[MHGinTN]

Your offered reasoning does work to dehumanize the earliest ages of the individual human being's life. Why you reason that way is your problem, and I haven't accused you of drinking the Devil's koolaid ... but the Archbissect has and continues to, in my opinion.

I'm curious to know just what you are expecting from God to you that will establish your certain knowledge of how God sees life at conception?

[mcg1969]

I'm curious to know just what you are expecting from God to you that will establish your certain knowledge of how God sees life at conception?

I am not expecting Him ever to make it certain, MHGinTN. Had he chosen to make everything certain, He could have directed the authors of His Word to do so, but He did not. Indeed it seems to me that Scripture even muddies the pro-life waters somewhat (e.g., Ex. 21:22), but not insurmountably.

Nevertheless, I'm sure that he expects us to treat human life with appropriate dignity even without that complete knowledge. The last time I checked, God did not say we could obey Him only if we fully understood why first.

[mcg1969]

Your offered reasoning does work to dehumanize the earliest ages of the individual human being's life.

Not if it serves to correct the anthropomorphism of the zygote/blastocyst, it doesn't. In other words I can't dehumanize something if it is not human.

And since we don't know God's opinion on the issue, I repeat again I would expect a bit more respect from a fellow pro-lifer.