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Does the Bible teach that life begins at conception?



    
    

Clarify Share Report Asked July 01 2013 Mini Anonymous (via GotQuestions)

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
The Bible does teach that life begins at conception. Every culture's view of when human life begins changes as society's values, moral standards, and knowledge about the process of embryonic develo...

July 01 2013 6 responses Vote Up Share Report


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Image41 Ezekiel Kimosop Supporter
Whereas in the line of human thought life begins at conception, the Bible does show that life in God's divine omniscience was foreknown even before conception took place. God told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV) "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." How could God have known someone who was not in existence yet?

God is saying we were all in existence in his divine realm even before the union of our parents in conception. It is not therefore biblically correct to declare that life begins at conception. It begins with God's foreknowledge and this seals our place in God's divine purposes. We are not robots or soulless animals. We are God's valued possession whose existence was foreknown by God even before our conception. 
God sees beyond our limited dimensions and perfectly knew us even before we were born. Isaac was not born out of chance but through divine providence. God knew him even before his birth was prophesied to his parents.

The view that life begins at conception is therefore theologically misplaced.

July 06 2014 2 responses Vote Up Share Report


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