Every person is to be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God – Romans 13:1 (NASB 2020)
When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. – Proverbs 29:2 (NIV)
Salt is a . It slows down
Whose policies will societal
(Jesus) You are the salt of the earth – Matthew 5:13 (NIV)
Florida Amendment 4, Right to Abortion Initiative (2024) Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion. No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion.
God made every person in
So God (Elohiym) created man (Adam) in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
– Genesis 1:27-28 (NASB)
What is man that You think of him, And a son of man that You are concerned about him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God (Elohiym), And You crown him with glory and majesty! You have him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put everything under his feet, – Psalms 8:4-6 (NASB)
Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.
– Genesis 9:6 (NASB)
…the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, who have been made in the likeness of God; – James 3:8-9 (NASB)
“Behold I am going to bring a disaster upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. Since they have abandoned Me and have made this place foreign, and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and since they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I did not command nor speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind;
– Jeremiah 19:3-5 (NASB)
On the Individual Level (Psalm 139:13-17)
God made every person in image
God is in every person (v.13)
Every person is by God with a (v.13)
Created (NIV, NAS), Formed (ESV) qânâ: create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase…by implication to own: — attain, buy (OTESD)
The LORD has made everything for its own purpose – Proverbs 16:4 (NASB)
A baby is the of God (v.14)
God has a for each (v.16)
Babies are on (v.17)
Fetus is Latin for “little one” (NIH)