[Hardastarboard]

The statement that a new human life begins with conception is biologically true but not true according to anyone who actually believes in the existence of an immortal soul. If one believes in an immortal soul then a new human life begins the first moment that an immortal soul exists within a human body.

Good article, but the author gets twisted inside out on his own logic here. If you believe in an immortal soul, the soul existed BEFORE the cells combined to start a new life. If you destroy the cells, you destroy the avenue by which the soul would have come into the world. Duh.

[Sherman Logan]

If you believe in an immortal soul, the soul existed BEFORE the cells combined to start a new life.

So for a soul to be immortal it has always existed? I don't think that is Christian doctrine. Sounds more like some sort of Eastern reincarnation dogma. Or possibly Scientology or Mormon.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“If you believe in an immortal soul, the soul existed BEFORE the cells combined to start a new life.”

You’re confusing immortal with eternal essentially. A baby’s soul is immortal, but it starts when the life of the baby starts (at conception). There is no sould before there is a physical body to house it (for lack of a better way to put it).

[J. Neil Schulman]

Destroying the avenue by which a soul would have come into the world may well cause the ref to impose a penalty and hand the ball to the other team.