Falling

“Human life is not the way it’s supposed to be.”

“The glory of God’s good creation has not been obliterated by the tragedy of the fall, but it has been deeply shadowed by it.”

In Ch.3 of Plantinga’s book, he talks about the state of the world and of how the corruption of sin has deeply distorted the various functions and values of our society today. As I dwelt on this subject I immediately thought again of the discussion I had on abortion with my fellow classmates. We were discussing whether or not abortion should be made legal or not, and one point that was brought up was abortion should be illegal because it takes the lives of innocent children. However, because not everybody was “Christian” and did not all share the same morals or beliefs, those who were secular could still be given the option of aborting a child thus agreeing that abortion could be legal. I do not agree with this. I am guessing a distortion in human rights and the freedom to choose in today’s society has been confused with the Biblical standards of free will and rights. In today’s society, the rights of individual people have become confused with having a license to do whatever you want in self-centeredness. However, the Biblical view of freewill and equality was that of having the freedom to do what is right under the law of God(Plantinga, CH 2). We have not been given a license to engage in any act that may be convenient for us, for we must live according to God’s standards.

The reason I find this point so important is because living by God’s standards was the original plan for how all human beings were to live in the first place. Abortion should not be made legal not only because it takes the lives of the innocent way, but because it was never a part of our morality in the first place. When we defend this supposed “right” to choose on whether or not abortion should be made legal, we ignore the underlying fact that in this matter we were never given a choice by God in the first place, abortion is not an exception to God’s law on the basis that it takes away some peoples freedom of choice.  Remember, the way the world was originally supposed to be was a great world of God’s people. We’ve been corrupted, and we cannot now use our newly corrupted values to change the original morality which God has given us. We are God’s children, every single person, and that is our true identity, not the one we’ve made up for ourselves in this new society.