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lt's not a question of
whether
a human life exists, but
a question of whether the mother and her doctor have
a right to
take that life."
God has been imparted to him, just
as the physical life of a human
father has been imparted by the
sperm cell to the ovum. The truly
converted Christian, then, is
NOW
in
the state tbat compares to the em–
bryo and the fetus in the motber's
womb.
The human embryo-fetus is fed
by the human mother - protected
by her. The Bible calls the Church
of God " the mother of us all" (com–
pare Galatians 4:26 witb Hebrews
12:22-23). The function of the
Cburch is to "feed tbe flock" with
spiritual food from the Bible and to
protect those within it, "for the per–
fect ing of the sa ints ... for the
edifying of the body of Christ: till
we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, unto a perfect [full-grown,
spiritual) man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ"
(Ephesians 4:12-13). Tbe begotten
Christian must grow spiritually ,
ready to be bom a spirit being
com–
posed of spirit,
j ust as the embryo–
fetus must be fed physical food
through the mother and must grow
physically, ready to be bom a physi–
cal being, composed of matter.
When the Unborn Become
Children of Parents
The Bible says the Spirit-begotten
Christian is already the child or son
of God, even while still only an heir
- not yet an inheritor - not yet
born by the resurrection into a
spirit-composed, immortal being.
"For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they
are
[now) the
sons of God. For ye have not re–
ceived the spirit ofbondage again to
fear ; but ye have received the Spirit
of adoptíon [sonship] , whereby we
cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit [of
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God) itself beareth witness witb our
spirit, that
we are
the chi ldren of
God: and
if
children, then heirs;
beirs of God, and joint-heirs witb
Christ; if so be that we suffer with
him, that we may be also g1orified
together" (Romans 8: 14-17).
And again: "Behold, what man–
ner of love the Father hath be–
stowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons of God. ... Be1oved,
now
are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we
shall see
him
as he is" (l Jobo 3:1-
2).
The Spirit-begotten Christian is
now in the spiritual state compa–
rable to the embryo-fetal physical
state. We are now, already, the sons
of our heavenly Father.
Therefore, the unborn human is,
from the moment of conception, the
child - the son or daughter - of its
parents!
All
the human life the father and
mother shall ever impart has al–
ready been imparted. A new, physí–
cal human
LIFE
has been begotten
and is in the gestation stage toward
birth. True, it receives physical
nourishment through the mother,
but that is growth, not the imparting
of
life..
This bíblica! analogy from the
Creator and
giver of life
shows that,
though yet unbom, a human life is
growing and developing in the
uterus of the mother.
Jt
is already
the child of its parents. From the in–
stant of conception, it is
not
a ques–
tion of
whether
a human life exists,
but a question of whether the
mother and her doctor have a right
to
take that life.
Just what
is
a murder? It is the
ending of a human life
prior
to the
end of its naturallifetime. The mat–
ter of
how much
prior is relative. To
deliberately
end
that life one or two
months after it started (after con–
ception) is putting an
end
to a
human life as much as to do it ten
or eleven months after, or 50 years
after.
Biblically, in the Old Testament,
in the nation Israel, God himself or–
dered capital punishment by ston–
ing to death or otherwise, for certain
capital sins or crimes. This was not
considered murder or a violation of
the victim's right to live, under the
sixth commandment. The victim
himself had forfeited his right to live
by his own commandment-breaking.
But tbe sixth commandment _of
God denies others tbe right to take
an innocent life , and, under divine
law, guarantees tbe innocent the
right to continue living.
Unfortunately, though we may
print on
U.
S. currency,
" In
God We
Trust," U. S. lawmakers and judges
do not appear to feel obligated to
OBEY
the God
in
which they suppos–
edly "trust." But on the day ofjudg–
ment, they themselves, along with
all of us, will ourselves be judged -
by the divine laws of God!
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