Bible implies Life begins at birth. RTFM.

The Anti-Choice crowd loves swinging their Bibles with an air of superiority at people of reason.  Fills them with righteous satisfaction, bashing the enemy with the “sword of God.”  It’s a real shame they don’t actually read those same Bibles, they might actually learn something; like Jesus’s disgust with the self-righteous, like the Pharisees.

Ask one of them when Life begins, and they’ll say “At Conception!”  Why?  ”The Bible says so.”  Problem is that the Bible doesn’t say so.

Genesis 2:7 (NIV):  The LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Notice: the Breath of Life was not given while He was forming Man, but after He FORMED Man. AFTER BIRTH.  And as is implied in Romans 5:12, as it was with Adam, so it is with all mankind.

Of course, at this point the Christian apologist is crying, “But Adam was a special case. Surely that doesn’t apply to all mankind, since everyone else is formed in a uterus instead of the dust of the field. Fear not, I can rebutt that too.

Exodus 21:12-14 (NIV):  Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. However, if he does not do it intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate. But if a man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death.

Exodus 21:22 (NIV): If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely (or, from the footnotes, “she has a miscarriage”), but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.

If Life began at conception according to the Bible, then Exodus 21:12-14 would also apply to causing a miscarriage, and verse 22 would not be necessary.  From the context of Exodus 21, it appears that while an unborn child has value, the loss is not treated as a death or a killing but as a property crime.  Thou Shalt Not Kill does not apply here.

Other favorites of the hypocritical Anti-Abortion crowd:  Psalm 51 is David crying after getting caught with Bath-sheba, words from a guilt-ridden adulterer (and murderer of Uriah), not from God.  Psalm 139 is more of David waxing poetic, once again not words from God.  Jeremiah 1 is specific to Jeremiah only, not for all mankind, but then poetic license may influence this pasage as well.  Read it in context, and you will see that it DOES NOT APPLY to abortion.  Job 3 is Job’s lamentation of his losses, again read it in context.

While the Bible does not overtly state “Life begins at birth”, the evidence would certainly indicate that implication.  Christians would see that (or at least be thoroughly discussing it) if they’d actually read the Bible instead of thumping it and spouting their personal opinions as Gospel.

There are those who would bear false witness against the Word of God, which they say they believe in and guides their lives, and say “the Bible says Life begins at conception”.  According to their own beliefs, they are bound for an eternity in Hell just for the prize of a few years of political influence now.  Are they insane?  Are they hoping and praying that deliberate ignorance of the Bible will save them?  Or are they lying when they profess their belief in Christianity?

If I see them in Hell, I’ll be sure to ask them what they were thinking. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I won’t get that chance.

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