, and to teach that this could be a very real consequence-not just the obvious consequence of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tough Aspects of Our Faith I was reading This is The Faith by Canon Francis Ripley. On page 82, in regard to the Fifth Commandment, it says: Abortion,which is willful murder committed before a child’s birth. Often disguised as “termination of pregnancy,”it deprives a child of heaven forever.(emphasis added) It is punished by the Church… Continue reading Tough Aspects of Our Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}