If life begins at conception?

Question

does my sperm or her egg contain the soul? Or does God sort of cram it into the fertilized egg the moment the sperm hits the jackpot?

And if you don't believe in God but do believe in the soul, please give me your take on it?

Answer 1

A soul chooses their parents long before conception. It is with the help of God and their guides that they pick their parents, for whatever reason. It's just not chance that bring parents and children together. It is something that is destined.

I had a 3 yr. old child one time tell me of events that happened years before she was born. She told me how she watched over her mommy and told me all kinds of events that the mother actually forgot happened. There reason the mother brought her to me was because she told her mother about things she shouldn't have known about. The mother thought the child was psychic.

After conception, the soul is in and out. There's no reason to be confined until they need to be. The soul joins the body for good shortly before birth or during birth. After that, they slowly begin to forget their past life.

Answer 2

Soul, never seen one, but as a humanist, I am uncomfortable about the possibility of taking a human life. This one is a person, that one isn't. I feel very uncomfortable with how this is now decided.

Spiritually based ethics are fuzzy and contradictory. Humanism is a matter of using reason to guide us in ethical decision. certainly the value of ever human life is a reasonable part of such an ethical system.

I dislike how so many treat this a closed case on both sides. This is a valid point for debate. We should find common ground and work from there.

OK, I'm not taking bets, except at long odds, but I can hope, can't I.

Answer 3

You say 'cram it into the fertilized egg' as if you have some type of idea of how big the soul is.

Answer 4

The soul is placed into the freshly fertilized egg.

Answer 5

Now that's a strange question. It seems to assume that there might be a time when a living being does not possess a soul, and that is a strange thought to me.
Consider your red-neck breeder of dogs, for instance. When his prize b#tch is pregnant, he proudly tells everyone about the pups she is expecting. There is no question in his mind...prize dog sperm+prize b#tch ovum=prize pups=$$$!!
But if it is his girlfriend who gets pregnant, he has a whole different set of morals. Now, the b#tch is carrying nothing but a "clump of cells" that need to be excised, quick....
See the math is a bit different here.
red\-neck sperm+girlfriends egg=big trouble=child support!
Throw in one pissed off red-neck wife, and WHOOO HOOO!!!!!!
(Y'all doan git ter see nuffin dat xcitin' at da dog fights!!)

Answer 6

A BABY IS A COMPLETE PACKAGE
I've never heard a woman say: "I think we may have united a sperm and egg." I have hear them say: "We're going to have a baby."
How precious is a new life--I've had the misfortune of having to pick up miscarriages and I've watched parents in agony. Trying to understand why their baby had to die. I never ever had one parent ever say--its just a fetus--They always spoke in reference of their child. Maybe if you could experience the parental feelings of loss, That could help you understand why conception is the beginning of a new life. You may already understand all this so hope this helped

Answer 7

The combination of the sperm and the egg creates a cognitive dissonance that makes it suddenly start moving and replicating and bouncing around inside the womb - when that bouncing is syncopated and rhythmic, then it has soul.

Answer 8

I believe cognitive thought is the soul, so from that standpoint: whenever that shriveled fetus thingy starts questioning the banana argument.




Edit: I realize I just inadvertently said that people who believe in the banana argument have no soul. Now I know how the guy who accidentally invented saccharin must have felt.

Answer 9

I don't believe life begins at conception, I believe it begins when a person has self-awareness. There's no way an embryo has that self-awareness.

Lol, I once had one person tell me that a sperm contains half the soul and the egg contains the other half. Which begs the question, what happens to all those half-souls that don't make it?

Answer 10

I don't know, and that's why I think we shouldn't mess about with these things. I think it's scary: we don't really know when the "thing" becomes a human, and yet it's legal to conceive and freeze them, abort them, cannibalise them for parts...anything you can imagine.

For what it's worth, after my father died one of my sisters saw him in a dream that seemed to have meaning, and he was holding his two unborn (early miscarried) babies, our siblings that never saw the light. I don't write down or attach special meaning to my own dreams, but on the other hand I'm wary of saying that someone else is wrong to do so. If you go with dreams like that (and there are plenty, apparently, that all agree), then tiny fetuses of 5 weeks' gestation go to Jesus if they die or are killed. Where the souls of the frozen babies might be, if "soul" is there during the embryo stage, I can't imagine, and it scares me to think of it.

We tend to equate soul with consciousness. I'm not equipped to go properly into the philosophy of all that. But I had a clear sense of my first baby feeling emotion (a sort of excitement or exhilaration with life, that seemed to be the same feeling he would express after he was born) when he was 12 weeks of gestation. In the months, maybe even years, after a baby is born you can recognise bits of their personality that were there before birth.