Beginning of a Life
When it comes to abortion the big question seems to be, “when does the embryo or fetus or baby become a living being?”. Some say it is at fertilization. Some say once the delivered baby breaths on its own. Others say somewhere between these 2 events.
I think we are cutting life short by billions of years, or rather infinitely. The question of when life begins is answered with the statement “I knew you”. So life starts when there is awareness of the being that lives. Note that it is not awareness IN the being but rather awareness OF the being. The next question is whose awareness is needed?
Who must be aware of a being for that being to exist or have life. Well, the One who made the being of course. The creator is the one who determines whether a being exists or not. The world in which the creator puts the being may not accept it but that does not have any bearing on whether the being exists.
In the Creator’s own words from the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament, a person is known before they are “formed” in the womb (1:5). That is long before fertilization or birth or breathing. The Creator goes on to state, “before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Now in this verse the Creator was speaking to Jeremiah. But we can safely propose that if the Creator knew Jeremiah before he was formed and appointed him a purpose before he was born, the Creator has done the same for us. We are beings that were known and consecrated before we were born. We have both awareness by our Creator and a purpose to be here.
The same is true of every life that is formed in a womb. Wait… That is wrong. Life is not formed in the womb. A body is formed in the womb and that body is meant to carry within it a life. The life to reside within that body is a product of a Creator who spoke the life into existence and Who gave the life a purpose - a purpose that makes the life a person. So back to the big question of abortion. When does life begin? Life begins with an eternal God. Life begins before a body and it begins before a choice. The choice may destroy the body but it cannot affect the Creator or the life that was intended to reside in that body. The only life affected in abortion is the life that chooses to destroy the body intended for the life that the Creator made.
So here’s another big question in abortion. Which choice would you make? Would you choose to allow the life created an opportunity to exist here on earth and fulfill her / his purpose? Or would you choose to destroy the body that life was intended to inhabit, preventing the life from fulfilling her / his purpose? After all is said and done, life, whether born or unborn, is not a matter of choice. It is a matter of purpose.