Imagine a World without Christianity

Christianity’s Impact on the Value of Human Life

I. The Value of Human Life

1. Countering the Depravity of Infanticide

Matthew 19:14 “Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

2. Countering the Depravity of Abandoning Infants

3. Countering the Depravity of Abortion

“My Hope is that these Planned Parenthood video will cause people to talk about the violence of abortion. A Pro-Life witness is a witness that speaks both to God’s justice and justification.” –Russell Moore

4. Countering the Depravity of The Gladiators

II. The Voices of Those Who Devalue Human Life (Romans

1:18-25)

“Mankind is the product of chance and evolution”

Charles Darwin

“The God of the deserts, that crazed,

stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his powers

to make laws!”

Adolf Hitler

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no Father, faith in God is a mark of weakness, every person can define their own morality”

“an opiate of the masses, a tool of exploitation”

Karl Marx

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”

Renatus Voltaire

“Human potential must replace God by the year 2000”

Gloria Steinem

“I say quite deliberately

that the Christian

religion, as organized in its churches, has been and

still is the principal enemy of

moral progress in the world.”

Bertrand Russell

“A God without wrath brought men without sin

into a kingdom without

judgment through the ministrations

of a Christ without a cross.”

H. Richard Neibuhr

III. The Virtue of Human Life (Genesis 1:26)

Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

“Nearly all that we call human history…[is] the long terrible story

of man trying to find something other than God which will make

him happy.”--C. S. Lewis