In our society, adversaries argue about when a conceived child is a human being. Pro-abortion advocates deny human personhood to, what they call, the “biological material” in the mother’s womb. Pro-Life people assert that when a fertilized ovum begins to produce new cells, we have the life of a human being. I rely on Pro-Life leaders who know more than I do to speak to the secular society for the protection of life from conception to natural death.
As a simple believer, I just take the scriptures in their plain meaning. I read the text: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;”(Jeremiah 1: 4-5). I believe these words mean that our Creator loved us in His thoughts from all eternity. When the time fully comes, God breathes us into actual existence in the maternal womb.
I speak to believers only. (For unbelievers, my words would be incomprehensible.) The Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, the betrothed wife of Joseph, saying: “…You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus” (Luke 1:31). A body grows. A personal spirit -in this case, Jesus- is whole and complete from the first moment of existence. The Eternal Word existed from forever. The Word made flesh, Jesus, He had a beginning in time. The time of His beginning was at conception in Mary’s womb. That is what scripture tells me about when human life begins. The word of God in Jeremiah seems to agree. Dear Ones in Christ, do you agree?