When is the exact moment life begins?

Question

According to the Bible?

Answer 1

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when your
born............................

Answer 2

The Bible says that God knew us before we were born so we can assume that to him we were alive the moment conception took place. Scientifically, all the required parts are present at conception but need to change, grow and mature before actual birth takes place. The fertilized egg is alive because it grows and changes constantly. What I think you might be asking is at what point do we set as the time when the fertilized egg becomes a human being. The answer remains the same. The difference between a full term baby and that fertilized egg is simply a matter of maturity. All the components are in place and there is no doubt that the final outcome will be a human baby. For example, if you planted a radish seed in the garden, only a radish can result. As it matures it will still be a radish. It can not suddenly turn into a carrot half way through the maturing process.

Answer 3

According to the Bible? If you were to think critically and hypothetically about this, using the Bible as a reference--life is continuous and has been so, since the beginning. Relatively speaking--the beginning of time, giving "life's" definition meaning in death. Infinitive. Although, I would tend to want to reference more viable and credible sources, personally (this is a question of faith--many people believe that the Bible is "the" reliable source, yet it has been rewritten and edited a number of times (by people))--so, it is effectively a subjective source of information (there are a number of people that would give me a negative rating because of my assertion and opinion on this topic); I would also use peered journal articles to back up my assertions.

Even with verses like: Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you." And, in Psalm 139 it only references "being knit together" by the Big G in the mother's womb...NOT referencing that life "begins" there. This doesn't imply life starting at conception but WAY before that. Its all subjective perception that could literally be argued until pigs fly.

Answer 4

The Bible isn't a good source for the definition of life as science and technology were in their infancy. Science defines human life as beginning when sperm fertilizes egg and implants in the walls of the uterus. Without implantation, there is no pregnancy or life -- the fertilized egg is simply flushed out of the body with the normal menstrual cycle.

Answer 5

Well, according to the second creation story in Genesis 2, Adam became a "living soul" just after god breathed the first breathe of life into him.

But, use that verse as an argument that fetuses are not living beings, and thus as a pro-choice argument, and you will get the proverbial "you are taking that verse out of context" reply.

Answer 6

The Bible is not a good source. It got the whole evolution of life wrong, among other things.

First, life is not well defined. There is no strict set of guidelines that says this is alive and that isn't. It is a general set of characteristics that may or may not exist in various specific cases.

Also, life doesn't begin, people and other animals do. When you are conceived, it is your parent's cells coming together mixing, and continuing to multiply. There was no non-life between the time your parents cells met and your new cells started multiplying. Therefore, you would have to say that life (as generally defined) started millions of years ago when this whole evolutionary process took off, and has been going strong ever since.

So, the real question is, when do you consider the multiplying cells of your parents to be a separate individual. Now, this question is also ambiguous. It depends on what you mean by separate individual. Obviously, the genetic make-up of the zygote is different than the parents at conception. This makes it a unique set of cells, different than either parent. However, that set of cells is still attached to the parent and cannot survive on its own. So, the cells are, in a very real way, not separate from the mother.

So, what's the answer? There is none. However, for the sake of legal definition, we have to come to an agreement on some arbitrary threshold where the laws will apply to a separate individual. We probably would have solved this issue ages ago, except that religious zealotry has taken a hard line based on their interpretation of their religious superstitions.

Answer 7

at the moment of conception- the DNA is established from the time the sperm meets the egg. The heart is beating at 3 weeks after conception- which before the mom finds out she is pregnant. Life begins from day one-inside the womb.

Answer 8

Existential Life begins once breath occurs. God breathed life into Adam and Eve. Breath is the source of life.

The Bible does not speak about biological life. However, when considered conception biological life actually occurs before conception. Because biologically speaking sperm and eggs are alive already without conception.

Answer 9

Interesting question. Unfortunately the bible doesn't address when life actually begins, because it was a mystery to the uneducated people who wrote it.

There are many Christians that say conception because it fits in nicely with the anti abortion movement that has rallied them.

It does bring up an interesting question though. If life begins at conception, because God created it at that point. Does that mean he intends for babies to get malformations? Did God intend for babies to be conceived, even though he knows the parents live in a refugee camp and cannot find food? Did he create them at conception so that he could watch them starve to death, while his 'children' spend millions of dollars on realestate and church buildings?

Just wondering?

Answer 10

i personally do not beleive that a life has a beginning, nor an end. the sperm & egg are alive, so technically all life is already begun. i know it's not according to the bible, but i thought it was an interesting question--i hope you don't mind me tossing in my 2 cents.

:)

Answer 11

I'm not so sure that the Bible states specifically when life begins, but from reading Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.", I would think it would be safe to assume that life begins at conception.

God bless,
Stanbo