Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:57:22 PM
The Bible is clear that God is sovereign over all things including life. Why does the church believe life begins at conception? Why is the argument over the sanctity of life limited to the beginning of physical life? Debate over this issue reveals our deficiency in Biblical Theology.
Spiritual life begins when the Spirit quickens men who are dead in their sin. It is written of these men that they are known before the creation of the world. Their persons are foreknown…
‘And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world’ [Revelation 17:8; 13:8].
This is something also known by the Old Covenant church…
‘Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them’ [Psalms 139:16].
Persons and everything about them are foreknown. If men believed this doctrine of the sovereignty of God in life, then we would honor the unborn child as an image bearer of the Creator of life and do what is necessary to preserve their life.
Where there is life there is the great potential of an image bearer of God and the hope of redemption.