"Life" begins at conception...AMEN!
A new bumper sticker in the South:
"yo momma believed in the right to life...dahlin'!
Dr. Seuss' Horton quote:
" A person is a person ...no matter how small!"
What about the SOUL + SPIRIT parts of Man???
Stop the debate over when a fetus becomes a "person" under the US Constitution!
Isaiah 42:5
Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives "breath" to the people on it (Body/Soul)
And SPIRIT to those who walk in it,
Zechariah 12:1B
Thus declares the Lord
who stretches out the heavens,
lays the foundation of the earth, and
forms the SPIRIT of man within him,(Body/Soul)
Exodus 21
22 "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman
and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury,
the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.
23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
A Luke 1
41When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
A) Here an unborn "fetus" is referred to as a "baby".
The greek word "BREPHOS" refers to a baby, whether he/she is unborn or not.
B. Luke 2:12, the angels announce to the shepherds in the field that they will find the "baby" Jesus wrapped and lying in a manger.
The word "baby" here is "BREPHOS" again.
2) The Bible makes no distinction, and has no separate word for a baby who is UNBORN versus a baby who is BORN.
Psalm 139....For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
13 For you created my inmost being; (spirit and soul)...created in the image (spirit) and likeness (soul/character) of God
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.(body)
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; (body+soul+spirit)
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; (all knowing)
all the days ordained for me (born or unborn?) were written in your book before one of them (days) came to be.
Mark 10 (NIV)....The Little Children and Jesus
13 People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.
14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them,
“Let the little children come to me, and do not HINDER them,
for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child (simple faith and trust) will never enter it.”
16 And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.
Isaiah 49 (NIV)
5 And now the LORD says—
he who formed me in the womb
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your children gather and come to you.
As surely as I live,” declares the LORD,
“you will wear them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
John 16:21
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come;
but when her baby is born
she forgets the anguish
because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
