In recent years, there has been an alarming trend of government and political activists trying to co-opt religion to push far-left political agendas that directly contradict Biblical teachings, and far too many churches have gone along with it. Here’s a good example of the kind of perverted blasphemy you end up with when pastors abandon the Bible and start preaching out of the New York Times editorial page:

https://www.lifenews.com/2023/09/26/every-pastor-in-america-should-condemn-these-billboards-saying-gods-plan-includes-abortion/

A truly sick pro-abortion group is putting billboards up along highways in red states reading, “God’s plan includes abortion.” No, it does not. First of all, I’m pretty sure that if God’s plan were for you not to have children, He wouldn’t give you a child and expect you to murder it. And since I suspect that nobody involved with this grotesque organization has ever even read the Bible, here are a few quotes that make it abundantly clear that God does not view a baby in the womb as a disposable lump of tissue:

Jeremiah 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 22:9-10 – “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.”

Isaiah 49:5 – “And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—"

Isaiah 49:1 – “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”

Isaiah 44:2 – “Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.”

Isaiah 44:24 – “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself’”

Luke 1:44 – “For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”

Galatians 1:15 – “But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,”

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?”

Psalm 139:13-16 - “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Finally, there’s this verse, which doesn’t directly refer to a child in the womb, but I would strongly suggest that the people putting up those blasphemous billboards think long and hard about it:

Psalm 1:6 – “For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”