RHBC 172: Christianity’s Impact on the Value of Human Life

1. Imagine a World without Christianity
Christianity’s Impact on the Value of
Human Life

2. 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.”

3. 2. Countering the Depravity of
Abandoning Infants

4. 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

5. 4. Countering the Depravity of The
Gladiators

6. II. The Voices of Those Who Devalue
Human Life (Romans 1:18-25)

7. “Mankind is the
product of chance
and evolution”
Charles Darwin

8. “The God of the deserts,
that crazed, stupid,
vengeful Asiatic despot with
his powers to make laws!”
Adolf Hitler

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

10. “an opiate of the masses, a
tool of exploitation”
Karl Marx

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

12. “Human potential
must replace God
by the year
2000”
Gloria Steinem

13. “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

14. “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

15. 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.”

16. “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