If Paul Wrote on the topic of Abortion

I asked ChatGPT to write a letter in the style of the apostle Paul, on the topic of abortion. Below is the prompt, followed by the letter.

PROMPT: Write a letter from the perspective of Paul just on the topic of abortion. Address those who are and aren’t Christians who endorse it.

To all who dwell in the cities and nations of the earth—whether you claim the name of Christ or walk apart from His truth—grace and peace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I write with a heavy heart, stirred by the reports of blood crying from the ground (cf. Genesis 4:10)—innocent blood, defenseless and voiceless, whose lives are cut short in the name of freedom and convenience. I speak of the lives of the unborn, knit by God in the womb, yet destroyed before their first breath.

To those outside the household of faith: I appeal not only to the law of God, which you may not yet know, but to the law written on your conscience. Does not nature itself teach you that life is precious? Even the gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law (Romans 2:14-15). Shall the hands formed by God rise up against what He is forming within? Shall the clay judge the Potter?

To those who bear the name of Christ: Have you not read that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit? And do you not know that the fruit of the womb is His reward (Psalm 127:3)? How then do some among you bless with your mouths the name of the Lord and yet withhold compassion from the least of these? If Christ dwells in you, would He ever stretch out His hand to end a life He Himself authored?

You say, “But it is a woman’s body.” Yet is not the child within her a separate soul? Is not the Lord the God of both mother and child? The Lord opens and closes the womb, and every life is called forth by His design—not by accident or mistake.

You say, “But what if the child is unwanted?” Did Christ not welcome the unwanted, the discarded, the forgotten? Who are we to determine which lives are worthy of love, protection, and care?

And to those who have done this thing, or who carry the shame of past choices, know this: The hand of Christ is not shortened, that it cannot save. Where there is repentance, there is forgiveness. Where there is sorrow, there can yet be hope. You are not beyond the reach of grace. I myself was a blasphemer and a persecutor—and yet mercy found me (1 Timothy 1:13-16). It can find you, too.

Let every believer stand as a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Let your love be without hypocrisy—hating what is evil and clinging to what is good (Romans 12:9). And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

—Paul, a servant of Christ, by the will of God