Twice we are told “ you do not know.” That statement is clear. The answer is also in Ecclesiastes 11:5, and all throughout the book of Ecclesiastes. We were all formed in our mother’s wombs, but at what point did that formation constitute a human life? A life that, if aborted, could conceivably be construed to have been murdered? But it still does not specify when life begins in the womb. This verse, like all Scripture, is certainly true. “You formed my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13) What then does it mean God “knit me together in my mother’s womb?Īnother thing that happens is the persistent usage of a single verse by anti-abortion activists: Yet anti-abortion adherents often tout the slogan “life begins at conception.” This would seem to support my natural suspicion that life - in the sense of conscious, cognizant human life - is not something that is present in the unborn baby until some significant period of time following conception. “As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.” (Ecclesiastes 11:5)Įxtracting the words “the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child,” there appears to be a strong suggestion - if not a direct announcement - that life enters the fetus at a time when there are already “bones” in the developing baby. Then one day, I saw Verse 5, and I soaked in its implications: I kept feeling that there was something in that particular chapter that I was supposed to see. Theatre companies accepting new works get so many submissions, I can’t expect my own work to get special attention.īut I still kept being drawn toward that chapter. Well so I did all that, and no one replied. I saw the words “cast your bread upon many waters” and figured maybe I was supposed to submit my musical to multiple theatre companies.
I kept being drawn toward Ecclesiastes 11, for some reason. So, does the Bible teach life begins at conception? So I told myself I would get off the topic.Īpparently, the Lord had other ideas.
I didn’t care to argue, especially when no one I was arguing with seemed to understand what I was saying to begin with. It’s a question of what the Bible actually says, and how its words have been manipulated on all sides of every fence in order to promote political agendas.Īnd I’d said enough. So, it’s not a question of fighting anyone’s battle here. I may be two or three of the above, but I don’t represent them. I don’t represent straight people, gay people, women, old people or children. If I had to identify with a social group aside from the body of Christ, I would say I represent the homeless people of this world. Well then, who do I represent?Īs a Christian, I certainly strive to represent Jesus Christ: his word and his truth. I suppose I could commence to fight the battle of the straight White male, but I don’t exactly feel like I represent the straight White male either. People also approached me - mostly men, by the way - telling me I was “fighting a woman’s battle” and that I should stick to fighting my own battles. I don’t want to write on this topic anymore.” Either that or they figure me for some wishy-washy dude who can’t take a solid stand. People are so caught up in this maddening anti-abortion versus abortion rights dichotomy, they seem to have to dub me one or the other.
BIBLE VERSE ABOUT LIFE BEGINNING AT CONCEPTION SERIES
This threw me off quite a bit, and the last three parts of the series dealt in different ways with the issue of abortion.Īfter the third and final time I stated my views, I thought: “I seriously doubt anyone even understands what I’m trying to express here. Wade ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court. (OPINION) A while back, something possessed me to come up with a five-part series on the state of Christendom in contemporary American culture.ĭuring the time when I was creating that series, the 1973 Roe v.
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