Are unborn Babies as valuable as babies who have been born in Jehovah's eyes?

Question

If so, as the bible claims that they are....Why then, do some claim that they will not be resurected or go to heaven? Is this a contradiction?

Debbie...Your logic is scary, and you make God contradict himself....If an unborn child were of less value, than one Who had taken breath,...Then it would not ba a sin to have an abortion......God breathed into hte first couple because they were fully grown on the day they were created..they didn't come from a woumb.

Answer 1

There are those who are forced by their own doctrine to make statements that contradict the Bible in other places...

By claiming that the unborn are not "souls" because they haven't breathed ignores the scriptures such as those already mentioned about the value of the unborn child.

I think, too, of the example of the unborn John the Baptist leaping for joy at the approach of the pregnant Mary.

What a tangled web they weave....

Answer 2

The Watchtower claims that unborn babies are souls but that they will not get a resurrection.

Watchtower 1969 4/1 pp. 223-224 "According to God’s view, the living embryo or fetus in the womb is considered a soul. ... Furthermore, resurrection is for persons who have lived as individuals before Jehovah. Even a child who lives for only a short time after birth has existed as a separate person. But a miscarried fetus or stillborn child, though from a Biblical standpoint considered a “soul” while it was developing, never actually lived as a separate and distinct individual. So it would appear that such situations do not fall under the resurrection provision outlined in the Bible."


Watchtower 1984 3/15 pp. 30-31 "This accords with our knowledge of resurrection in Biblical examples. Those who were resurrected evidently were brought back to life as the individuals they had been at death. That is, children who died were resurrected as children, adults as adults. (2 Kings 4:17-20, 32-37; Luke 7:12-15; 8:40-42, 49-55; John 11:38-44) Would it be reasonable to think that if a “hidden miscarriage” had occurred in Job’s case, in the New Order that microscopic embryo would be restored to his mother’s womb to continue a pregnancy of which she might have been unaware? That does not conform to what the Bible shows about the resurrection, which always involved persons who had been born and existed as separate individuals before God.—John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15."

Answer 3

Bible passages that relate to fetuses are often the object of debate among Christians.

Exodus 21:22-23 is interpreted under Christian tradition as an unequivocal assertion that the child formed in the womb is a human being, because the Greek version of the Old Testament, (which is called the Septuagint, and which contains many questionable interpretations), translates in such a way as to distinctly state that a life is to be taken in the extreme case of a "life" lost

The Hebrew, (the original and most accurate), version of Exodus 21:22-23 only explicitly mentions a monetary compensation if a premature birth is caused by violence — thus the fetus is NOT given the same status as a human. It is given the same status as a piece of property.

In Deuteronomy 32:23-26, God describes how he will commit genocide against a specific nation. Persons of all ages and both sexes, from infants to old people, will be destroyed. Presumably, fetuses would also be killed during the genocide. But they are not considered sufficiently important to be mentioned.

In Hosea 13:15-16, God claims he will have no mercy upon the people of Samaria because they changed their religious belief, and promises to rip open all of the pregnant women so as to destroy any fetuses, despite the fact that fetuses would obviously not have been involved in the selection of a new religion.

Answer 4

I think the unborn are as important to God as the born. Both are the future for the church, and for the world.

Resurrection of the unborn though? I've never heard of it.
When does God impart a soul to the individual?

If all men are born sinners, then the unborn are not sinners at all and if they have a soul, then it would immediately be in the presence of the Lord (...to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord...)

To be resurrected though, requires a living person to die first, then be raised up again... It requires life first.

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure that Leviticus gives un-born babies a monetary value that must be paid to the father if the mother is caused to miscarry due to physical injury, yet if the child is killed after being born it is the same as killing an adult and the assailant must be stoned.

Of course this contradicts the whole other bit on even unborn children having souls from conception but hey-ho, it's the Bible, cherry-picking all round. :)

Answer 6

Yes unborn babies are babies from conception, and as such are as valuable as those that have been born.
I can understand teachings that the unborn will not be resurected, because of the condition of the bodies. On the other hand them not going to heaven doesn't even make sense. Those that dies before the age of understanding, such as a baby, will most assuradly go to heaven. People who preach otherwise are trying to cause undo fear and harm and should be prevented from giving such teachings.

Answer 7

Who cares what "some" claim. God will show mercy to whoever he wants. Like it says on our dollar Bills...In God we trust...so I will leave it up to him how to handle the unborn babies who have died. One thing I am sure of is that it will be just, Kind, Loving and Merciful. By the way no where in the bible does it say they will NOT be resurrected! remember what Jesus said..."with God all things are possible"

Answer 8

If the baby has taken the breath of life it is a living soul and if its parents are living in the new earth then they will get their child when it is resurrected. I have a friend that only had one baby and she died after a few hours. She and her husband know she will be returned to them in the resurrection.

She had other children who were miscarried early on in the pregnancy...she is not expecting them back.

if God were to resurrect all the fetuses who would take care of them?
what if they were conceived and miscarried at 6 weeks?
The answer has got to be left to God.
He will bless us with happiness beyond compare in the new system of things. We will just have to wait. But keep hope for the scriptures say of that time....Jehovah is opening his hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing....ps. 145:16
In verse 13 he talks of the Kingdom that will accomplish this.
The Messianic Kingdom.

Answer 9

It says no where in the Bible that an unborn baby doesn't matter to God.

Any life matters to God and it does say that God loves them BEFORE they are born.

Some have no idea what they are talking about. ALL CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT IN THE EYE'S OF LORD. All of them, Born or unborn.

Answer 10

Yes.

Who claims they will not be resurrected or go to Heaven?

People cannot make the Bible contradict itself.