When do you believe an individual gains a soul? One week, two months, nine months?
I believe life begins at conception. That flash of light that occurs shortly after the sperm fertilizes the egg. That in my opinion is the knitting together in the womb that God refers to when he says he knew you before he knit you together in the womb.
Everything after that is growth.
But not everyone agrees with me. And not every Christian agrees with me.
I think we should be preaching the Gospel for salvation. Along the way we should also teach passages such as John the Baptist leaping in the womb at the approach of Mary. And the one I referred to above about God knitting us together in the womb.
It’s fine for that preacher to stand up and say based on this I believe life starts at conception. And abortion stops a beating heart after day 22.
But when he kicks people out of the church because they don’t agree with him, or don’t agree with him yet, he makes a very poor example of pastoral care.
The literal Spark that flashes at the moment the sperm fertilizes the egg is the Spark of God signaling His creation. That clump of cells from that moment belongs to Him and we destroy it at our peril.