“So since the RCC position is that life begins with conception, men instead of God decide when the soul is created?”...
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God has revealed it, we can know when life begins, God creates the body and soul, at conception. And modern technology, if you don’t believe shows life begins at conception.
Psalm 51 in most Bibles and Psalm 50:7 in the Douay-Rheims Bible. This verse shows you receive your soul at conception.
Psalm 51:7
For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.
God bless you,
Psa 51:5
(5) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Good verses regarding the genetic old sin nature in the body of man.
Still doesn’t address the creation of the soul.
Previous doctrines definitely asserted God places the soul in man at birth, which also nicely explains why stillbirth may be lamentable regarding the body, but the soul may have never been placed in the body even after separation from the mother.