You either approach what is spirit?.. or start in with the hamina hamina hamina's like Jackie Gleason..
ALways my personal first choice.
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear -
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream -
Lingering in the golden gleam -
Life, what is it but a dream?
THE END
~Lewis Carroll
Yah, we end up with a "we know it when we see it" type of definition of life. No one objects to chopping up and recombining DNA because it hurts DNA, so that's not the life. No one really denies that the fetus from moment of inception is alive. So supporters of abortion don't have a problem killing a living fetus; no one denies that the fetus is alive. I think those that are willing to kill babies in the womb have a conception of the baby as "not human" somehow, there is some point that they haven't come to that makes the fetus human. Since the Christian knows that God knows the baby in the womb, from the moment of conception and before as a person (Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you);" the Christian sees it as an answered question . . . the secular thinker does not. Psalm 139 "You knit me together in my mother’s womb."