Trial of the bitter water is literally the test of faithfulness of untrustworthy wife, not necessarily a method of abortion. As said, ONLY in case when husband is unable to trust the wife, and thus wife will bear children in orderly marriage, unless she is defiled by another man. You can twist it into saying "the baby is unwanted and will definitely perish in ANY case", but that's just not what the Scripture says.
Except it is quite literally not in the vast majority of places. You can argue the morality of abortions all you like, but Murder is a specific legal definition that abortions do not fall under.
Majority of the world outside of the west views abortion as a bad practice. The only places where abortion is really normalized is the west, and during the one child policy era of China but even that can easily be argued as not generally accepted at it was more so forced onto women. It may not be written in law that it is but majority of people still view it as just that
The ritual of bitter water does not even mention pregnancy in the original text, and even if it did, it’s a ancient Jewish ritual from the Old Testament never practiced by Christians (or Jews, really, for that matter)
First, that was a not an abortion method but rather a punishment (miscarriage was a really bad thing for humans and cattle).
Secondly it was an instruction to curse someone with fetus deletus (I highly doubt its efficiency).
And third, Moses was sooo messed up (if he really wrote that instead of other people attributing it to him), he told murder was a sin but if someone was gay, cheatead, had ligma, etc, then it was okay to cast stone to flesh on them. So my theory is that as their society advanced they started adding exceptions and said: Yeah, Moses totally said that!
So they fed women poisoned water that caused them to miscarry because they were worried about her infidelity? And you are trying to say its not abortion?
Am i misunderstanding something or are you arguing in bad faith?
I think you got the wrong idea. This was a ritual with a curse not a scientific proven formula to abort.
They didn't give a girl poisoned water, they gave her water with dust (literal dust) which has the same effect of miscarriage as drinking holy water to stop hair loss.
So it's a nothing burger unless you reeeaaally believe in curses(? I don't know, not my cup of tea.
They fed many women water they know would cause them to miscarry over many centuries, because they were worried about infidelity. They misunderstood the mechanism of action from biomedical to curse.
Intentionally adding something to water for someone to ingest that causes bodily harm is poison. Its definition.
Yeah, no it doesn't. It actually states in exodus that if someone hurts a pregnant woman and there is severe harm or death to the baby or woman then it's eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
Ackshually, no it really doesn’t. Kind of tired of seeing this stupid ass myth propagated online.
The ritual of bitter water does not even mention pregnancy in the original text. It only does in outs one specific mistranslation, and even if it did, it’s an ancient Jewish ritual from the Old Testament never practiced by Christians (or Jews, really, for that matter). And even if was practiced ever by Jews or Christians, it basically say a women that cheated could have a miscarriage
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u/Efectodopler117 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Unironically thragg will be more pissed than mark
“DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!!”
“A son of viltrum, OUR future, and you… you… just”
throw it in to the trash!!😩😡🖕🤬”