Posted on 12/16/2014 4:11:27 PM PST by Salvation
Life Begins in the Womb
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5, ESV) Works Cited: |
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During the Reformation [started by defrocked and excommunicated Father Martin Luther] for largely doctrinal reasons Protestants removed seven books from the Old Testament
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Sirach
Wisdom
Baruch
Tobit
Judith and
parts of two others (Daniel and Esther),
even though these books had been regarded as canonical since the beginning of Church history.
My Protestant friend, with whom I'm spending Christmas, and I examined our Bibles and discovered this eons ago. We never did know what "doctrinal reasons" made the Protestants do that. We still don't know.
Imagine, the BOOK OF WISDOM deleted from the Bible.
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I say this every day when I see the glory of God's creation: the dawn, sunset, ocean, stars, doggies...all wonders of God's creation.
“We never did know what “doctrinal reasons” made the Protestants do that. We still don’t know”
Marty Luther made that decision. He also wanted to remove Hebrews, James, Peter and Revalation from the NT. He was talked out of it.
I never knew why either.
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Our good Lord is pro-life, as He MADE life.
In His generous bounty He gave us eternal souls so we could spend eternity with Him.
God is good and He IS goodness.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”
If you define “Life” as the physical body, then yes, life begins at conception. However I define “Life” not by the physical, but by the “spirit” that manifests the physical. That spirit exists even prior to entering the womb. The zygote would not form if it were not for the presence of the spirit.
Nothing, not even an atomic bomb dropped on a person’s head can destroy the soul or spirit. But sin sure can shackle it for a long period of time.
That spirit exists even when the physical body is gone. When it departs from the body, physical life ends. Memories are not stored in the physical body. They are stored in the soul or spirit in a very specific pattern and then anchored in the physical body. Memories of life experiences exist long after the physical is gone. Since the soul or spirit manifests the physical body, wounds to the soul also harm the physical body. However, wounds to the physical body do not necessarily harm the soul. It is our conscious response to the physical harm that creates the wound in the soul. This is why Jesus asked for forgiveness for those who persecuted Him as they knew not what they were doing.
The question becomes, where does the soul exist when it releases from the physical body. That depends upon the status of the soul. My father’s mansion has many rooms but many are off limits to those who carry sin as they cannot pass through the doorway to enter the rooms.
Imagine your soul as a hot air balloon and sin is the ballast that keeps it on the ground. There are no stairs or elevators. The only way you can reach the top floor is to both let go of your ballast and reach to God to lift you up.
This is my understanding based upon my own experience of dying and returning to reconnect to my physical body... reluctantly!
While abortion is murder, we must have compassion for those who have abortions and not “judge” them. They are torturing their souls, even if they are in denial.
I’ve worked with many women who are proclaiming “pro-choice and have had abortions.” In virtually every instance, when the memory of the event is opened the wound is evident and the intense emotions flow. Our pure souls when we are born know the difference between right and wrong, not matter what we justify and proclaim intellectually.
That's beautiful! I heard someone say that no matter what we have to face in life, no matter how tough it gets, there's always something to praise God for! It's true, isn't it?
I heard someone say that no matter what we have to face in life, no matter how tough it gets, there's always something to praise God for!It's true, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
That little dot said something, though. We all start out tinier than that dot! God breathes life into us, and gives us an immortal soul that His Only Son gave up His Life to save.
Our society says that little dot doesn't matter. We know better. Any human life, whether tiny; different in how God made them; older, wise and wrinkled; or approaching the time when God calls that soul home, it is a sacred gift of God!
God bless you-and thanks for the food for thought... You post well, even when you don't try! : )
Alveeda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, speaks a great deal of her own experience in that situation. She speaks of her faith in God’s Mercy-she is eloquent, joyful, and an example to women of all walks of life!
Wow! Thank you for mentioning that! I know 2 people who have had such an experience- they both came back with such peace...
Cloudmountain, good for you and your friend! You don't let your differences separate you, and you must be able to dialogue, given that you were checking Bibles together! That's a gift, and what being a follower of Christ means! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas together!
2 Maccabees has the story of Hanukkah in it, which holiday happens to be today! Happy Hanukkah, everyone! My Mom and I used to light a manora and read the story a little each night! John Paul II described the Jews as “Our elder brothers in the Faith.”
Hey, I posted my first picture!
You said it all!
I love your tagline, by the way. That's the very line of the Tantum Ergo I love the best. Especially the two words "sensuum defectui" --- when the senses fail.
A little off-subject, but at the same time right on it: an amazing and humbling demonstration of how the senses fail. This is an optical illusion I found on Discoverymagazine:
And here's their explanation:
Blue green spiral illusion You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color. Huh?I loaded the image in Photoshop and examined the two spirals. In the two squares displayed below, the one on the left is colored using the same color from the blue spiral, and on the right using the green spiral.
...........green and blue squares..Like I said, incredible! For pedantry sake, the RGB colors in both spirals are 0, 255, 150. So they are mostly green with a solid splash of blue.
The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. In this case, the stripes are not continuous as they appear at first glance. The orange stripes dont go through the "blue" spiral, and the magenta ones dont go through the "green" one. Heres a zoom to make this more clear:
Blue green spirals zoomSee? The orange stripes go through the "green" spiral but not the "blue" one. So without us even knowing it, our brains compare that spiral to the orange stripes, forcing it to think the spiral is green. The magenta stripes make the other part of the spiral look blue, even though they are exactly the same color. If you still dont believe me, concentrate on the edges of the colored spirals. Where the green hits the magenta it looks bluer to me, and where the blue hits the orange it looks greener. Amazing.
The overall pattern is a spiral shape because our brain likes to fill in missing bits to a pattern. Even though the stripes are not the same color all the way around the spiral , the overlapping spirals makes our brain think they are. The very fact that you have to examine the picture closely to figure out any of this at all shows just how easily we can be fooled.
This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. Your eyes are not cameras faithfully taking pictures of absolute truth of all that surrounds you. They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed. Colors are not what they appear, shapes are not what they appear (that zoomed image above is square, believe it or not), objects are not what they appear.
Things are not as they appear!
And that related to my tagline...
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