Our pastor preached on this awhile ago. Christianity is the ONLY religion that says that life begins at conception. I found that amazing, and had to search the interwebs to see if he was correct.
He is. I forget the numbers, but Islam, depending on which “teacher” one follows it has a range from something like 20 to 40 days. Other religions (and teachers within the religions) have different periods of time as well for when the spirit/soul enters the embryo.
And even BEFORE we were conceived:
Psalm 139:16
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
“Christianity is the ONLY religion that says that life begins at conception.”
Yet, there are many on this forum who are adamant about wanting a Hindu in the White House — Gabbard, Ramaswamy, JD Vance’s wife.
We just completed a study of Ishmael in Genesis. As you may recall, he was not the seed of promise, but was born of the slave from Egypt. The mother of Ismael caused so much heart-ache in the household Sarah finally threw her and her son out. She was on her way to Egypt when God found her and told her to go back and submit to the barren wife of Adam. God did this even as he knew “- “And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren. (Gen. 16:12)” God knew the problems this child would bring to His people, and all He had to was nothing and the entire race would never exist. But God could not permit this unborn child to die at His (and Abram’s) and, so he saved Ismael from certain death - even as he was still in his mother’s womb.
This is God’s answer to ending a child’s life - even while it is still unborn. There is no reason - ever - to end the life of an unborn innocent child. But God went even further. He was again saved (protected) Ismael’s life as a teenager when he was once again thrown out of the house of Abram. Once again, they were on the way to Egypt when an angle of God found them and provided food for the journey. God does not take innocent life - - - and neither should we.