Why do the "Pro-Life" supporters believe that the soul enters the body at the moment of conception?

Question

In Genesis, it says that God blew the breathe of life into Adam, which seems to suggest that life begins when a person takes their very first breath. But anti-abortionists think it begins at the moment of conception. What is the basis for this belief?

Answer 1

In the book of Jeremiah, God spoke to him saying that He knew Jeremiah before He formed him in the womb and He santified him before he came out of the womb.

Also, when Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, saw Mary the mother of Christ, the baby inside her (John), leapt for joy and was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Pro- Lifers believe that life begins before birth.

Answer 2

It has more to do with other standards the government and environmentalists use.

*District Attornies have long been able to charge someone with muder in the death of a fetus.
*Environmentalists hold sacred the unborn off-spring of animals.

For environmentalists, it has everything to do with furthering each species. It's just interesting that many of them see "man" as a threat to animal life, so they think less about the unborn human than they do the unborn animal, particularly in the wild.

Pro-Choicers often exhibit the use of this double standard.
"We're all one with the world" works quite well until it knocks on a person's own door. Destroying an unborn child (technically, a life-form) goes against all the other things that are touted as important by liberals seeking personal freedoms at the cost of cheapening life. When evolutionists tell us that we all came from apes, so then aren't we just a high-functioning animal?

Perhaps that living soul does not become a human until the first breath is taken, but the initiation of the life-growth process begins at conception with the invasion of the egg by a sperm, and the division of that first cell into two.

I'm pro-life AND pro-choice.
Pro-Choice begins when someone says NO to premarital sex.
Pro-Life protects the unborn when someone vascilates on the above.

Answer 3

What the Bible says are the responsibilities of civil authorities in upholding justice is a point being missed by some people in the pro-life movement in particular and by the public in general. The Bible commands the civil authorities to administer justice "upon him that doeth evil" (Rom.13:4).

If Christians do not report very clearly about what the Bible says is sin, then the people will never know how to repent. "For by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom.3:20).

The Bible has always regarded abortion - killing the child in the womb as murder, a crime punishable by the death penalty. The grounds for this judgment are "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex.20:13); Child Sacrifice, "he shall surely be put to death" (Leviticus 20:1-5); and Exodus 21:22-23, where an example of abortion is found:


"If men strive, and hurt a women with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life" (Ex.21:22-23).
In Exodus 21: 22-23, the Bible

Jeremias 1:5 God knew us before we were born

Luke 1:41 John showed a reaction to the saviour while still in the womb

and Read the didace the teachings of the Jesus through the apostles it directly speaks about abortion

So that is why they believe the soul enters at conception.

Answer 4

Adam was fully grown when made - not "born" through a womb. The breath of life (the soul) that entered into Adam from the very "mouth" of God exists the moment "life" is created from the union of sperm and egg. Not because there is literal "breathing" in the sense of lungs exchanging air but because of the special cell replication of a new human being as begun with the imprinted DNA blueprint. There is actual fetal respiration taking place in the womb long before the lungs expand - just a different method. People have taken a literal "flesh" explanation (lungs expanding outside the birth canal) to explain spiritual realities which are in full existence when human life actually begins which is when DNA is unleashed to replicate from the union of sperm and egg. In the womb, the unborn infant sucks its thumb, plays with its toes, crys when in pain and screams when being tortured through abortion. The spiritual makeup of that child is complete and whole at the moment of conception but the physical development takes 9 months to catch up. You intentionally abort at any point along that continuum and you kill a soul and it should be considered murder. Preventing the union of sperm and egg is not wrong but preventing that life from developing once started is. With Adam, God showed us what takes place from the "inside out" in the womb. The "breath of life" from God's own "DNA" first then the physical "catches up."

Answer 5

No, the breathe given to Adam does not suggest that life begins when you take your first breath.
Actually, God told Jeremiah that before He was in the womb, God knew him, and proclaimed him to be a prophet.
That would suggest that life begins when the conception takes place - the first possible moment that we realize life to be present.
For God, life begins before any of us even know we have a child in our tummies.
Take your pick.
Not only is a person responsible for ending that life, but they will also be held responsible for all the decendants of that life that you made impossible to have life through that one that you aborted. Think of the numbers ........

Answer 6

if by conception you mean the second the egg is fertilized i would have to say that we do not know the exact time the soul enters the body but when ever it is it is the exact second that God breathes life into the child just as he did with Adam therefore there would be no soul splitting or combining. this is a great question and one that could be disagreed upon forever for scientist do not have the answer to when the soul enters the body

Answer 7

Well if you kill a one year old then you're committing murder. A 6 month old, even a baby that's been in the womb for 5 months. You can have an abortion only in the first trimester. But seriously now, illegal abortions are ONE DAY OVER the damn first trimester. So basically pro abortionists think that within 24 hours a baby is a choice versus a human. All I know is that your entire opinion will changes when you have a baby.

Answer 8

During the scary Public School "Sex Ed" classes, they talked about the statistics of a sperm making it's way out of the male genitals, up the vagina, and into the uterus. Then the sperm (with little or no energy left) have to find a way to break into that egg. Anyways, statistically the probability of this happening is astronomical --- so now that I understand the statistical probability of this, I'm understanding the magic of life begging at the moment of conception.

In Jer 5, the Bible says, "I knew you before you were born" --- ah, so God knew us 10,000 years ago --- Powerful stuff ... I'd warn not to go against God's plan especially since science proves what has been revealed.

Answer 9

The point is that we think life is special, and it is difficult to establish the point where it begins. Scripture tells of the Almighty YHVH "knowing" a person before they were born, so we have the sense that birth is not the magic moment. Casting about for a time before that that marks a clear transition is very difficult. Personally I don't believe it is conception, for the egg and sperm join up in the fallopian tubes. maybe implantation?

Answer 10

Adam was also made from dirt.That is why God had to blow the breath of life into him.

I would also like to say that the answers below from the pro-lifers show that they are backing their opinions up with scripture. The pro-choicers are just angry and slamming the opposing viewpoint. I would never have an abortion, because I believe that life begins at conception, but I will not tell anyone else what they believe. It is their body. Also, if the crazy fundies are in office, it is because people voted for them!