Last Sunday morning at Redeemer I preached on the book of Jeremiah. In chapter one, verse four, we see the call of Jeremiah to be a prophet.
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Nested in these verses is a powerful anti-abortion statement. God says to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart."
God knew Jeremiah before Jeremiah knew God. Jeremiah was non-existent when God knew him and set him apart.
Biblically, the same can be said of you, and of me. David sings of this divine foreknowledge in Ps. 139.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
All the days set apart for you were known by God before one of them came to be.
God, as an all-knowing being, knows everything that can be known. God's omniscience includes knowledge of future contingent events. Such as the coming-into-being of you. As well as God's calling of you and setting-apart-for-His-purposes of you.
Abortion, therefore, is an anti-God act that comes against God's prior knowledge of, plans for, and calling upon a divine image-bearing life that God is knitting together.
