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Nope. The fifth commandment covers that one just fine.You're Bible is missing the 11th commandment too? Thou Shalt Not Abort?
At 6 weeks the arms and legs are still just "buds". Fetal development: The first trimester - MayoClinic.com
By 8 weeks the fingers are starting to form, but it is almost impossible to see on an ultrasound What your baby looks like -- 8 Weeks | BabyCenter. At 8 weeks the lower torso hasn't straighten yet and the head is still misshapen, so it still looks likes largely the same as a chicken embryo at the same stage.
What are the basic Christian teachings on this subject? I don't see much of anything in the Bible that clearly addresses this issue.
The majority of Protestants are pro-choice, as are 70% of Republicans. The majority of "main line" Protestant churches are pro-choice and the only countries I know of that have ever banned abortion are Catholic, not Protestant. So it hardly seems like a clear cut issue to me. Most Protestants disagree with you on this subject. This is not because the Bible has a clear message on the issue, it has a very ambiguous message.
The word nephesh is translated two thirds of the time as soul, one third of the time as spirit, and then there are 40 or 50 of the 750 occurances that are translated as everything from perfume to dead body. In Genesis even fish are said to have nephesh. Nephesh is not much like the clear cut distinction between soul and spirit that is put forward in the New Testament. Once the line between soul and spirit is blurred, I think it is easy to blurr the line between body and spirit, which I think is the crux of the problem here.
I'm gonna call male bovine fecal matter on this one. Please post your sources.The majority of Protestants are pro-choice, as are 70% of Republicans.
You're Bible is missing the 11th commandment too? Thou Shalt Not Abort?
Or is the 12th...with the 11th being Thou Shalt Not Be Gay...
Really, the Bible never mentions abortion and does not deal with the question of when life begins. Genesis 2:7 (God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being") refers to the specific, unique event of the creation of Adam out of the earth. It says nothing about the process of conception, pregnancy, and birth.
The Book of Exodus clearly indicates that the fetus does not have the same legal status as a person (Chapter 21:22-23).
That passage doesn't support your claim. What it literally states is that if a pregnant woman is injured which then causes her to give birth, but no further harm is done then the penalty is whatever the husband imposes. But if there is further injury, then the accused is to be sentenced to death. The passage makes no distinction between the injury or death of either the woman or the child. Some English translation mistakenly interpret the passage to be referring to miscarriage, but it is literally referring to premature birth.
This is indeed how this commandment has been understood by Christians since the very beginning. This is evidenced by the Didiche, when it says, "You shall not kill a child by abortion nor slay it when born." This is also echoed by Barnabas, word for word in his epistle. Not Scripture, of course, but early evidence that this was indeed the Christian teaching.That would be the 5th Commandment: Thou shall not murder.
Thank you for that. I have often wondered about that, and assumed as much as you have said here, but it is good to hear confirmation (and good for us to agree on something... the 2nd Coming can't be far off now, lol!)
And I just looked out my window and a pig flew by!Hey, we look for unity wherever we can!!
Look, that's three of us from different synods agreeing on something.
And Hell isn't even frozen today!!
Weather for Hell, MI
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Thanks.Prayers that you go wherever God leads you, Ed.
Fetus has no soul?
Never heard that before.
This is what I understand:
Fetus is alive.
Alive means presence of oxygen.
Fetus lives off mother's blood (oxygen).
When God breathed in Adam (oxygen), Adam became a living soul.
(NIV) Gen.2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Hebrew for 'being" is nephesh - soul)
Am I missing something here?
Thanks,
Ed
And then hit it. A lot.
Hammer, meet Nail.
And then hit it. A lot.
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