I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything, simply pointing out that extremely conservative evangelical leaders have held positions on abortion VERY different from the “abortion is murder” mantra one hears today and that Roe v. Wade was widely PRAISED within the evangelical community. These are simply historical facts. The murder mantra that has become “what every True Christian must believe about abortion” was not so clear to massively influential leaders like W. A. Criswell, the delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention, or two separate conferences of theologians and doctors that attempted but failed to reach a Christian consensus on the issue of abortion.
Why would that be true? Different positions on abortion are, in fact, held by folks who consider themselves thoroughly Christian. Ditto for many, many other issues that have a moral or religious dimension but about which Christians strongly disagree.
Right, just like we can find “God’s stance” on predestination, once saved always saved, eternal torment, the rapture, premillenialism, the Trinity and 300 other doctrines about which there is almost violent disagreement within “biblical Christianity.” BWAHAHAHA!
I might modify your “We can find anything we want to know there” to a more realistic “We can find anything we want to FIND there - and what we find will pretty inevitably be what we WANT to find because most of the time when we think the Bible is speaking to us we’re really just talking to ourselves.”