Dr. George Tiller, an infamous Wichita abortionist, was murdered at his church this morning, the AP reports.
Vigilantism has to be condemned in the strongest of terms. If the government decides that it is going to try and convict doctors for the murder of unborn children, that is completely different from someone taking the law into their own hands and murdering someone, no matter who the target.
The City of Wichita as much as it can needs to douse the public statements of the killer. If he were to claim the act as some sort of religious justice, everyone ought to be ready to repudiate him with Romans 12, Romans 13, Hebrews 10, and Deuteronomy 32. Vengeance is not a Jewish or Christian behavior. Murder cannot be the tool of those who seek to end abortion — it is the simplest of inconsistencies!
Who knows whether Tiller’s pastor would have gotten to him today, or the next Sunday, finally convincing him that Tiller’s practice was not only against his vocation and his Hippocratic oath to do no harm but against God’s Law. Tiller could have repented. He could have turned his talents to godly service. But no.
The Devil has more ammunition now, to cloud the minds of those who support grisly acts of violence in the womb and to steel those remaining abortionists from seeking forgiveness at the cross.
There is forgiveness to be had, for murderers, for abortionists, for the mother who terminates her pregnancy, for those who take RU-486 and “Plan B” in a deliberate attempt to miscarry, and for everyone else. No sin is too great or too many. The cross is bigger than your guilt. Repent, be forgiven, and be free to turn away from such behavior.
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Dan
“No sin is too great or too many. The cross is bigger than your guilt.”
Amen.
Well said.
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