Is God Pro Choice?

Is God Pro Choice?

3/10/14

This topic is a highly debated one and defines many people that walk among our soil today.  It is a topic that most churches and Christians shy away from and refuse to deal with the efforts of those who use this topic on a daily basis.  This phrase sparks anger, hatred and even violence in many hearts yet in the majority of the cases these outcries are for the wrong and incomplete reasons.  The word choice itself is controversial but a word that needs to be completely understood before lavishing in its results.  This word is a strong word that has everlasting effects upon those who use its contents.  The ultimate question that everyone involved with this word is if God is pro choice and if He is then what can I expect my choices to render in my life? 

God gave me this topic to write about some time ago and I have been doing a wonderful job at dragging my feet and avoiding writing about this potentially explosive article.  While the concept makes sense and if people take what the Bible says and think about what those words mean then they will understand what God is trying to show us.  The topic of choice is always a hot issue and for the most part presents a hard line that divides humanity and from all angles places us into the irreconcilable differences category of this separation status. This article has many personal obligations in my life in addition to what many might say when they read what God is saying to us. 

I urge the reader to understand the entire direction of this article before drawing any conclusions.  This topic and article might need to be read over a couple of times before any conclusions are made.  Please understand that this is a tough subject and one that God does want us to understand because it is imperative for Him to get His entire message and the importance of this message to a dying world.  As I stated above, God showed me this topic a while back but I have been lax in my responsibilities in completing it but now it is time for the world to understand God’s point of view on choice and how He feels about the word and its meaning.  One also remember that God is a complete God and that everything that He has ordained has a complete meaning no matter how or why the human decides proportionately define a term or word.

We first need to understand that the word choice is a final word and a decisive word that has consequences.  This is why it can be determined that whatever the choice may be, what happens next is usually a final result.  To what extent do we take this word and to what value do we place upon it?  If this word is used in order to terminate a pregnancy then the result is a final one, yet life and its future circumstances will still inhabit this individual at some point in time.  If a choice is made to go to war, eventually some sort of final result occurs and as in the example before the results of this choice are final as well and will last just as long.  The choice to buy a car and move to London, England positive one but one does not know what will become of that choice until days, weeks or years down the road.  It is plain to see that choices have consequences no matter what level of choice is made and we must understand that these results may seem adequate at the moment, but what long term effects will they have and have we thoroughly considered all of these options?

It is easy for humans to say that their choice is their choice and no one should have any say otherwise.  While this fact is true, one should remember that taking counsel with others before making a choice has always been a wise option and has provided many mistakes from being created.  This brings up which counsel to seek and can we even ask God about what He would do and if He would help us through this period in time.  Human counsel is just that, a flawed and limited knowledge that usually seeks a quick remedy with the least amount of pain possible.  But is this the correct choice and even though many humans would agree with this path is it the correct choice?  A true choice cannot be one of manipulation or setting an uncomfortable situation straight; this is a type of whimsical choice that solves an immediate problem with no change in the heart and this type of choice does not enlighten the person and heighten their awareness against this choice if this case ever arises again.

Many people do not even consider God as an option when hard decisions or major ones that they believe could condemn them in certain circles arise.  I am not going to make any specific cases in this article except for God’s.  I am going to use an example that I have used as a long term answer when some people have asked me about certain decisions in their life, I am also going to use a very personal choice that had huge affects upon my life and then I am going to focus upon how God views choice.  God is a final and complete God and His entire vocabulary ring loud and clear throughout eternity and one really needs to understand that God is the only true option when a person seeks help and refuge for a major choice in their lives.  How serious is God when it comes to choice, eternally serious.

There was a lady who graduated college with a business degree and as soon as her diploma was handed to her and the ceremonies completed a person approached her with a job offer that she could not refuse.  It was her dream job and it had the perfect benefit package that went along with it.  The only drawback to the job in her opinion was that the job required her to move to Seattle, Washington, and this lady really did not like the wet and cold weather but would overlook it in order to make amends.  The lady loved her job and excelled in her position and within a few years had climbed the corporate ladder enough to be over the department that she once worked within. Time marched along and after thirty five years of hard work she had the opportunity to retire at a young age and enjoyed her remaining days and passed away peacefully at a ripe old age.

This same lady in the same setting after graduation decided not to take the job in Seattle but took another job closer to her hometown.  It was a great job and the benefits were just as appealing and her life was a happy one.  She met a man who had been transferred to her company and they began dating.  The dating scene became serious and wedding bells were eventually heard throughout the town.  True happiness came a few years later when their first child was born and a son graced the world as a future heir to that specific name.  A phone call came one afternoon notifying her that there had been an accident and that her husband was involved in a fatal crash.  Her life was ruined and it seemed like the world was crumbling around her, but things were not all bad she still had her family and her son that would bring light to her as each future day passed into history.

This example occurs in our lives every day and leaves no one out of the patterns of life.  We have no idea what our choices will hold but we take charge of our lives and hope for the best.  The lady in this example had no idea what her life was going to hold and even though there may have been some regrets about her choices, she still had to live with the consequences of those choices.  This example explains that life has its consequences no matter what we choose to do and even these innate choices have serious results that we will have to deal with in time.  This lady had no idea of what her choices would produce but at the same time she hoped that everything would turn out for the best.

In November of 1967 a tiny boy came into the world that had a head full of black hair and was small enough to fit into a dresser drawer until a crib was bought.  While there were millions of little boys born on the 23^rd of November 1967 it was one boy in particular that I am going to use in this example; that boy is me.  Most of you know that I was adopted shortly after my birth and I have enjoyed a wonderful life with the only parents that I have ever known.  My parents were open and honest with me about my adoption and as I grew and became older they shared more information with me concerning this fact about my life.

My parents made an important choice when they adopted me because the result of this choice would change everything about their lives from that moment forward.  They have never regretted their decision and would do it all over again if the opportunity would appear.  But their choice was not the only one that was in play during that time for I had a birth mother who had to make certain choices in her life as well. While abortions were not legal in the 1960s the procedure was still available and could have been completed when she found out that she was pregnant.  The same lady had to make another choice when she said that she was permanently giving me up to another family.  Many choices had to be made in the heart of this lady and I thank God every day that she allowed me to live and to grow up and to know what life is all about.  I love my parents and would not trade them for anything either, but most of all I am so glad to have to opportunity to draw a breath and to witness the beauty of life itself.

I am going to add another example of choice into the mix and it is just as important as the ones that I have already shared.  When I was a kid I liked to watch a couple of television shows on Saturday evening.  One of these shows was called “Fantasy Island”.  Some of the plots within each show were probably not the best but each plot represented a desire or wishes of a specific person and they arrived on this island to fulfill this dream.  We all knew that some of these fantasies could never be accomplished in real life but on the off chance that something similar to them did cross the minds of those who watched the show.  The catch to the show was that the one who wanted to fulfill this exotic or whimsical choice of theirs had to live with the consequences of the outcome.  There was no guarantee that the results would be favorable but the chance to see what occurred was always present.  It was the choice and the result that the show focused on and how each would affect that individual’s life from that point onward.

All of the examples I have used so far have been choices that humans have made.  It is obvious that we make choices each second of our lives that can have some type of permanent result that lasts until we depart this world.  But what about God and the choices that He made. Yes, God made choices and proves the point that God is pro choice.  Now, before the uproar begins let me say that the reader should continue their reading of this article and with the best of their ability not to close their minds and their hearts to the truth about this topic.  I understand that some may not like that answer and totally ignore the rest of this article and that choice is very wrong.  I also understand that some will take what I just said and run with it to prove that God is on their side of certain issues and that choice is just as wrong as the opposite view.  There is an important truth here that everyone needs to keep in mind and this truth represents the definition of this word and what it means to our lives, both physical and spiritual.

The Bible tells us that we have an enemy, and it is the job of our enemy to do his best to destroy us in every capacity.  The Bible also tells us that this eternal and immortal enemy was not always our enemy.  A very long time ago there was an angel named Lucifer.  This angel was the highest ranking angel that God had ever created.  He was very beautiful and was in charge of the music that flowed in and out of heaven.  Lucifer was a created being from a complete Creator who loved life.  We have to understand that spirit beings are eternal and really do not understand the concept of time, so it is humanly impossible to actually comprehend when Lucifer was created or how much time passed before the day of his fateful choice.

I have stated many times in my past articles that God is a complete God and that He leaves no stone unturned when He completes a process.  When God created the angels his plan for humanity was already in place so in order for Him to be complete and true in every aspect He had to keep in line with what He had established within His heart.  God gave the angels a choice to serve Him or to make another choice.  The Bible tells us that Lucifer wanted to be like God and wanted to have the opportunity to complete the things that God did, so God granted Lucifer this choice.  But while Lucifer was making this choice he knew that the consequences of this choice would be grave and after God sent him from his post, Lucifer vowed to take revenge against God in a specific manner sometime down the road.

When Lucifer made the choice to challenge God and since he was a created being his choice was permanent and could not be erased or changed.  It was permanent choice that had severe and eternal results.  This means that once Lucifer had set into motion his decision the process of that decision could not be changed or stopped.  The drive that Lucifer must have had to try and accomplish the exact same creations that God had perfectly created but have been unaccountable, yet God allowed this eternal being to have a choice in his eternity. The Bible also states that when Lucifer made his choice to challenge God and leave the host of angelic beings, that he took a third of the angels with him.  Now, if Lucifer had a choice or free will then that means that the other angels that went with Lucifer also had a free will. In other words, every angel or spirit being that God has created has free will and has the ability to make a choice, no matter what that choice might be.

So because our enemy had the opportunity to make the choice to challenge God that proves that long before mankind was created God was pro choice.  God created the ability for angels to make choices which in essence was a choice of God and if God practiced the concept of choice, we can honestly say that God is pro choice.  It is not questionable that God understands the results of the choices that His created beings make for as any father would act it must have broken His heart to witness millions or billions of His created beings rebel against His authority.  I have no idea how many angels fell with Lucifer but it is apparent that there were enough that the Bible gives an account of how many did choose to leave with Lucifer. 

It is hard for our finite minds to comprehend why any of them would choose to leave, but we do know that the event did happen and that they did leave sealing their eternal fate without any chance of change.  However, the process of making a choice is very familiar to our lives and what is amazing to me is that the initiation, execution and the results of Lucifer’s plan can be witnessed in our choices as well.  The process of wanting more or something different entered into the thought process of Lucifer.  That idea then developed into a process and a plan of action.  The plan was then executed in some manner and a result ensued after God allowed the plan to be experienced.  This is the result of a choice that a being made and it fits into our lives in the same order.

Eventually Satan came to the Garden of Eden and saw that it was inhabited by fleshy people.  They were different in the fact that they had both a physical body and a spirit within themselves.  A unique design but one that angered Satan ferociously and their entire meaning was a direct slap in the face to him.  It was his goal to prey upon God’s new creation and to prove that the humans could fall as well.  Satan knew that if God had instilled the power of choice within his life then God had no choice but to follow suit when creating mankind.  Satan was correct in this matter and it was not long afterwards that mankind made the choice to go it alone and to see what God had given to man.

God gave one law to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and we choose to disobey this law.  We can try to blame Satan or Eve but in reality it was the act of choice and the ability to choose that was given to us which led to our downfall, in short it was our choice.  See, when God does something He is very specific and very complete on all issues.  So, if He creates one thing a certain way He is therefore obligated to further create in the same manner.  When God gave the angels the ability to choose then He was obligated to give the same to humans.  However, with humans God decided to play a little trick on His enemy and changed up the order of creation a bit just to ensure that Satan’s status had no spiritual legal grounds for arguments and would allow us to have a personal choice to be eternally redeemed.

The actions of mankind in the Garden of Eden prove that God gave humans the ability to choose and this process we call freedom of choice is a process in which we thrive upon and use on a continual basis.  But with the example that God has set into motion concerning our creation, the process of choice still comes into play and the results that these choices play in our lives holds just as much eternal salvation and damnation as it did for our immortal enemy.  It is this fact that people tend to forget and then allow our enemy to pounce upon the results after we have made a certain or specific choice.

Given the truth about the results of Lucifer’s choice and what the Bible says about that entire scene, then it would be safe to say that our choices will have the same results on our lives as well.  The only difference is that because of the way God created us we have an opportunity to be forgiven of the choices that we have made and to begin again within the guidelines and laws of God.  It is the job of our enemy to make sure that we do not understand God’s ways and to thoroughly discredit God that our choices actually have any root in our future.  Our enemy takes joy in the fact that we have the opportunity to make a choice but what he leaves out are the consequences that might come about after we make that choice.  Our enemy does not care anything about what happens to us after the choice is made, all he is concerned with is for us to separate ourselves from God far enough that we lose all trust and truth in our Creator.

The concept and truth about choice is a huge asset that we have and if used properly and in a godly manner it is one of the best gifts that man can harbor.  But choice is so seldom used in this capacity but is thrown around as a scapegoat and a cover to hide our own actions. It has become a popular stance to say that one is pro choice and everyone has this ability within them but when a choice is used for political gains or in such a way that it serves as a platform for a personal action, it becomes a death sentence to us from the One who gave us that ability from our beginnings.  A choice will present itself in many circumstances and many times we may not have the time to think about the decision that has to be made.  But if we have thoroughly studied the One who has given us this option and understand His ways then we can base our immediate and long term choices upon His ways.  God shall always choose life no matter what the question or conditions may offer.  It is mankind who chooses other than life and even though it is embedded within us to choose, we must not take the decisions lightly or use them carelessly in order to obtain a quick fix to an uncertain present situation.

In keeping with the choices of man and the response that we force God to undertake, reread the stories within the Bible or any other story in history and apply the outcomes of each story with the complete stance of choice.  Napoleon chose to attack Russia in the winter, and he failed miserably taking thousands of lives to their deaths even before the fighting began.  The Catholic Church fought enough amongst themselves that they actually broke apart into two sections, totally based upon the way man chose to think about God’s representation on earth.  A couple just had a beautiful baby girl that was born over the weekend and this new life has brought so much joy to that entire family.

God has granted us the ability to choose and we must remain in the pro choice category for if we did not then we would give up a basic element of our existence.  God shall always choose life and everything choice that He has ever made proves His choice.  God is happy with your life and He may be disappointed in some of the choices that we make but He never gives up and hopes that we fully understand His ways and that one day we honestly give Him a chance to operate with His laws in place within our lives.

All of the examples and the details that I have given in this article point out a logical and truth that we need to understand.  God is pro choice but He is chooses life for everyone and every creation that is His.  Not everyone will agree with this fact and I know that some will continue to harbor their own selfish means.  God accepts this for it is your choice and He accepts the choices that you make each day but He also wants you to understand that He loves you and He placed this ability within us so that we may choose Him and leave the world alone.  The king of the world cares nothing about you and wants to see your life destroyed, but this too is your choice.  Everything in this world is temporary and the things in it will come and go.  But God is everlasting, complete and faithful in all of His ways and He shall never change from choosing life.

What does this mean to our lives?  It means that God will accept the fact that He has installed into us free will which means we are free to make the choices that we deem necessary.  God is not the type of person who wants to rule our lives with a heavy hand, unlike what the world has to offer.  This also means that God will allow us to make our choices and then have to live with whatever consequences those choices may bring into our lives.  God also will allow these choices to establish a pattern within our society and to accept them for what they represent in truth, not through superficial and emotional benefit.  Everything that we choose to make in our lives that go against God’s Laws God will allow continuing.  It is not because He does not care but because He wants us to make the choice to choose Him.

To be complete God will allow these acts to continue and as long as our choices include God within our choices, God has promised to protect His people.  However, we all understand that as we continue to pursue humanity rather than God our choices become more selfish and quick tempered which is baseless according to God’s laws.  As stated before God is a complete God and will allow this action to continue but only up to a point.  For God sees the heart and He recognizes the desires of the heart of the society as well and it is at this point when warnings are given.  Our choices do matter but in truth they are ours to make.  It is also God’s to make as well so we need to keep this concept in mind when the world begins to fall apart, so that we will understand exactly who is to blame.  God loves each one of us and He does not wish to see any harm come to any of His children but our choices must be in line with God and His ways or we are placing ourselves into a situational demise that all of us will witness.  Remember God shall never make a choice in anger nor will He ever choose death over life.  But His ways are holy in every way and those ways must be kept or we that deviate from that path shall see turmoil like we have never known before.

So according to God’s Word God is pro choice but also recognize that God’s choices shall never harm the human nor will they bring pain upon His created beings and His choices shall always promote and side with life.  When someone comes up to you and asks if you are pro choice or pro life you can honestly say, yes to both.  And of course this will confuse them or even upset them a little but it sure does open up the opportunity to share the gospel with that person or group and that is what we are supposed to do in the first place.  Think about this topic and take it to heart.  God loves you and wants us to live in eternal life and happiness.

DLB