Hi folks. Just wanted to ask something. At what point do the component gametes become things that ineffably deserve a chance of life, to the point where they're supposed to be "children of God" (as I've recently had it described to me? Is it at conception? I'm just wondering, because a just conceived zygote couldn't survive birth, and surely at most is a POTENTIAL "child of God"...right? But on that logic, every sperm and every egg are also potential children of God, surely? Does that mean that every sperm and egg that is not fertilised and carried to full term go to Heaven?
If not, then what's the alternative? That the "container" of life, the physical body, begins to be made before it's invested with the spark of life? If so, then surely there should be a logical point before which termination is just getting rid of physical, and not spiritually sacrosanct, cells?
Or is the argument that God takes a personal stake in which sperm and eggs get to become human beings?
Thanks.
2007-09-01
04:05:59
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