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    'I'm a Pro-Choice Pastor,' Raphael Warnock Says, Sparking Pro-Life Pushback

    Georgia minister and U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock sparked a cultural and social media debate this week about Christianity and the unborn when he called himself a "pro-choice pastor" and said he will fight to keep abortion legal.

    Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is the Democratic candidate in the Jan. 5 runoff against U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican.

    "I'm a pro-choice pastor, and I believe that a hospital room is way too small for a woman, her doctor, and the United States government," Warnock wrote in a social media post for Facebook and Twitter.

    The posts launched an impassioned debate on Facebook and Twitter about religion and abortion.

    Lila Rose, president of the pro-life organization Live Action, quoted one of his posts and tweeted, "Murdering a child is the antithesis of justice. How dare you claim the name of Christ while you advocate for the 'right' to slaughter His children, made in His image. Your words are Satanic."

    Christian singer Danny Gokey tweeted in response to Warnock, "Killing boys & girls in the womb is not a brave or heroic act like the left loves to portray. Everyone of us needed someone to fend & fight for us when we couldn't defend ourselves. Most confusingly – abortion has murdered millions of woman & blacks – The ones they say they fight for."

    Benjamin Watson, a pro-life advocate and a former NFL player, tweeted, "Pastor, Equal access to kill a son or daughter is NOT justice. JUSTICE is the equitable distribution of punishment AND protection. JUSTICE is rooted in the dignity of every human endowed by their Creator. One cannot truly fight for JUSTICE while simultaneously denying it."

    Loeffler, who is pro-life, retweeted Watson's tweet. Loeffler wrote in her own tweet, "Your version of 'justice' is using the Bible to justify killing innocent babies. My version of justice is protecting innocent life and the most vulnerable among us."

    Some, though, supported Warnock's comments.

    "I am an Episcopalian and my spouse is an Episcopal priest," one person tweeted. "We stand with you and are supporting your campaign with both prayer and funds. God bless you!"

    It wasn't the first time Warnock implied the Bible supports abortion. In August, he was asked by a radio host how the pro-choice views of the Democrat Party align with his faith.

    "I believe unequivocally in a woman's right to choose, and that the decision is something that we don't want government engaged in – that's between her and her doctor and her minister," Warnock answered. "... "I've been focused on women's health, women's choice, reproductive justice. That is consistent with my view as a Christian minister. And I will fight for it."

    'I'm a Pro-Choice Pastor,' Raphael Warnock Says, Sparking Pro-Life Pushback - Michael Foust

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    "I believe unequivocally in a woman's right to choose"

    ​But not obviously in God's right to choose what is right and wrong.

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    Everyone who names the name of Christ is obviously not a true Christian

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    It would be far better for the religious to not have mentioned they go to church or pastor a church in their believing killing babies is defendable. What they casually flaunt will become a millstone on Judgment Day.

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    I am also pro choice. I believe that everyone should choose Jesus instead of just pretending to be Christians.

    As far as being able to "choose" to shed innocent blood by killing babies, that is a fast ticket to the depths of Hell. That pastor needs to REPENT. He needs to get saved. Born again. He does not offer eternal life to his congregation by preaching murder as a choice. The Word of God clearly states that murderers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the Lord.

    Jeremiah 23 says it all. My heart cries out with Jeremiah:

    "My heart within me is broken
    Because of the prophets;
    All my bones shake.
    I am like a drunken man,
    And like a man whom wine has overcome,
    Because of the Lord,
    And because of His holy words.
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    For the land is full of adulterers;
    For because of a curse the land mourns.
    The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
    Their course of life is evil,
    And their might is not right.

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    "For both prophet and priest are profane;
    Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the Lord.
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    "Therefore their way shall be to them
    Like slippery ways;
    In the darkness they shall be driven on
    And fall in them;
    For I will bring disaster on them,
    The year of their punishment," says the Lord.
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    "And I have seen [e]folly in the prophets of Samaria:
    They prophesied by Baal
    And caused My people Israel to err.
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    Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
    They commit adultery and walk in lies;
    They also strengthen the hands of evildoers,
    So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
    All of them are like Sodom to Me,
    And her inhabitants like Gomorrah."


    "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
    I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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    But if they had stood in My counsel,
    And had caused My people to hear My words,
    Then they would have turned them from their evil way
    And from the evil of their doings."

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    Reportedly from Martyn Lloyd-Jones (see 5,000 Pages on Romans by “The Doctor” - CultureWatch and another post)

    "If you are only a moralist and not a Christian, you will not be 'abhorring' evil. There is only one thing that can ever make you 'abhor that which is evil', and that is a positive love for God. You will never understand the nature of evil until you understand something of the doctrine of the holiness of God, for evil is the opposite of that."

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