Purdue: Boiling up Controversy

Tuesday, October 1 was our first day on campus at Purdue University. It was great to see many of my friends from the church there who I have gotten to know over the years from summer leadership trainings and church conferences we've attended together. Because the area on campus where Tom always preached in the past was already reserved by a different group that week, we set up shop in front of what turned out to be the biology building. Incidentally, our displays for day 1 are about creation/evolution and attract many science majors who have questions about proof for a God through science. This day was no different, and by the afternoon a crowd had gathered around Tom as he preached and shared what the Bible has to say about an Intelligent Creator. One of the banners discusses the similarities between Hitler's Holocaust and the genocide of aborted babies taking place now in the U.S.

One student, who I'll call John, insisted that as long as 'the fetus' stays in the mother's body, the mother can decide whatever she wants to do with 'it;' that it is a part of her own body, and not a human until it leaves the mother's body. The fact that a baby inside it's mothers womb has it's own heartbeat by the time the mother typically even realizes she is pregnant, did not make John budge. The fact that the baby has it's own unique DNA, separate from the mother's, did not stop him from arguing that the fetus does not become a person with the right to life until after it had been born into the world. Sadly, John's view is predominantly wide-held on college campuses all over the US as well as around the world. This belief being so widespread does not stop it from being wrong. Exodus 20:13 still says, "Do not murder." This is a moral law that does not ever change, regardless of the whims of a society at any given time. Murder is evil. Murder is a sin, and those who commit it will be punished by a God who demands justice. Unfortunately, many people, young and old, are in for a rude awakening not far off in the future. Either God is dead, or He is very much alive.